!delete_your_facebook

Last Updated: July 16th 2023

It's here!

With the help of some friends and some fellow Mastodon community members, I created a zine to help introduce the masses to the joy of Mastodon! It's roughly 16 pages. It's meant to serve as a primer to the uninformed. When writing it, I considered my audience to be people like my parents, or my brother, or my grandmother—casual users of Corpo social media with little-to-no tech background.

You can read it online here:
Screen-Reading PDF
Print-Imposed PDF

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Here are some of the sources I sythesized when researching for this zine.

A. Goldman and P. Vogt. #109 Is Facebook Spying on You?

A. Goldman and P. Vogt. #138 The Great Momo Panic

A. Raman, S. Joglekar, E. De Cristofaro, N. Sastry, and G. Tyson. Challenges in the Decentralised Web: The Mastodon Case

J. E. Schroeder. Reinscribing gender: social media, algorithms, bias.

J. Zou and L. Schiebinger. Design AI so that it’s fair

M DeVito, D. Gergle, and J. Bernholtz. “Algorithms ruin everything”: #RIPTwitter, Folk Theories, and Resistance to Algorithmic Change in Social Media

N. Aggarwal and C. More. Fast Fashion: A Testimony on Violation of Environment and Human Rights

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And here are a few that I didn't end up using, but I still found interesting/helpful:

J. Zang. Case Studies in Public Interest Technology