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Banning TikTok Won’t Keep Your Data Safe | Pompous billionaires, authoritarian regimes, and opaque oligarchs are hoarding our data. Only an alternative online ecosystem will stop them. (foreignpolicy.com)
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[–] MigratingtoLemmy 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The answer is to not use social media.

Said I, on Lemmy. Heck, some even call IRC social media.

[–] SlothMama 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would use an activity pub Lemmy verse Facebook

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would never use anything Zuck touches

[–] SlothMama -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Cool, what's a reasonable replacement?

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 3 points 2 months ago

For social media you don't care about being private in, Mastodon. For large chat groups like Slack, Matrix. For private communication: SimpleX + PGP