It’s time to leave social media run by billionaires
50501 Kansas City is proud to be part of a great group of organizer working to end the oligarchy, end their control of our social media, and bring our town halls back under the people’s control!
Join with Starve the Machine and start weaning yourself off their platforms and starve them of the attention and funding they need to survive.
Big Tech is Funding the Far Right
The guys running the digital town square are pumping hundreds of millions of dollars into partisan politics. Combined, Elon Musk (X), Jeff Yass (TikTok), Larry Ellison (Oracle/TikTok), Peter Thiel (Meta), Marc Andreessen (Meta) have injected over half a billion dollars into far right politics to divide our country and control their narrative.
The Algorithms are Rigged Against You
Social media algorithms are not neutral. They are actively engineered to quiet progressive voices and boost the right. They are throttling content, boosting far-right accounts, radicalizing the right, skewing algorithms against the people.
Your Data is Being Weaponized
These apps are massive surveillance tools. They know exactly who you are, who you hang out with, and where you go.
- Doxxing Activists: Meta voluntarily handed over user data to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to unmask anti-ICE activists.
- WhatsApp Backdoors: Meta built a backdoor into WhatsApp, allowing them to read your “private” messages whenever they want.
- Mass Surveillance Dreams: Larry Ellison openly cheers for AI-powered mass surveillance. Under the new TikTok deal, his company holds all US user data.
- Instant Censorship: Meta didn’t just suppress content; they completely banned links to grassroots activist trackers and deleted rapid-response groups.
We can vote with our views
If we stay they can manipulate, surveil, and silence us.
Platforms to Leave
Facebook deleted rapid response networks and doxxed activists to DHS.
Migrate to Communities (communities.social)
Instagram throttled us and allowed them to hate.
Migrate to Monnett (monnett.social)
TikTok
TikTok’s new owners were chosen by Trump.
Migrate to Monnett (monnett.social)
Threads
Threads is run from Meta’s boardroom.
Migrate to Bluesky (bsky.app)
X / Twitter
X is Elon Musk’s political project.
Migrate to Bluesky (bsky.app)
Meta can break WhatsApp’s encryption at will.
Migrate to Signal (signal.org)
About the alternatives
Stay long enough to bring everyone with you.
Communities
Friends, groups, and long-form posts.
- Replaces Facebook
- Built by pro-democracy activists, explicitly to support the movements.
- Working towards non-profit, cooperative governance: democratically run, no owner to buy off.
- Funded by user donations, like Wikipedia. Open source, and public about where it stands.
- No Trump-linked funders, board members, or executives.
Monnett
Reels, stories, and comments with a follow model.
- Replaces Instagram and TikTok
- Built by Christos Floros, journalist and progressive member of Luxembourg Democratic Party.
- Built to provide a European, pro-social alternative to big tech.
- No AI. No Surveillance. No Algorithm. No Hate.
- No Trump-linked funders, board members, or executives.
Bluesky
Microblogging on a decentralized protocol.
- Replaces X / Twitter and Threads
- Incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation, not billionaire controlled.
- Built on an open protocol so that many apps can use the same network. Blacksky and Eurosky already provide alternatives.
- Choose your own algorithm, or use none at all.
- No Trump-linked funders, board members, or executives.
Signal
True private messaging, properly encrypted.
- Replaces WhatsApp
- Built by an activist to support activism in authoritarian contexts.
- Incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit, the Signal Foundation.
- Funded by user donations.
- Board members include prominent regime critics.
How to Participate
- Make your accounts on Bluesky, Monnett, and/or Communities today. Bring five people with you.
- Post once a week on Meta, TikTok, and/or X about why you’re leaving and where to find you.
- Share posts and information from Starve the Machine to your accounts to help spread the campaign.
- Spread the word in real life. Tell your friends, family, and community. Encourage everyone to move.
- Ask the creators you follow to bring their audiences over.
- Stay just long enough to empty the room. After the midterms, delete your accounts and don’t look back!