One Last Rethink...

Well...that was that.

As you all know I went back and forth and back and forth about totally deleting Facebook and Instagram when Meta changed their terms and services on January 1st. I eventually came down on the side of keeping the accounts to hold on to my memories and contacts that I've built there. I wasn't going to post anything new except comments on other people's posts here and there. It was my compromise.

But...

Now Meta/Zuckerberg has decided that fact checking is nonsense and it's okay to call women items and go after the LGBTQIA+ community with impunity. Especially trans folks. Even including taking away the overlays you could do in your Messenger app. Like I had the trans overlay so everything I wrote showed up in blue, pink and white. It was cute. But he took that away. Because well...no gay. Apparently he met with a group of right wing influencers to make sure he was doing everything they wanted. Reopening hate speech, getting rid of any rainbow support, damning facts to the cornfield. Normal right wing stuff like that...not at all authoritarian scared as fuck of Trump posturing. Riiiiight.

It's also come out that he (I say he when I mean the company) pirated a ton of copyrighted books and trained his fucking AI on them. Theft.

So we've got his lousy new Ts&Cs. Stealing work (which was why I figured he already had stolen everything I had ever posted already). And anti Rainbow family.

Anti my family.

Which fuck you. That's my reaction to that.

Bend the knee if you want, Zuck, but it won't be on my neck that you do it.

So as much as it saddens me to lose what I built there I cannot stay. I made an updated post to let people know I was going for real not just fading back. I'm on Bluesky for as long as that holds. And I'm here.

And I get why other people are making different decisions. I really do. Don't think my passionate response to this in ANY way reflects what I think about your choice. People make decisions for a multitude of reasons and for a lot of people that social network that they made, those communities that they've built, is something that is worth staying for. It was a close call for me. So I get it.

But I just can't.

I downloaded all of the photos that I've posted over the years. So I have those. Just not what anyone said about them.

For the rest I'll just have to use my memory. Trust when I think of you I'll give you all the best and funniest comments.

I'm leaving my accounts up until Sunday, hopefully people will see my post and understand why everything related to me disappears when it does.

And I know I'll shed a tear or two when I hit delete. It's been a mostly good run. For an antisocial, non-joiner, like me, it was fun to make connections without having to make eye contact.

Final decision made.

Sadly.