An Indieweb Podcast – Episode 1: Leaving Facebook

Episode 1 - Leaving Facebook for What?

https://img.shanske.xyz/2018/04/Indieweb1.mp3
This second episode was originally recorded in March, abruptly ended, and then was not completed until April due scheduling. In it, Chris and I discuss the hot topic of Facebook scandals and where you might go if you decide to leave Facebook.

Show Notes

The originating articles that kicked off the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica issue:

3/16/18: Facebook’s Newsroom: Suspending Cambridge Analytica and SCL Group from Facebook by Paul Grewal Protecting people’s information is at the heart of everything we do.

3/17/18: The Guardian: Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook-influence-us-election

3/17/18: New York Times: “How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook data of Millions”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html

Other related articles:

Anil Dash: Article bringing the Facebook issue back around to regaining the good parts of the “old” web” https://medium.com/@anildash/the-missing-building-blocks-of-the-web-3fa490ae5cbc

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing (Electronic Frontier Foundation) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/how-change-your-facebook-settings-opt-out-platform-api-sharing

3/24/18: Ars Technica: Facebook scraped call, text message data for years from Android phones

Recent Documented Facebook Quitters:

Jonathan LaCour: https://cleverdevil.io/2018/ive-officially-deleted-my-facebook-account-and

Eddie Hinkle: https://eddiehinkle.com/2018/03/22/5/article/

Natalie Wolchover: https://twitter.com/nattyover/status/975711260221362177

New York Times Profile of multiple quitters: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/users-abandon-facebook.html

IndieWeb Wiki related pages of interest here:

https://indieweb.org/why

https://indieweb.org/principles

https://indieweb.org/Facebook

https://indieweb.org/silo-quits

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6074

Potential simple places to move to when leaving Facebook

Micro.blog for $5/month (or bring your own web site for free)

Mastodon

WordPress.com

Tumblr.com

WithKnown (Paid service or host your own)

WordPress.org (self-hosted or managed)

Other possible projects/options: https://indieweb.org/projects

Sebastian Greger’s Privacy policy: https://sebastiangreger.net/privacy-policy/

Mastodon not supporting Webmention specification: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6074#issuecomment-378452136