Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Flickr, Mastodon, TikTok, YouTube, SaidIt and Tumblr were candidates for the worst social networks worldwide prize (data / account deleted / banned). Winner are Reddit (place 1), Instagram (place 2) and Twitter (place 3). Congrats!
It's time for the awards ceremony: gold medal for the worse social network to keep you data safe once you are dead, or you are alive, to Reddit! Silver medal goes to Instagram and bronze medal to Twitter and Elon Musk. Congratulations to all winners!
Reasons:
Place 1: multiple unsense subreddit bans, random user bans, previous important subreddits bans (even big and crucial subreddits, we don't mean related to politics...). Reddit gives a shit to your data at all (doesn't matter this obsession with Reddit API, this was already before that). Plus all posts get deleted once an user/admin is banned and dead (if no one other approve such banned post again), etc.
Place 2: check r/facebookdisabledme #facebookdisabledme
Place 3: multiple government channels banned previous with no sense (some of these we already reported on various socials), same for influencers or normal users, the introduction of new rules for account that are inactive, ban in background of random accounts in Instagram style, etc.
Place 4: Google services, due to the introduction of new inactivity rules, even if "Google is not really a social network". YouTube is nothing better, due to all unsense bans. There are correct bans due to copyright, but even tons of random bans with no reason.
Facebook compared to Instagram currently works better, so we haven't considered it. Plus Facebook is offering various tools https://www.facebook.com/help/150486848354038 https://www.facebook.com/help/764712286927215/ https://accountscenter.facebook.com/memorialization/ etc. which can be done already now when you are still alive ...
2024 update? Congrats Mastodon! You are near Reddit, Instagram and Twitter now!
It's time for the awards ceremony: gold medal for the worse social network to keep you data safe once you are dead, or you are alive, to Reddit! Silver medal goes to Instagram and bronze medal to Twitter and Elon Musk. Congratulations to all winners!
Reasons:
Place 1: multiple unsense subreddit bans, random user bans, previous important subreddits bans (even big and crucial subreddits, we don't mean related to politics...). Reddit gives a shit to your data at all (doesn't matter this obsession with Reddit API, this was already before that). Plus all posts get deleted once an user/admin is banned and dead (if no one other approve such banned post again), etc.
Place 2: check r/facebookdisabledme #facebookdisabledme
Place 3: multiple government channels banned previous with no sense (some of these we already reported on various socials), same for influencers or normal users, the introduction of new rules for account that are inactive, ban in background of random accounts in Instagram style, etc.
Place 4: Google services, due to the introduction of new inactivity rules, even if "Google is not really a social network". YouTube is nothing better, due to all unsense bans. There are correct bans due to copyright, but even tons of random bans with no reason.
Facebook compared to Instagram currently works better, so we haven't considered it. Plus Facebook is offering various tools https://www.facebook.com/help/150486848354038 https://www.facebook.com/help/764712286927215/ https://accountscenter.facebook.com/memorialization/ etc. which can be done already now when you are still alive ...
2024 update? Congrats Mastodon! You are near Reddit, Instagram and Twitter now!