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Yep, no more headsets from this company for me.

I’ve been wanting to leave FB for a long time, but my disability support groups are literally a lifeline. These groups have thousands of people that would need to move, and it really doesn’t seem like there are good user-friendly alternatives.

I'm running out of SM sites to quit. Who owns Youtube?

Getting rid of what's app and messenger will be tough but canceled threads, and I'm doing my Facebook account of 15ish years on the 20th. I hope it has more of an effect then. Also, I am in the process of swapping to brave and pulling all my google Docs and cloud items.

I'd been putting it off out of laziness and reluctance to cut the last ties I had to various people, so thank you for the umpteenth push that finally pushed me over the edge for deleting FB!

I still have a Quest 2 that I purchased multiple years ago, but at this point I just use it for virtual desktop to my PC and play steamvr games. I play nothing native on quest.

I was considering a Quest so this gives me a good reason not to go with them.

That's hard to do for me as there's an account called Spooked_memes_v5 that's REALLY funny

An ally just for the vibes, specifically.

Also, I spend a lot of the year overseas and I get how enmeshed WhatsApp is. I’ve also persuaded a lot of people to start using Signal.

Everyone was complaining about how politicians weren't doing enough to stop fascism, now when they have a chance to do something it's nothing but excuses 🙄

Just deleted Threads & Insta. Fuck Zuck.

Yeah, we live in harsh times. It’s only going to get more so.

To make it clear, I have zero activity on the platform in the last decade. But my mom loves to post her pictures there. It took her years to get comfortable with fb. As much as she cares for LGBT+ crowds, she's not going to ditch fb for bluesky or anything that is not a 1:1 copy of fb.

Looking forward to another round of "I Just Cant Quit The Shitty Chicken Sandwich, Please Understand" except about insta

I’ve started moving my stuff to MeWe as a Facebook replacement.

I was going to be talking with my parents in the next few days about getting them off there, but before I could even reach out, my dad e-mailed me asking about setting up an account/feeds on bluesky. He's looking to get alternative contacts sorted out with friends/family and drop facebook entirely.

I’d post the steps but the character limit won’t let me lol

You can find info here: www.facebook.com/help/1701730...

This. Look I get it we all wanna leave, I deleted my own original account back in 2017. However, I do have a small account I don't use to post but it's 100% necessary as a parent. My kid's school groups, district updates, it's ALL there, often in private groups.

I don't really care about Facebook or Insta, but in many parts of the world (not including the US, I guess), dropping WhatsApp is practically impossible. It's like forgoing, say, email. Would be *real* nice to see a non-Meta based alternative become a real option, though.

Yeah, I wish very much that complete f*ckwads didn't own nearly every social media platform and roll over for bigotry and fascism. Can has BSkyBook plz?

Been about a decade fb/meta free, for me. The hardest part is losing contact with that wider circle of people who are not in your daily orbit. But do I really need to know which HS classmates have gone full MAGA? For anyone else, my cell # hasn't changed in decades. They know where to find me.

Only reason I am still on there is fire response coordination at this point

Just deleted it a few hours ago. I've only used it a few times to buy or sell used items. I hated using it even before all this bullshit.

I'm beginning my transition off the platforms. It'll take a while.

Just like they didn’t dismantle DEI overnight and it has been worked on extensively. Unfortunately it is not realistic that every lgbtqia + individual and ally is going to drop meta overnight. Now is not the time to pitting our own community and allies against each other we must maintain presence.

That's really unfair. Many people are on Facebook specifically for support groups, rare illness groups etc. Call me an asshole if you want, but my cancer support group is there. Until those groups can be replicated elsewhere I am keeping my account.

10 days and counting till the Trans-fere so all around us those sad little shabby owners of Social meta, x Media are busy busy getting ready to allow Anything goes team over throw the planet. 'Fall in line, stand by your bunkers (nuclear) and await Captian sensible to take over you and the World

Boohoo

Going to have to move my remaining chats off of messenger, this is a full on assault on minorities.

i'm torn on this, i want to leave in protest but i also want to stay out of spite. driving queers out of public life into the shadows again is what they want and leaving kinda feels like capitulating to that? idk

And meta has told us multiple ways just this week that, yes, they really do mean to cause harm. I have left all meta products.

I’ve given friends and family who only connect to me on FB until Monday to either follow me here, or hit me on Telegram. Come Monday, I’m nuking the account.

I guess the way out of whatsapp is going back to using a smartphone as a telephone. Call once again the mechanic, locksmith, propane delivery, dentist... all that from last week.

You’re going to be calling a LOT of people assholes. And they’ll deserve it. I hope they learn from it.

Doll went to talk to one of its friends, who is one of those instagram hot girls (shes also trans) and doll asked if she was going to be moving away from meta and she became quite belligerent with doll. We are so cooked.

The biggest barrier for me when I left was specific community groups. Yes, some ppl are FB/Insta-only contacts, but that was the minority by far.

Oh, I'm 100% on discord! Just .. no one else will move there. The only friends on it were already on it, everyone else is just digging their heels in and it's so frustrating. "Oh, I don't want to try something new. Oh, I don't like 'twitter.'" And such..

happen to have another helpful link for instagram?

Thank you for this! I've wanted to delete fb for YEARS! But I've kept it for messenger to connect with family in other countries. Now I know I can deactivate fb but still use messenger. Not perfect but a start.

It'll take me some time, I fallow allot of cool artists and cosplayers over on Insta, especially a ton of cool LGBTQ creators. I want to at least be able to fallow them on other platforms before pulling the plug.

My goal is to cut the cord by 1/20.

Of course because that's all you think about

I have a charity project that I currently need to keep FB access for but I'm going to ditch my personal account and messenger, threads and insta. WhatsApp will be a bit harder but I'm working on it. I totally agree that no good ally can continue supporting Meta.