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It's now been six weeks since I started writing thoseย Buy Europeanย bulletins. And now,ย withย Meta's frankly infantile reactionย to the fine issued by the European Commission over their breaching of the Digital Markets Act, the time has come to tackle their services directly. Today, weโ€™re learning how to leave Meta, how to leave Facebook, how to leave Instagram, and ultimately, how to leave a toxic relationship that, for many, has brought nothing but misery andย decay.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago

Facebook has always been evil. Buying its rivals and renaming itself Meta only increased the spread of its evil.

Using their poison hurts your mental health. Allowing Facebook access to your personal life exposes you and your loved ones to their manipulation. The sooner everyone walks away, the better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Instead of Facebook use Friendica!

Instead of Instagram use Pixelfed!

Instead of Marketplace use Flohmarkt!

Instead of WhatsApp use Matrix!

Instead of Rapid use JOSM!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank you for that list. A link would have helped me to find the things I don't know yet, such as Flohmarkt -i assume you mean this https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt ?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yup, that's the source code of Flohmarkt! There's also a lemmy community for it at [email protected]

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would really like to shift to pixelfed but the transfer option (to import all your instagram posts) has been inoperable for a while now. I hope they get it fixed soon.

[โ€“] taladar 7 points 2 weeks ago

If I had to guess I would assume Meta breaks that one as often as it can deliberately.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

None of these Apps have been problematic to leave. Itโ€™s WhatsApp I canโ€™t get away from.

The only thing I can do is to continue trying to convince the roughly 20 people I actually care about to switch. So far no one cares enough.

Fuck. All of them with a Twitter account fled that platform when Musk made the Nazi salute. So Iโ€™m counting on the Lizard Robot to do the same.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It's FB Messenger for me. If I could move some people over to Signal I'd be golden, but alas. In many ways I'd prefer to just leave all the Messenger group chats behind and move on, but too many people I care about don't care to get away.