Lol it was the other way around... I actually added a word instead. Fixed
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Fixed it, thanks for flagging
Nice, thanks. Your site is really clean. Dig it.
Glad you like it.
And yeah, it's foundational. We tolerate things digitally that we'd never tolerate in person.
Once I start connecting and analogizing digital to physical concepts in a conversation, it appears to "click" in their heads and they end up saying something along the lines of, "You're right. It makes sense."
Hence this project. I hope people can use this website and link it to people who need it to understand how this affects us all—now, not in the future.
Not the first time facial recognition tech has been misused, and certainly won't be the last. The UK in particular has caught a lotta flak around this.
We seem to have a hard time connecting the digital world to the physical world and realizing just how interwoven they are at this point.
Therefore, I made an open source website called idcaboutprivacy to demonstrate the importance—and dangers—of tech like this.
It's a list of news articles that demonstrate real-life situations where people are impacted.
If you wanna contribute to the project, please do. I made it simple enough to where you don't need to know Git or anything advanced to contribute to it. (I don't even really know Git.)
You prolly could too, if only you bathed in the waters of Lake Minnetonka...
That's nice of you, but it appears that the ad-supported business model doesn't work. It just results in enshittification and surveillance.
"We cannot have a society in which, if two people wish to communicate, the only way that it can happen is if it's financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them."
We gonna see a GoldeneOS?
Cases like these are why this extension exists: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/
Nonprofit news organizations. The Markup has a very public-interest technology approach, and is most well-known for it's Blacklight tool.
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What is this product, and what does it do?
Reddit Account Manager allows you to keep track of all of your accounts, subreddit subscriptions, and bookmarks—all in one place.
How does this product help me?
Reddit Account Manager acts as a database repository for your Reddit accounts, so that if and when you decide to delete your Reddit account, you have your accounts, subscriptions, and bookmarks all in one place. With Reddit Account Manager, you'll:
- Know exactly when you created every account
- Know how much post/comment karma each account has
- Know when it's time to delete an account
- Have all your subscriptions mapped out and ready to go for the next account you create
- Save all your bookmarks, even if your accounts are long gone
- Know when an account is active, deleted, or not created yet
Why did you build this product?
Despite many Redditors' desires to delete their account and start a new one, many refrain from doing so for multiple reasons. Reasons include (but are not limited to):
- Losing track of the subreddits they're subscribed to
- Losing bookmarks
- Lack of data export functionality from Reddit
- Time and effort in switching (and ditching) accounts
Why have multiple Reddit accounts, and why would I want to delete them periodically?
All of your Reddit activity is public. Over time, you become increasingly identifiable. By having multiple Reddit accounts designated to specific subreddits/interests, and deleting them after some time, you:
- Maintain pseudo-anonymity
- Subscribe to different subreddits across different accounts
- Keep a low profile and mix up data
Which platform do I need to use Reddit Account Manager?
You can use it out-of-the-box with any the following:
- Airtable
- Baserow
- Notion
- Coda
- ClickUp
Can I use this to store or migrate my Reddit data now that Reddit has killed third-party apps?
Absolutely, yep. You can (and should) use it however it works best for you.
Why did you make it free?
We all deserve privacy and to not be tracked all over the web. I knew this could bring value to every single Reddit user who wants to delete their account, start a new one, or simply keep track of everything you want to, so that if you ever do want to destroy your account, you'll be able to without worrying about losing track of it all.
And Reddit's recent decisions, Reddit Account Manager serves as a great tool to export your data and take it with you wherever you go next.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5935182
What is this product, and what does it do?
Reddit Account Manager allows you to keep track of all of your accounts, subreddit subscriptions, and bookmarks—all in one place.
How does this product help me?
