Hi Andreas
> Am 23.03.2026 um 10:01 schrieb Andreas Fink <afink(a)list.fink.org>:
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> On 23.03.2026 09:09, Patrick Studer wrote:
>> Hi Andreas
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>> That’s the reason, I was deleting my account 3 years ago. But unfortunately, there are to many sites and groups just organized within Facebook. I assume, it’s because it’s „free“ and in some regions of the world, people don’t have to much money to spend in professional websites.
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> well then these groups are not professional and dont deserve to be considered. Just the data protection aspect of this is a nightmare. GDPR etc...
For Restaurant etc. I could probably life with it, but there are some groups which exist long time and they shared there experience with a product (about 7-8000 members). Even I can push them to move away from Facebook, how can they migrate all the gathered and shared experiences to a new platform.
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>> At least, in metaverse, you are not blocked from content, if you don’t have an account (as far as i know).
>> I assume, Facebook is the easiest and least cost way to have a presence in the WWW and the largest user base.
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> I strongly disagree on that. All smart people are not on Facebook anymore. Maybe the chat lover's group is still there. Similar is the case with Twitter now known as X since Elon killed the API rendering all useful 3rd party clients useless.
Sorry, mixed up the name. I was talking about Fediverse about open access to content, not metaverse.
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>> Like I said earlier, I would prefer to not have an account and have access to those sites and groups, but that’s not possible (today).
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> Well you should address the people which are still there and question their doing why they are pushing others to give away their privacy to an american collecting machine.
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> You will live much better that way.
Agreed on that one. What would you recommend for them als (free) alternative?