CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@ninafelwitch @Ashedryden Yeah, that's also the reason why I'm on WhatsApp, only because of family connections or to read some updates from meetup groups.

But I'm not really present there. And at some point you would be lonely sitting in your flat, without any connection with people anymore.

I still suffer from that, while I'm not as 100% "pure" or stringent when it comes to my denial of such corporations. At some point you break, at some point you long for connection, if you are basically lonely in your offline life.

If it would be different, then I would be less pressured to even use these services at all. Do I trust Signal, Discord, Reddit, Telegram? No, not at all.

First real life connections become more and more impossible as you get older, then only connections in those walled gardens can be found and it's painful.

@Ashedryden This is already the case of being excluded from the web. If you "choose" to hang around only on non-bigtech sites, then you are already excluded. If you have some principles then you are already excluded.

This is just another straw on the camels back.

@rhizomancer@mastodon.social @madeindex Ah right, these kind of communists. Forgot about those!