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I have joined numerous social networks and left them numerous times through the years. Some have served me ‘adequately’ and others not so. Now realizing just how destructive the Internet and the growth of ‘Almost Intelligent’ combine is and their associated power hungry server farms are I struggle to remain connected socially at all. Every time I post, type, search, read my Kindle or draw on my iPad I am increasing my digital and carbon footprint contributing to the further destruction of the planet. I feel 90+ percent of Internet content is drivel. What I post doesn’t add up to a hill of beans in the scheme of things and who cares.

I am worn out with the bombardment of asinine adverts targeting the ignorant and those arrogant influencers who think they know everything. Capitalism and big tech have ruined something that had great potential. And the question is:

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#Social Media #Internet #Digital Footprint #Carbon Footprint #Influencers #Capitalism

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Bye Bye Zuckergram


Looked up some articles about IG alternatives. This author suggests an app called Twitter. WTH? Where has she been? petapixel.com/best-instagram-a…

Another article suggested “Flashes” which requires Bluesky acct. Tried Bluesky a while back and felt like I drifted back to the old twitter so deleted.

Most articles mention Pixelfed and its associated apps. I have both a Pixelfed.social and gram.social acct.

Most of the alternatives are subscription based or add funded which I think most social networks are going to go to to keep things in balance. Free Internet is slowly disappearing for various reasons. The current fascist take over of the USerland government is accelerating the movement. I am moving to a more secure subscription based email. You pay for what you get, hopefully.

So happy that Openspace is back online. The best add supported social network out there.

#Openspace #Mastodon #Pixelfed #GramSocial #Flashes #Bluesky #Instagram #Internet #SocialNetwork #Subscription #Free