The reasons I left FB are several…but this short – less than 5 minutes – video explains things WAY better than I could. And it explains why quitting FB was as hard as quitting smoking. Or quitting sugar. If you still think your use of FB is harmless, or within your control, or about your …
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Monday Musings – Sept. 13, 2021 Edition: Alternatives
It’s no secret that I’ve been working my way away from Big Tech over the last couple of years. I’ve given up Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and Twitter so far. And when I say “given up” I mean I have stopped providing content on those platforms. I also have deleted my accounts on Facebook …
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Saturday Social – Sept. 4, 2021 Edition
This will be my last update of my social media activity for a while, since I don’t plan to make any more changes at this time. Always check MY ONLINE HANGOUTS, below the chat box, for current activity. It was 2019 when I decided to get away from Big Tech and use alternative platforms for …
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VIDEO – Plus Catching Up, Then Getting Behind Again!
This video is also available on my Rumble account or my GabTV channel. So on Friday I posted the Friday Funnies – and it was a good bunch, wasn’t it! – and then our 7YO granddaughter Lyra came to spend a few days. I always get a lot of enjoyment out of spending time with her, and this …
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Saturday Social – Aug. 21, 2021 Edition
My Thoughts On Signal…More Mastodon Madness…Still Trapped in Pocketnet…Good Bye Telegram…Update Coming Soon! Last week I didn’t do a Saturday Social post, I don’t recall why, or what I was doing that prevented me from doing it. But here are my latest social media experiences, with my thoughts. I will be dropping Signal, which I …
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Saturday Social – Aug. 7, 2021 Edition: ELEMENT!!!
I have been learning more and more about the fediverse during the last year or so, and decentralization. It all began with a foray into Mastodon, which is a wonderful decentralized social network. (Don’t worry about memorizing these terms, there won’t be a test!) Though I frequent multiple instances my “home” instance is called theres.life. …
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Monday Muddles
WARNING: If you are easily triggered by thoughts and opinions other than your own, or facts with which you don’t agree, then you may not want to read this post. Seriously. To muddle is “to mix up in a confused…manner” and I keep running across memes out of which I have to try to make …
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Saturday Social – July 24, 2021 Edition
First: GET ME OUT OF POCKETNET!!! ?I joined it, enjoyed it – a LOT – for a while, then it all became about earning coins, ratings, and other record-keeping and earnings oriented. I get what they’re doing, and what they’re trying to create there. But it’s not what I want. And I have combed through …
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Saturday Social – July 3, 2021 Edition
This is sort of a followup to a video I posted on Gab a few days ago, A Kinder, Gentler Gab. (It’s also on my Rumble channel, HERE.) At the request of one of the welcome volunteers at Gab, I made a video sharing my thoughts and methods for personalizing Gab. Thanks to a hostile-to-free-speech …
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Well THIS Was Amusing!
Though it’s about 10 minutes of my life that I’ll never get back, I did have some fun with an AI text-to-image engine that I read about on mastodon. I tried to make my text descriptions very basic – though maybe I should have actually described the objects rather than assume it would know what, …
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