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RE: @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

I've mostly started over in terms of my online accounts. Deleted almost everything.

- Services like reddit, I can usually get what I want just by browsing without an account.
- The only social site I have an account on is Mastodon.
- Chat/group chat is Signal

If you don't NEED an account delete it, don't create one. Weed out everything and minimize your exposure to invasive data collection and surveillance. And, when you do sign-up for a service, use an alias-email offered by services like Proton or MySudo. Generally, just be more proactive in what services you use and how you use them. And be willing to walk away from them if they start to get grabby.

And take a hard line with your family and friends. Compromise less or not at all. In 2026 privacy is the priority, not convenience.

I don't want or need most of the services I've come across.

#privacy #surveillance #fascism #data #tech

What we've seen in MN with middle class white folks putting themselves in harms way to protect their neighbors shows the spirit of what should serve as our path forward. The extension of empathy into action as solidarity. And going forward this is what we need not just in resisting fascism but in all of our efforts. We need to dig deep for broad #solidarity in recognition that our real power comes from solidarity across all our superficial differences. Our politics should not be based on focus groups, calculations, establishment strategy but simply the value and principle of solidarity in service to all of us, the 99% that is the working class. - Universal Healthcare - Universal Basic Income - Opening the electoral process to multiple parties - Building of our movement outside of the political process: Workers in workplaces and community folk in neighborhoods building #labor organizing, mutual aid, self defense and lived, grassroots #democracy at the street level.