An IndieWeb Podcast: Episode 1 “Leaving Facebook”

Episode 1 Leaving Facebook

https://david.shanske.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Indieweb1.mp3

This first half of the episode was originally recorded in March, abruptly ended, and then was not completed until April due to scheduling.

It’s been reported that Cambridge Analytica has improperly taken and used data from Facebook users in an improper manner, an event which has called into question the way that Facebook handles data. David Shanske and I discuss some of the implications from an IndieWeb perspective and where you might go if you decide to leave Facebook.

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Show Notes

Articles

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

3/17/18: New York Times: How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook data of Millions

Related articles and pages

3/21/18 Anil Dash: The Missing Building Blocks of the Web, an article bringing the Facebook issue back around to regaining the good parts of the “old web”

How To Change Your Facebook Settings To Opt Out of Platform API Sharing from the Electronic Frontier Foundation

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

3/18/18: The Guardian: Facebook employs psychologist whose firm sold data to Cambridge Analytica

Sebastian Greger’s Privacy policy

Mastodon not supporting Webmention specification

Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil

Recent Documented Facebook Quitters

Jonathan LaCour, Eddie Hinkle, Natalie Wolchover, Cher, Tea Leoni, Adam McKay, Leo Laporte,and Jim Carrey

New York Times Profile of multiple quitters:
IndieWeb Wiki related pages of interest

Potential places to move to when leaving Facebook

You’ve made the decision to leave Facebook? Your next question is likely to be: to move where? Along with the links above, we’ve compiled a short list of IndieWeb-related places that might make solid options.

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

WordPress.com

Tumblr.com

WithKnown (Paid service or host your own)

WordPress.org (self-hosted or managed)

Mastodon (doesn’t necessarily provide ownership of domain name unless you’re self-hosting an instance)