RE: How do you Hive?
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Instagram I can say goodbye to, even as a photographer! The problem is, I have a few thousand business cards printed with my instagram handle on them.
I guess I have a telephone number printed on that same business card.
YouTube is tough, because for me, I have a premium YouTube subscription for YouTube music. Sharn watches a lot of YouTube, and I do too- there's a lot of good brain food on there, but I suppose if I never watched another YouTube video again in my life, I don't think I would be losing anything too major.
The Facebook side is tough, as so many of my friends do not text, they use Facebook messenger instead. Local events and outreach is harder to organise around without that "community" feel. And marketplace is so very good for getting rid of stuff and finding cheap 2nd hand things you didn't know you needed.
There are other options for messaging - signal, telegram, but I think they'll be covered by the "ban".
I think most people will just suck it up and validate their IDs. I don't think all that much will change.
These sites have such a huge reach, you'd pretty much be starting again if you went to anywhere else. No-one's going to want to do that, so they've got everyone where they want them, for sure. Facebook is used by businesses too. It's often easier to find information on there than on their websites.
I think you'll be able to use YouTube if you're not logged in, it will be limited, though.
I've heard WhatsApp will probably be included as well. Something I've only used once before anyway.
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I just had a chat with Sharn about this - our non-negotiables are probably:
We can live without the others. The thing is, we're not children, and our accounts on some of these platforms are >16 years old anyway!
Oh, wow! I'm pretty sure my accounts aren't that old, so would require further proof of age. It will be interesting to know if they still try to require proof of age from you, though.
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