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While covering our recent anniversary (see \u201cStaying the Course After 35 Years of TidBITS<\/a>,\u201d 18 April 2025), I wrote:<\/p>\n

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Like many, I find it difficult not to obsess about current events, and I encourage you to align your actions with your values in a way that feels right to you. When the path forward seems unclear, I believe we can best contribute by modeling the behavior we want to see in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A moment of reflection made me realize that I had an opportunity to model more of that behavior. TidBITS has been sounding the alarm about social media for many years, and the hope I expressed a few years ago in \u201cElon Musk Buys Twitter (Really) for $44 Billion<\/a>\u201d (28 October 2022) now seems tragically naive:<\/p>\n

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We aren\u2019t going to weigh in on whether Musk\u2019s acquisition of Twitter is good, bad, or frogtwaddle\u2014there\u2019s no predicting what the man will do. We can only hope that he doesn\u2019t make social media even more of a civil society-destroying hellstew than it currently is.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The toxic hellstew that once simmered behind our screens has now boiled over into the real world. X\/Twitter has become a tool for market manipulation and conspiracy theories, while Facebook cynically dismantles safeguards against disinformation in pursuit of engagement metrics and political favor. What began as digital dysfunction has metastasized into tangible societal harm.<\/p>\n

Thus, this article marks our final post to X\/Twitter and Facebook. I can no longer ethically provide material support to platforms whose leadership so actively undermines civil society. The TidBITS accounts will remain, but they will stand silent, bearing a note that they are deliberately inactive in protest.<\/p>\n

My apologies to any TidBITS readers who are inconvenienced by this move, and I hope you\u2019ll take advantage of one of the many other ways to read TidBITS, including directly via our website<\/a>, email newsletter<\/a>, or RSS feed<\/a>. You can also find TidBITS in Matt Neuburg\u2019s TidBITS News<\/a> iPhone app, Apple News<\/a>, Mastodon<\/a>, and now on Bluesky<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This is a purely symbolic statement\u2014the loss of TidBITS will neither dent the revenues of these platforms nor change the actions of their leadership. But symbols have power, and even small actions accumulate. Every individual refusal, every quiet stand, every principled choice makes it a little easier for others to do the same.<\/p>\n

Let us all model the world we hope to see.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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