It's The Final Countdown, tiiririiriii! ⏳
-feeling dramatic-
Okay… 😄
So I feel like I’m betraying the cause, “which cause is that again?”
To be FLOSSy AF of course! #WannaGetFLOSSy! 🪅 🥳 🎉
See, I still have an account on TikTok.. “Yikes!” 😱 Yeah, I know. Haha. Lemme explain...
It’s not even a personal nor a throwaway, I don’t even have the app installed and I rarely log-in to see what’s happening so as to not feed ‘The Fiend(algorithmically centralised capitalism)’ and also to pull myself gradually away from wanting to engage with followers and respond to comments even though I don’t like leaving people hanging.
But see, the account is all about Sign Language in 3D animation – specifically Kenyan Sign Language.
From what I’ve seen, the content has a positive effect on viewers and audiences in general and if anything, it gives Sign Language and Disability more exposure and even inspired some to look into Sign Language further because it is an actual language contrary to some beliefs that it isn’t.
In fact in some countries it is an official language in their constitution and do teach Sign in public school curriculums.
I guess the way I look at it, at least as of today, is that if the positive is outweighing the negative then maybe, in this case, it’s alright to still have it up but then begin limiting the fallout such as my not interacting, engaging with, significantly reducing my logging in and begin looking for alternatives such as Loops(fedi for the win!) 🪅 🥳 🎉
I may end up deleting it all together in the future, as I have for every other account I had (I’ll definitely do a post on my FLOSS and decentralisation journey) but for the moment, I think I’ll take it a day at a time and see how things develop – as I heard somewhere :
“privacy and security isn’t a sprint, but a marathon”. 😊
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come along with me and the butterflies and bees - Ashley Eriksson