FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform

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FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform
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@MudMan I only use Facebook for WhatsApp though, I avoid it everywhere I can, their devices, Instagram, Facebook

@hedge @Jeze3D

Same. I never got rid of my Facebook account, though. I still have multiple work relations that will reach out to me that way, and my work phone is the one I have logged in to it. I keep it off my home browsers and personal phone.

But you can't NOT have WhatsApp. It's just not an option. If people thought it was hard to get Americans to stop using Twitter, this is an order of magnitude bigger.

Yeah, I'm in the "have to have WhatsApp" camp because it's the only way I can stay in touch with a bunch of international friends now that I don't have a Facebook account anymore.

There are alternatives, but I don't press about it because at least Meta doesn't monetize WhatsApp...for now

If someone sends me a FB message I'll usually wait a week or so and then tell them to text/email me for faster response.

Some people, though, already have my phone and email but will send me IG messages, even though I never reply to a single one and ask them (elsewhere) to stop messaging me on there. Several years later they still send me messages.