Reddit Account Manager acts as a database repository for your Reddit accounts, so that if and when you decide to delete your Reddit account, you have your accounts, subscriptions, and bookmarks all in one place. With Reddit Account Manager, you'll:
- Know exactly when you created every account
- Know how much post/comment karma each account has
- Know when it's time to delete an account
- Have all your subscriptions mapped out and ready to go for the next account you create
- Save all your bookmarks, even if your accounts are long gone
- Know when an account is active, deleted, or not created yet
Why did you build this product?
Despite many Redditors' desires to delete their account and start a new one, many refrain from doing so for multiple reasons. Reasons include (but are not limited to):
- Losing track of the subreddits they're subscribed to
- Losing bookmarks
- Lack of data export functionality from Reddit
- Time and effort in switching (and ditching) accounts
Why have multiple Reddit accounts, and why would I want to delete them periodically?
All of your Reddit activity is public. Over time, you become increasingly identifiable. By having multiple Reddit accounts designated to specific subreddits/interests, and deleting them after some time, you:
- Maintain pseudo-anonymity
- Subscribe to different subreddits across different accounts
- Keep a low profile and mix up data
Which platform do I need to use Reddit Account Manager?
You can use it out-of-the-box with any the following:
- Airtable
- Baserow
- Notion
- Coda
- ClickUp
Can I use this to store or migrate my Reddit data now that Reddit has killed third-party apps?
Absolutely, yep. You can (and should) use it however it works best for you.
Why did you make it free?
We all deserve privacy and to not be tracked all over the web. I knew this could bring value to every single Reddit user who wants to delete their account, start a new one, or simply keep track of everything you want to, so that if you ever do want to destroy your account, you'll be able to without worrying about losing track of it all.
And Reddit's recent decisions, Reddit Account Manager serves as a great tool to export your data and take it with you wherever you go next.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5935182
What is this product, and what does it do?
Reddit Account Manager allows you to keep track of all of your accounts, subreddit subscriptions, and bookmarks—all in one place.
How does this product help me?
Reddit Account Manager acts as a database repository for your Reddit accounts, so that if and when you decide to delete your Reddit account, you have your accounts, subscriptions, and bookmarks all in one place. With Reddit Account Manager, you'll:
- Know exactly when you created every account
- Know how much post/comment karma each account has
- Know when it's time to delete an account
- Have all your subscriptions mapped out and ready to go for the next account you create
- Save all your bookmarks, even if your accounts are long gone
- Know when an account is active, deleted, or not created yet
Why did you build this product?
Despite many Redditors' desires to delete their account and start a new one, many refrain from doing so for multiple reasons. Reasons include (but are not limited to):
- Losing track of the subreddits they're subscribed to
- Losing bookmarks
- Lack of data export functionality from Reddit
- Time and effort in switching (and ditching) accounts
Why have multiple Reddit accounts, and why would I want to delete them periodically?
All of your Reddit activity is public. Over time, you become increasingly identifiable. By having multiple Reddit accounts designated to specific subreddits/interests, and deleting them after some time, you:
- Maintain pseudo-anonymity
- Subscribe to different subreddits across different accounts
- Keep a low profile and mix up data
Which platform do I need to use Reddit Account Manager?
You can use it out-of-the-box with any the following:
- Airtable
- Baserow
- Notion
- Coda
- ClickUp
Can I use this to store or migrate my Reddit data now that Reddit has killed third-party apps?
Absolutely, yep. You can (and should) use it however it works best for you.
Why did you make it free?
We all deserve privacy and to not be tracked all over the web. I knew this could bring value to every single Reddit user who wants to delete their account, start a new one, or simply keep track of everything you want to, so that if you ever do want to destroy your account, you'll be able to without worrying about losing track of it all.
And Reddit's recent decisions, Reddit Account Manager serves as a great tool to export your data and take it with you wherever you go next.
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What is this product, and what does it do?
Reddit Account Manager allows you to keep track of all of your accounts, subreddit subscriptions, and bookmarks—all in one place.
How does this product help me?
