Tech Used to be Fun. To Many of Us It's Still Fun.
You can just watch it from afar and make fun of it all
The "MATA" (think of it as Meta or MAGA+Meta or GAFAM) comic strips (Wellington, part2) are meant to be amusing, not depressing. They poke fun at where "mainstream" tech is going or trying (forcibly) to take - one might say herd - us: social control media, LLMs, skinnerboxes (sometimes known as "smart" "phones") and so on.
To many of us this is just joking material. We still use our gadgets from 20-30 years ago (some of mine are 30+ years old), we use terminals, we write our own programs, we browse "the Net" using text-only clients (no photos required most of the time anyway), and we never wait 10 seconds for a browser to fully load "some tweet" or some "webapp". Life is too short for that kind of nonsense.
Being "resistant" to supposedly "trendy" (who decides those trends? Marketers?) tech is perfectly OK. You need not even justify that to anybody.
Last month we published: Software Freedom is "Activism" Because the Corporate Agenda Revolves Around Bribery, Deceit, and Betrayal
A month earlier we published: Free Software as a Culture of Resistance
So let the "cool kids" (only in their own minds) collect "likes" for affirmation while you get real work done and don't suffer social anxiety due to "algorithms" and chatbots misrepresented as "intelligence".
For one thing, Twitter is no more. It is X.com, or a xAI front end. People flee, only to be replaced by bots (same in Facebook), and X's goal is to amplify the master, MElon. As he has limited capacity he made a chatbot to spew out or amplify or multiply his voice. He calls it "AI". It has no intelligence, it's a parrot. If it spews out utterly illegal things he can pretend it is a bot, hence immune from prosecution. "Free speech absolutism" just no consequences for bots doing illegal things. So turn off social control media. That's its general trajectory, with Kapo-berg doing the same in Facebook.
Regulators or bans may not be needed if society learns to reject all that nonsense, e.g. by boycotting "MATA". And still, many politicians and governments still post in X.com, hence herding people into that platform which is itself doing illegal things. The irony isn't missed. They also get their "information" from there; then we wonder why the political systems fall into a state of disarray? █