Hi !
I’m a privacy enthousiast. I have pihole running at home, I use it as my DNS resolver, and I use wireguard on my phone to connect home and use pihole on it. Never been happier. No Facebook, no Instagram, no social media at all.
Thing is, I’m making big changes in my life. I’m moving from Paris to the countryside and I need, I badly need to advertise my services as a freelancer (sound engineer and wedding photographer).
Of course, I’m in the process of building my website (almost there), but I am nothing if I don’t post on Instagram and Facebook (in particular for my photo work). I’ve seen what other successful wedding photographers do with social media, and I need to do something alike.
I deeply despise meta, but I’ll have to make a sacrifice at some point.
I’ve already found something like hootsuite to schedule my posts without having to login into fb or insta, but I’ll have to login at some point for the interactions. So I’ll install some secure OS on an old phone I’ll use only for that purpose, but damn, I already feel dirty.
How would you feel about this ? What would be your approach ? For those of you that are in a similar situation, what’s your method ?
This is a question the community should give a little bit of attention to. Its easy to basically say “burn it all down” or even the slow-burn equivalent we have going currently but there needs to be a long-term roadmap to help deal with the objections of the dominant landscape and its major players to help further advance the cause and get everyone who’s “update-able” up to speed
My parents run a wedding venue in the USA. Usually wedding vendors (FOOD, VENUE, DJ, photography, etc.) have local conventions. I would find the local wedding venues and talk to one of them, find out where and how they advertise and do the same. Go to the stupid conventions or events.
Assuming the wedding business in France is similar, doing this should get you most of the information you need.
Thank you for the tips :)
Yep good luck
I use a PortableApps installation to keep my work separated. You could run it in a virtual machine too.
As far as the social media platforms go though, I just use the first party sites for scheduling posts. I have to give them a minimum amount of information to have accounts on them, so I don’t see the point in giving that information to someone else too.
I’ve got a browser, email client, and FTP client, and they’re all completely separate from everything else on my computer.
Sorry for my ignorance, but can you tell me more about PortableApps ? Is it this https://portableapps.com/ ?
I f I understand, this is some kind of platform that allows me to use, well, portable apps ?
That’s the one. I mostly use it to keep websites that I’m managing separate from everything else, so I use the software I mentioned earlier.
I’ve got a profile for myself too, and that has a few browsers, some small games, an antivirus, and my email client. I back it up to a portable drive, so that it’s an extra backup, and can be taken with me if I know I’m going to be away from my computer for a while.
Thanks a lot for your explanation :)
No worries. Hope it helps :)
I share your pain, using those online advertising platforms kinda goes against your principles. But it is what it is. On a phone using Facebook / Google through a browser takes care of a lot of privacy related issues as the browser is sandboxed and can’t touch your system in any way unlike their apps.
