handle Trump's genitals.

There are alternatives and the support of abject evil is a stain on your very soul. Be better. Be free.

It is very convenient...

Although I've been very against most social media for years.

Do you watch commercial TV where any of the above hawk their products and services?
Do you buy products packaged in plastic? Do you have any dealings at all with businesses or corporations owned by billionaires?
People living in glass houses should not throw rocks. The vast majorityof the United States population lives in glass houses.

Of course folks buy stuff from capitalist companies, drive their car around to support their life, etc. Back in the day, some of my friends decided to live on the land rather than work for the man. That lasted about six months. We live in a monopolistic capitalist country. We are the recipients of a terrible health care system, declining career opportunities, a housing policy that squeezes folks into homelessness, etc. etc. We resist as best we can. Folks that contribute to this forum are not the problem.

Once I complete some more hyper inflation preps, amazon will be in my rear view also.

I'd like some help with this

but that's owned by meta who owns fb too.
then there's bluesky but it's nothing like facebook

that's all i got. hopefully someone else has a better answer for you

to create a community and further our learning. I don't see Instagram or Bluesky providing the same kind of platform.
I admit I don't do any of it on my own--don't know how anyone has the time
But I'd like to participate in some of these groups without supporting Nazis.

Easy to switch from Twiiter/x for Bluesky
So easy not to buy a Tesla
Don't know what replaces Instagram or Facebook.
Apparently there are replacements for Google, just have to do the research and make the change
Getting off of Amazon entirely (and related companies like Abe Books) has been difficult for me. What have people done instead?

Unless there is a concerted movement and help for consumers only the most dedicated and the most tech-savvy will do it. Not enough to create the impact necessary. We need to do to all these oligarchs what is happening to Tesla. It needs to be very expensive to be a pro-Trump oligarch.

...and other places, as bad as they are.

Using Facebook means you hand over your data, snippets of your life. And what's worse, you help them suck up the data of your friends and family even when we are not on facebook or minimize participation. It's all good for the data brokers.

Like the saying goes, if it's "free," you're the product.

I personally don't know of anything, but that doesn't they don't exist, I just haven't come across it yet.

has over 16,000 comments.

Of when every tom dick and Harry on the right was claiming they were being 'shadow banned'

Oh my.

In case you aren’t familiar with her, Richardson is an eminent historian and anything but a whiner or grandstander.

In my feed, I saw her post claiming that some of her posts were no longer showing on her page. I went to her page and sure enough, the last post listed there was from March 26, I scrolled down and tried to figure out if there was an "innocent" explanation.

I don't see HCR making shit up about this. I saw her post today in my feed (I think the post was from today, but god knows that FB feed is pretty weird already about what shows up from what dates); and then couldn't find her latest posts on her page - posts that I *KNOW* I had seen in my feed before.

So it is possible - and if you watched her live episode today I think she suggested the same - that there is just something weird and unintentional going on with FB. BUT meanwhile, she is letting people know they can always find her stuff at substack. Given what we already know about Zuck, I'm headed over to substack shortly myself.

and multiple reposts.

There needs to be a big public whining fest. Media personalities need to pick it up and run with the zuckership label. "silencing liberal voices" should be on the lips of every account, influencer and talk show etc.

For being a bunch of talent-less hacks they do drama so much better than we do.

I signed up for Facebook and never posted.

They sent me an e-mail that if I did not upload my photo, I would be banned.

I did not for privacy reasons and I was undergoing chemotherapy at the time.

Flowers, critters and other such things. I still get goons who ask to be friends because I look so nice in my photo. I block them of course.

And have never been 'requested' or 'suggested' over the issue either.

is my lovely iguana, Fluffy, and always has been. I stay on Facebook because there are interest groups I am part of, and friends I have made in those groups.

Didn't know that they asked for so much info, put off looking into providing the responses as I was in the middle of a working day at the time. In 30 minutes got a banned notice.

I only wanted to follow one local site that essentially provides the local news in my teeny tiny rural town.

Just type in your email address in her subscription box here:
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

Glad you shared it so I didn't have to.

Those that say I shouldn’t be on it anymore…I’m on DU. It’s my homepage. I get HCR’s emails and forward them to my spouse who is not on social media.
I am not on Twitter, IG, TikTok, Snapchat, WhatsApp or blue sky…etc.
I live 2k miles from my family and have lived further away so it’s the platform we use to keep in touch. Not changing that anytime soon.

after that is gone. I have no idea how Facebook works, but the inconsistency is bizarre. Some people see all the recent posts, but I do not.

From out of the blue. Never happened b4. I’ve had to block 1/2 dozen of them.

Seems to work fairly well, if used judiciously when he has something important to share like Heather Cox Richardson or Hartman.

I wouldn't be surviving without them. This is the link to subscribe to her daily newsletter. Historian who gives commentary on current events. Brilliant.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Writes daily essays on current politics with a historical context. Never hyperbolic, always factual.

Sooooo glad I'm not there anymore. Jerks.

Fuck Zuck and the billions of blood dollars he rode in on

Most of my feed now is obvious bot accounts with AI-written right-wing stories or selling fake right-wing products. It's just not worth it anymore.

Zuckerberg is a punk and a piece of shit.

She is always spot-on putting the current situation in hustorical context.

she has a substack. But her following on fb is massive, like over a million.

https://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardsonhttps://www.youtube.com/@heathercoxrichardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/

today: https://www.youtube.com/live/fUR3qFTVK2k?si=hApd7ouYlS2hSBLF

i'll have t watch that later because I have been watching Cory Booker for hours and hours and it's been so good.

But today's post just showed up on FB

I’m re-posting her missing article on my FB. Wonder if it will last.

But I've seen precious little evidence of it, so far.

We have her books. Wonder when those will be disappeared as well.
https://bookshop.org/contributors/heather-cox-richardson-ab470631-a289-4ada-90fd-5a1223000853

She's likely our main 'news' source. Even tho some days what she has to say is simply too painful to read. As she's a professor of political history we often learn something of how we have arrived at this point, and how this had been avoided in the past.

One of her powerful recent articles looked at the attempt by Secretary of State Seward (later of Seward's Folly—Purchase of Alaska— fame) to basically take over the government from Lincoln and start a war with *anybody* to convince the secessionist states to return to the Union to fight whatever foreign foe he could conjure up.