UK pushes one step forward to a dystopian world of showing to nearly everyone your ID anywhere where user uploaded content may be.

Worst they would do is allow some specific Giga-corporation app which is known to selling user data to verify your age… oh…

And guess what? You can’t use Wallet on custom Android. So now you should have a phone which Google approves. Or potentially do facial recognition, or show your credit card, or show your bank account. Nobody would ever-ever do anything bad with your PII.

If you think that you are OK with mass-servelilance this post for you.

https://hate.tg/

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Social Media is a dystopian hell machine. It’s bad for your privacy and health. Don’t use it.

By using minimalism/essentialism practices we can mitigate it and its problems.

• Remove any social media accounts if possible
• Use RSS to get posts from blogs/channels/community…
• Setup XMPP/Matrix bridge with your friends/work group chats
• Move to secure messenger (XMPP)
• If you have to use social media, keep it minimal:
  • Define what you need from social media (e.g. yt video development - you need to post new videos and answer comments)
  • Disable notifications
  • Disable any unnecesarry for your needs features (like feed, stories, channels, group chats…)
  • Make sure it does only what you need from it and nothing more that may lure you to do what you don’t want to (e.g. scroll videos)
  • Create separate account
  • Create separate phone profile/user to use social media
  • Use DnD (Do not Distrube)
  • Use more private alternative (youtube -> invidious)

WhyNot Social Media?

Introducing you “WhyNot” - big posts with mostly my antiutopic thoughts on topic

# Privacy

Nowadays if you got asked:

“Can I have your Facebook account?”

is a fancy way of saying:

“Can I get access to information about all people you are relate to, all your interest (profession, hobbies, music…), your home location and how you live your life, pretty please? OwO”

Oh wait, you even don’t need anything to share with other people! Fancy algorithms will determine it by what you like, watch and search (tiktok, instagram…) and then use it to get maximum profit out of you as a consumer.