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John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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Maybe this will actually make you ever so slightly less valuable to meta in the short term (presuming they honor your choices for these settings), but they’re still going to continue harvesting your data and can change their minds at any point in the future. Only way to truly become less valuable is to disappear from their gaze.
Tweaking a couple settings is a pretty tame way to fight Meta.
Organise a move from Meta/FB/Insta to the fediverse together with your folks, and close the accounts. This way you don't loose important contacts during the move, and Meta loose more users.
Or only post nonsense and AI slop.
Isn't that just their regular content?