The TikTok ban and Donald Trump's rise to power show how fragile our social media accounts are. We must normalize and invest in decentralized social media.
  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    That one got banned too. I can’t even signup for a lot of these services. I get banned before I even make a post.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.

      The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.

      *With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.

    • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Honestly, if you’re going to do both, do bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky isn’t properly decentralised the way mastodon is, but a lot of influential people are there. Also it’s way better than twitter was.