Welcome to our quarterly social-media-free-online-biz-and-marketing links digest AKA the CLICK THRU!

This season’s round-up includes extra reporting on AI in honor of the AI series I’m currently hosting on the podcast! You can find all those AI episodes here, and get the curated links below.

As always, this is a choose-your-own-adventure sort of endeavor, so you’re invited to dip your toe in one link at a time, dive into the deep end and open them all at once, or just hang out in the splash zone of the comments and see what surfaces there.

Please remember that I don’t necessarily know the folks who create the things I link to, and I definitely don’t endorse every single thing that every single person I mention writes, says, or shares.

OK on to our sixteenth CLICK THRU + I’ll see you in the comments!

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WHAT’S UP WITH SOCIAL MEDIA & BIG TECH

🤳 If you’re still using social media (particularly Instagram, Youtube or TikTok), you should definitely read this!

📲 Even though I’ve been off social media for 5 years now, I’m still thinking about this Old Social VS New Social analysis from Rachel Karten.

Post-social media

I’ve spent the past five years writing about social media. Specifically, how brands are using social media to reach audiences. In my research, conversations, and consulting, one question keeps coming up: Why don’t my followers see my posts?

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😖 Also still hating everything about this Instagram & future of AI interview.

❌ Anybody surprised by this reporting on the most invasive apps?

⛓️‍💥 I swear Meta makes a privacy promise and God laughs.

🙏 Speaking of God… love to see the Pope coming out as anti-AI.

🤖 Immediately adding AI;DR to my vocabulary.

✍️ Also loved this video on why you’re a better writer than AI (even if you don’t think you’re a good writer).

🤐 We truly can’t compare ourselves to VC tech founders… especially because so many of them are flat-out lying about their earnings.

💊 I’m tiptoeing into the dopamine discourse a few years late, and I appreciated this interview with Dopamine Nation author Dr. Anna Lembke.

💥 Loved this guide on how to ditch big tech from Amy Lee Lillard.

🪏 Sorry to my friends who think Reddit is the last safe platform on the internet. You might not wanna read this.

✅ Here’s what happens to all your info when you verify your account on LinkedIn.

👎 And speaking of LinkedIn… here’s a great essay from Amy Santee about why the platform’s become so awful!

📡 And finally… if you’re reallllly looking to go off the grid (at least the surveillance grid), this video might be for you.

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ONLINE BIZ & CONTENT CREATION

😡 If you’d like to be totally pissed off about US taxes, read this.

✊ After reading the link above, you might appreciate this guide from Queer & Trans Wealth on war-time tax resistance.

How to protest ICE with your tax dollars

In response to ICE’s murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, tens of thousands of people participated in a nationwide general strike on January 30. For the same reasons, my inbox is filled with people asking how they can continue to protest government funding of ICE by withholding their own taxes, a practice called

Queer & Trans Wealth

📋 On the opposite note… look at this inspiring annual report from Looky Here!

🧢 I recently revisited this podcast episode on ethical consumption, and it’s GOOD.

💪 Here’s a beautiful manifesto for making ‘heavy’ things from Anu.

😵‍💫 This decoy effect video was ringing in my ears when I went to the movies last week. Definitely has me thinking more about pricing and manipulation.

🤣 If you need a lil inspiration NOT to have a podcast… this clip made me laugh out loud recently. (I’ll probably be smited for having 5 podcasts, who knows?!)

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And finally…

BABES LEAVING SOCIAL MEDIA

You know I love to see more and more folks interrogating social media, and I bookmark it every time I clock it. This section is where I share those pieces for boosts of encouragement to make changes you might be desiring.

Thanks so much to Taylor Rutledge & DomiTheeMuse for these amazing essays that mention my book. If you create a piece of your own, please send it to me, and I’ll include it!

It's Not Me, Instagram...It's You.

I am absolutely dissatisfied with social media. I am more than dissatisfied. I am filled with loathing.

Notes from Needle Fox Arts

Decentering the Scroll

Full transparency: I’m sharing this post two weeks later than I initially intended. This was truly a labor of love. My initial draft had enough content for three separate posts. What I procrastinated on was revision. But since you’re reading this now, that means I got through it. Yay! This is self-trust in action y’all. Now…

Domi's Musings

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OK that’s it for CLICK THRU 016, my friends. I look forward to meeting you in the comments!

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