<nettime> On #deletefacebook in the Netherlands

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

Dear nettimers,

it’s been a busy week here in NL with the Facebook exodus movement. Numbers of people that left are of course very hard to estimate but I guess it been so far 10-20.000 people who followed the ByeByeFacebook call of the Dutch comedian Arjen Lubach, last Sunday night:

https://in.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-netherlands/widely-watched-dutch-comedian-says-bye-bye-facebook-idINKBN1HG290

Next Monday night there’s a meeting in De Waag of the Facebook Liberation Army where we will discuss all these issues. The announcements are in Dutch, and so will the gathering be, I suppose. This is a follow-up of the Facebook Farewell Party in the Amsterdam main theatre, in April 2015.

Below there’s a link list that we just compiled. I have been posting daily link lists to the Unlike Us list, which was founded in 2011 by me and Korinna Patelis and is still active. If you like, forward the list list, change it, add others to it.

Best, Geert

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Facebook Liberation Army Link List (April 12, 2018)

Compiled and edited by Geert Lovink & Patricia de Vries (Institute of Network Cultures)

Facebook Delete Manuals

https://pageflows.com/blog/delete-facebook/

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/ghostery-news/after-cambridge-analytica-scandal-how-to-delete-your-facebook-account/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/news/2018/03/28/people-really-deleting-their-facebook-accounts-its-complicated/464109002/

https://androidreader.com/how-to-delete-your-facebook-account-step-by-step/

https://beat.10ztalk.com/2018/03/26/why-deletefacebook-is-a-bad-idea-unless-you-have-these-4-questions-answered/

https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/21_delete_facebook/

Divorce Tools

https://www.fastcodesign.com/90164935/want-to-fight-back-against-facebooks-algorithm-check-out-these-tools

https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/facebook-container-extension/

https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/21_delete_facebook/

https://degooglisons-internet.org/

Departure & Alternatives

https://gab.ai/

https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/11/facebook-competition/

https://www.tippereconomy.io/

https://mastodon.social/about

http://www.orkut.com/index.html

https://peepeth.com/about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

https://degooglisons-internet.org/

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prevaat-the-privacy-focused-social-network#/

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-alternatives/

https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/21_delete_facebook/#decide

http://threatbrief.com/deletefacebook-5-best-facebook-alternatives-focus-privacy/

https://mashable.com/2018/03/20/facebook-replacement-openbook-competition/#frm9x3CADZqZ

The RSS Alternative

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/07/rss-is-undead/

https://www.wired.com/story/rss-readers-feedly-inoreader-old-reader/

To Regulate or Not to Regulate

http://www.ctrl-verlust.net/cambridge-analytica-the-kontrollverlust-and-the-post-privacy-approach-to-data-regulation/

https://stratechery.com/2018/the-facebook-current/

https://medium.com/@YESHICAN/an-open-letter-to-facebook-from-the-data-for-black-lives-movement-81e693c6b46c

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/04/algorithms-powerful-europe-response-social-media

https://www.republik.ch/2018/03/27/menschen-wuerden-ihre-daten-verkaufen-wenn-sie-koennten

https://ourdataourselves.tacticaltech.org/posts/21_delete_facebook/

Long Reads & Analysis & Opinion

https://cyberwanderlustblog.wordpress.com/2018/04/06/why-feminists-should-abandon-social-networks-ideology/  

https://thebaffler.com/latest/cambridge-analytica-con-levine

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-as-hard-to-escape-an-echo-chamber-as-it-is-to-flee-a-cult

https://labs.rs/en/the-human-fabric-of-the-facebook-pyramid/

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/cambridge-analytica-and-our-lives-inside-the-surveillance-machine

https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2018/03/26/Quit-Facebook/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/business/facebook-zuckerberg-apologies/?utm_term=.156887e60e4b

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-a-history-of-mark-zuckerberg-apologizing/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/technology/zuckerberg-elections-russia-data-privacy.html

(Tech) Facts &  & Threads

https://mashable.com/2013/06/26/facebook-shadow-profiles/#b9irCKx_MZqz 

https://medium.com/tow-center/the-graph-api-key-points-in-the-facebook-and-cambridge-analytica-debacle-b69fe692d747

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-03-28/fakebook-its-way-zero

https://twitter.com/therealjpk/status/976484505035751424

https://twitter.com/ashk4n/status/983725115903852544

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2_fUqaHGe8

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