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Owned by right wing billionaire fascist supporters and/or welcoming to fascists: X Instagram Facebook Threads WhatsApp TikTok Substack Plan your exit strategies if you haven't already.

Some alternatives: Bluesky (Blacksky and its other servers if you don't trust Bluesky's moderation) Mastodon (yes, I know, but still) Buttondown, Ghost, Beehiiv Signal Your own blog/website!

IMO, the biggest points of vulnerability here are X, Instagram, and Substack. X because it's the most egregious and evil of them all. No one should be posting there. IG because so many progressive groups rely on it, sometimes exclusively, and it's gonna bury them all soon. Gotta build here, y'all!

And Substack because it has a history of platforming Nazis and promoting horrible right wing creeps, and yet a huge number of progressives rely on it.

I try not to share direct links to people's Substacks because I don't like sending people to a platform that might push them to read right wing bullshit fascists.

Please note that this isn't primarily about ethical purity. This is about protecting your actual effectiveness and reach. The platforms I'm warning you about are either already killing the reach of progressives or very liable to. If you're not a fascist, you need to find alternatives.

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X in particular is irredeemable also because it's deeply unsafe. It serves as a harassment vector. Get off.