Both Nightwish and Dua Lipa melodically reported from this moment in time. For me it's finally leaving the meta appverse. Just a few months ago, I totally killed my very old Twitter account. Now I needed to leave facebook and Instagram.
So I went to facebook, clicked here and there and ... and finally had to google how to kill my facebook account. That alone was showing me, that it is the right decision. And somehow I am glad that these times are over.
I tried to recap some of the stuff going on around the AI bots at facebook (CNN), the we-won't-censor-anymore video (on YouTube commented by Sascha Pallenberg, strong language but hilarious) and meta killing their diversity and inclusion program (The Guardian) - but the more I read the more depressed I became.
Without regrets I will focus on the fediverse and the open web even more. Find me at Mastodon. To move away from Insta, I started an account on pixelfed. However, I want to move to bonn.pics, so let's see when they are opening up their server.
I am very curious how pixelfed is going to be. There is already lots of discussion ongoing about a federated image exchange. Obviously you are limited to 4GB. Let's find out.