cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/25911857
I remember what made me quit facebook, way before it became Meta: the TV serie Person of interest. It gave me a big awarness of the scale of mass surveillance. I already had the project to quit because of Zuck’s shenanigans and the lack of interest i had in the platform, but this was the last straw for me.
My last straw was Reddit. By then I already left Facebook, and I was never engaged with Twitter due to the format.
I’ll try to keep it short: years ago I told a self-identified Nazi to kill himself, and got suspended for “multiple, repeated violations of the content policy”. The ban applied to 3/4 of my accounts but not to the one I used to moderate a small subreddit; Reddit was saying “we don’t want you here except when you work for free like a sucker”.
Eventually I hopped into Lemmy, and lurked for a few years while only creating trolling accounts in Reddit, to ruin the place from the inside. Then the APIcalypse happened, and I finally got enough content in Lemmy to interact with it.