Be a Deletist 🚫

@charles_rt Couple of random thoughts since you're asking - I'd lose any inferences about objectives of tracking (nefarious or otherwise), there're so many reasons people collect data, to sum it all up as "for advertising" seems a bit generalised. - The 150x a day then leading to the assertion that "these things are designed to be addictive" seems a bit melodramatic, if you're checking email notifications on your phone you're not being exposed to adverts. A large part of the "addiction" seems to be quite practical: phones are still primarily a communication tool after all and collaboration/socialising is a very human/normal activity. Phones just happen to be the tool of choice right now. Would recommend either losing the opinions or backing them up with some sources - The CTAs are a bit lost - is the point of the page to get people to participate/engage with the provided resources, to grow a brand or to spread a doctrine? The site does reasonably well at playing on the current concerns around control of data and privacy but as the media hype dies down you'll likely lose your virality so if you're looking to retain some value from the current surge in traffic or build this into anything more than a transient circle-jerk you seem to have two main options: 1) Harvest some data from users (e.g. an email newsletter) - this could be problematic for obvious reasons given the narrative of the site 2) Focus on brand building: lose the "me", "I"s from the page and try to tie your brand to the ideology of privacy etc - this could open some opportunities to sell stickers and other things that might generate some nice little revenue streams ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@charles_rt 3) build a tool that automatically deletes/processes delete requests for the major social platforms - and monetize it somehow maybe?

@calvers7 Thanks, Calvin. This is all useful as I haven’t considered any of it yet. I’m not entirely sure what I want this to be or if I want anything out of it. Right now, I don’t think I do want anything out of it except to create something that people find useful and I can learn from the experience. Self-gratification is what I’m after then :) A lot of the fat needs cutting which I’ll look at. Giving it an iteration tonight.

@charles_rt @calvers7 been trying to do it for some time and this is actually ( contrary to what zuckMan says ) very very HARD to do

@calvers7 @vasco_barbosa Hard process, or hard letting go?

Well, this was a worthwhile experiment 😂 I spend my day job focusing on prototypes, MVPs and starting with user needs. I should really practice what I preach. I’ll put the hours spent to experience and at least the domain only cost me 83p.

@charles_rt The instructions for Reddit should note that once you delete your account, it's impossible to then delete the posts & comments made by that account. Even though those posts & comments will become attributed to "deleted", they may contain text that accidentally reveals the original author.

@mattthew good shout. I will update the content to include this.

@rrhoover Thanks, Ryan. Always impressed with the amount of time you give to this community. Right now, all the content is based on my own person experiences as I’m becoming somewhat of a Deletist myself.

@metalhaze Looks like it’s all good now. Fingers crossed 🤞

@charles_rt Looks good here! Thanks!

@donte_ll Firstly I separate work me from personal me. Work me has to use certain software and that’s OK because it’s work me and I’m getting paid for it. Personal me doesn’t use traditional docs software. I use Bear for all writing and Keynote if I need to do a presentation. For contacts, calendars, etc I use Apple. I realise this will spark some debate of Apple vs Google. I’m OK with Apple having my data. Right now, they are transparent with privacy and data. I get a lot of value out of Apple. It’s a choice I’ve made and by keeping everything is one place it has added benefits, I’ve reduced my digital footprint and I can focus more. If people get a lot of value out of google and their products that’s great too. Keep google. If you get value out of something, keep it. Delete the excess.