Reddit Account Manager acts as a database repository for your Reddit accounts, so that if and when you decide to delete your Reddit account, you have your accounts, subscriptions, and bookmarks all in one place. With Reddit Account Manager, you'll:
- Know exactly when you created every account
- Know how much post/comment karma each account has
- Know when it's time to delete an account
- Have all your subscriptions mapped out and ready to go for the next account you create
- Save all your bookmarks, even if your accounts are long gone
- Know when an account is active, deleted, or not created yet
Why did you build this product?
Despite many Redditors' desires to delete their account and start a new one, many refrain from doing so for multiple reasons. Reasons include (but are not limited to):
- Losing track of the subreddits they're subscribed to
- Losing bookmarks
- Lack of data export functionality from Reddit
- Time and effort in switching (and ditching) accounts
Why have multiple Reddit accounts, and why would I want to delete them periodically?
All of your Reddit activity is public. Over time, you become increasingly identifiable. By having multiple Reddit accounts designated to specific subreddits/interests, and deleting them after some time, you:
- Maintain pseudo-anonymity
- Subscribe to different subreddits across different accounts
- Keep a low profile and mix up data
Which platform do I need to use Reddit Account Manager?
You can use it out-of-the-box with any the following:
- Airtable
- Baserow
- Notion
- Coda
- ClickUp
Can I use this to store or migrate my Reddit data now that Reddit has killed third-party apps?
Absolutely, yep. You can (and should) use it however it works best for you.
Why did you make it free?
We all deserve privacy and to not be tracked all over the web. I knew this could bring value to every single Reddit user who wants to delete their account, start a new one, or simply keep track of everything you want to, so that if you ever do want to destroy your account, you'll be able to without worrying about losing track of it all.
And given Reddit's recent controversial decisions, Reddit Account Manager serves as a great tool to export your data and take it with you wherever you go next.
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Am I the only one experiencing this error when checking for notifications? Any idea why this is happening and a possible fix?
Felt this belonged here.
Thoughts and takeaways, plus 3 viable solutions:
Thoughts
1️⃣ I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Enshittification might be a good thing. Here's why
I don’t “like” that things have gotten this bad, but I do like that the worse things get, the more we can collectively organize and pressure reform to fix these things.
2️⃣ These tests are usually run on relatively small subsets of the user base. Remember when they rolled out hiding likes? That was rolled out periodically as well.
They typically also run different types of user bases. They already know the hardcore "influencers" and people who have built a public following will never leave the platform, since they're too invested already, and are the people/publications that contribute the most to network effects. I.e., you're on there because they're on there.
3️⃣ Remember when Tim Kendall (former executive at Facebook) says that they talked about Zuckerberg having ultimate control over these 3 distinct goals?
That's what's happening here—this is dial #3 being turned up.
Solutions
1. The most obvious: Delete your account
I know, I know—network effects are tough to break.
Tell your friends and family to delete theirs. Make yourself unreachable on Facebook-owned platforms.
Most people are posting less as traditional posts, and more as stories. If stories is your thing, Signal has stories. This is a really secure, private, and still convenient way to share whatever you want throughout the day.
If your favorite restaurant changes your dish's recipe, you'd prolly stop going, right? Well, that recipe's been changing, and we continue to put up with it despite an increasingly worse product.
2. For those looking for an alternative: Use Pixelfed
It doesn't have nearly the same type of content or user base size that Instagram does. But the same way that we built Facebook little by little, the same can be done for healthier alternative platforms.
This might also help your reduction in using social media, if you're looking for that.
3. For those who can't/will never leave Instagram: Use an open source native mobile app (Android-specific)
If you have an Android-based mobile operating system, there are apps like MyInsta and Instander that give you a native Instagram experience while blocking all of the ads.
They also have app-specific settings that allow you to customize your Instagram experience even further, such as (but limited to):
I run a basketball media outlet (InThePaintCrew) and a lifestyle/photography page (LifeViaChicago), and being able to modify the experience to remove the noise/clutter when a native Instagram app is needed is helpful.