Posts tagged with "rants"

2026-06-06 / tags: big tech, meta, quick reads, rants, social movements

Note: This post is primarily aimed at participants in social movements.

I'm really tired of people thinking that posting their events, news, and writing only on Instagram and nowhere else is acceptable. It makes me angry. More importantly, it only includes that grouping of people who are both in Meta's good graces and actively choose to use their services.
Guess who can't fit in there? Mad people and all those who choose to prioritize their emotional and mental wellness over participation in the attention economy. Radicals whose speech has gotten them banned from the platform. And anyone who isn't interested in giving Meta personally identifiable information like an email address, phone number, and their behavioral data.
There are so many other options to disseminate information over the Internet and otherwise, and organizers are too comfortable ignoring the masses of people that can only be reached in other spaces in favor of what's easy and comfortable.
I happen to be in a position in my life where I have a lot of free time that I would love to spend going to community events and participating in building that I am not invited to because I choose to care for my Mad crip bodymind by not bending over backwards to get a second phone number to use for the billionaire-owned brain poison app.
I am not asking for people and orgs to move off of Instagram. I recognize that it is a powerful tool for outreach and engagement, and, in many ways, a necessary evil. I am, however, demanding that folks do the absolute bare minimum by publishing the details of your activity elsewhere as well. Or, alternatively, accept and sit with the fact that your allegiance to corporate social media as your only communications outlet is actively alienating people who want to build with you and, often, people you claim to be in solidarity with.
This post sponsored by my manic episode last year spurring me to stop using Instagram, which has considerably improved my overall wellbeing.