If you are a book lover, please notice that book content is highlighted in yellow, while if you prefer to watch to talks or video, checkout our Movie List.
General
- Check out the Center for Humane Technology’s website and its podcast, Your Undivided Attention.
- Delete Facebook is the main website you want to refer to. Keep in mind that both Instagram and WhatsApp are owned by Facebook.
- quit.social, a website to train yourself not to visit social media.
- Privacy vs “I have nothing to hide”, an article by Kev Quirk
Books
- Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, a book by the legendary Jaron Lanier
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, a book by Shoshana Zuboff
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Solutions and alternatives
- What is RSS?, a YouTube video
- What is RSS, an article
- RSS on Wikipedia (or, Web feed on Wikipedia)
- RSS before Social Media, a very interesting YouTube video to watch: it shows how before the diffusion of Social Media RSS really was the best way to stay updated.
- Nitter is a Twitter proxy which allows to suubscribe to profiles’ RSS feeds, too
- Invidious, a YouTube proxy (note: the main Invidious instance shut down few months ago. From the homepage linked before, you can choose other instances, I use https://yewtu.be)
- Mastodon, with more than four active million users all around the world, is by far the most popular and developed one; its structure and functioning make it very similar to Twitter.
- Pixelfed is almost identical to Instagram. It has stories, too!
- Friendica it something like Facebook.
- PeerTube is a great paltform built by the French Framasoft. As the name suggests, it’s like YouTube, but it relies on peer-to-peer video sharing to avoid stressing the servers which host the existing instances.
- Alternative Social Networks, the section of the Alternative Internet GitHub repository by Redecentralize
- Creating Decentralized Social Media Alternatives to Facebook and Twitter by Robert W. Gehl on The Reboot
- Redecentralize blog, an independent, volunteer-driven organisation promoting the decentralisation of our digital technology.
- Get a Website Now! Don’t be a Web Peasant!, a YouTube video by Luke Smith
- Living without Social Media, a TED Talk by dr. Cal Newport
- My personal wishlist for a decentralized social network, by Carter Sande
- How did your life change after quitting social media? question on Quora
- Freedom – Software to help you restrict your social media access and gain back your time and life.
What
- Social Media statistics: active users, revenue, data about the main Social Media platforms
- Facebook ads library, look for ads and advertisers
Anger
Hate
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- Content Moderation on the Fediverse vs on Big Social media, a video by Derek Caelin
- Bodies in seats, by Casey Newton on The Verge
- Facebook can’t fix itself, an article by Andrew Marantz on The New Yorker
- Facebook Executives Shut Down Efforts to Make the Site Less Divisive, an article on The Wall Street Journal
- Facebook admits it was used to ‘incite offline violence’ in Myanmar on BBC News
- YouTube’s algorithm seems to be funneling people to alt-right videos on MIT Technology Review
- Why the right wing has a massive advantage on Facebook on Politico
Polarization
- How Facebook profits from polarization, a TED Talk by Yael Eisenstat
- Facebook Can’t Fix what it won’t admit to by Steven Levy on Wired
- Exposure to opposing views on social media canincrease political polarization, a paper by Christopher A. Baila,b,c,1, Brian Guaya,d,2, Emily Maloneya,b,2, Aidan Combsa,b, D. Sunshine Hillygusa,c,d,Friedolin Merhouta,e, Deen Freelonf, and Alexander Volfovskya
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Misinformation
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- How to save Facebook from democracy, by Francis Fukuyama, Barak Richman, and Ashish Goel on Foreign Affairs
- Don’t Blame Section 230 for Big Tech’s Failures. Blame Big Tech. by Elliot Harmon on EFF
- Mark Zuckerberg Is an Arbiter of Truth—Whether He Likes It or Not, by Steven Levy on WIRED
Bubble
- Silicon Valley Pretends That Algorithmic Bias Is Accidental. It’s Not., by Amber M. Hamilton on Slate
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Quality
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Addiction
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Distraction
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Data
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Profiling
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- How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, by Cory Doctorow
- Twenty years of surveillance marketing, by Bruce Sterling on Wired
- The Cambridge Analytica Story, Explained, by WIRED
- Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy, a TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr
Monopolization
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- Facebook is a social network monopoly that buys, copies or kills competitors, antitrust committee finds, by Salvador Rodriguez on CNBC
- The end of the Facebook crime spree, by Matt Stoller
- Behind Washington’s one-eighty on Facebook: A rethink of monopoly power, an article by Leah Nylen on Politico
- U.S. and States Say Facebook Illegally Crushed Competition by Cecilia Kang and Mike Isaac on The New York Times
Sociality
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Standardization
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Content ownership
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Hurry
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Simplicity vs simplification
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Environment
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Closed
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Saturation
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Being used
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