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Honest question: I loathe everything Meta but I also face enormous peer and local pressure to stay in (to promote my work, appearances, etc). How do you manage? (I follow your newsletter).

I don’t know if I have an answer. I never really got real work through Meta platforms. It was always « I saw this on your website » type deal. Meta’s algorithm is incredibly punishing to creators so what’s the point of staying? Is it for validation or for genuine work opportunities?

It is more of a "everybody expects you to be there" peer pressure / general culture. These days you tell people you have a website and it's like speaking in alien. But you got a point - I'm not hiding, if someone really wants to connect they know how, them being lazy shouldn't be my problem 🤔

Deleted all 3 of mine today.

The right thing to do.

It had been a long time coming. I should have done it quite a while ago. It was hard to walk away from an audience that we had worked hard to build, but the reality is we could never access that audience anymore anyway. Now working to remove myself from meta platforms entirely