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How To Join "The Project": Please! Please! Please!

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Caution: You're going to need a "public" email address, something that you won't mind other people seeing, as would happen with a mass mailing. It's far more secure than a Facebook Account, imo, and you're not going to have to use your real name at all. 1. Subscribe to the Newsletter Send me an email with "Subscribe" in the heading. That will pretty much do the trick, easy peasy! If you can, PLEASE subscribe! I can't write unless I can at least pretend someone is going to read it. So consider humoring me. I'm a nice guy. 2. Register an Email address. Send me an email with "Register" in the heading, and include a username personal information of your choice. Two words, maybe? To be determined. Be as vague as you like. You can include your real name, or a photo... or not. You can evem lie! It's not my preference, but we'll never know, unless yoou're a really bad liar. These will be listed somewhe...
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All About Email

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Why Email? Email is decentralized. You can choose your provider. You can only get to Facebook through Facebook. A social network based on email, however, can be reached through any one of a number of providers. You can get free email from Google, or you can pay money for a secure email provider. Tell me if I'm missing something, but a decentralized social network should make it easier to protect your data, and it would certainly make it harder for tech billionares like Zack Chuckkleberg and Elon "Leatherface" Musk to collect and collate everybody's data and build a political power base. To get to the point, I'm boycotting every tech company represented by those tech billionaires who appeared on Trump's inaugurational stage. It's not going to be a perfect boycott. I'm still holding onto my Facebook contacts. Those are real people, whom I care about. However, I uninstalled the Facebook app from my phone. I only access it through the deskto...
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Welcome to the Alan Smithee Project, A Tiny Experimental Hub of the Social Media Exodus

The basic idea of TASP is to create a clearinghouse of publicly shared email addresses, so we can choose our providers, and go where we want to go without being tracked (as much) and where we can recapture the joy of discovering what other people think is cool, instead of the monotony and eerie lonlieness of having every interaction driven by algorthms that attempt to push "engagement", either by keeping you angry and frightened ("doom scrolling"), or by mirroring back your own preferences. It makes the world sadder amd less interesting, and, by extension, it does the same to us. Social Media reduces EVERYTHING: world events, politics, relationships-- into clickbait. Getting you to click is ALWAYS more important than getting you to think, and so every post seeks an emotional response. YouTube videos have titles with verbs like "destroys", "humilates", and "implodes". If you're liberal, you're going to want to click to see ...
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