It’s now been six weeks since I started writing those Buy European bulletins. And now, with Meta’s frankly infantile reaction 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, we’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 and decay.
None of these Apps have been problematic to leave. It’s WhatsApp I can’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 I’m counting on the Lizard Robot to do the same.
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.