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Archiving your Meta accounts

This is the third in a series of posts about divesting your social life from Meta. In previous posts I made a case for why I’m leaving Meta (and other Big Social platforms), and how to start the process of leaving. Before you delete your Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

Starting to leave Meta

I wrote earlier this week about how I’m withdrawing from Meta social spaces and investing my attention elsewhere, on Mastodon and Bluesky. What does that look like? I’m writing down some practical steps that I hope others might take advantage of. If you have your own ideas, please

After Big Social

Last week Meta—the company that operates Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads—changed their Community Guidelines in a way that’s designed to appease the incoming Trump administration. Rules that guided moderation decisions to remove hate speech based on gender and immigration are now lifted. They changed it for just

In 2025 I will take and print more photos.

A resolution I’m making for the new year: take more photos and print at least one good picture per week. It’s first day of the new year and I’ve reset my camera’s file numbering (e.g., img_0001.jpg) and I got my photo printer'

Ricardo

The last time I relaunched this site in 2009 I mainly focused on posting photos. I tried to make one good picture per day (shooting/editing/posting online). That aspirational cadence meant that I carried a camera around with me most of the time and it made me more comfortable

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