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How do I make money - self-employed - without using corporate social media?

I was coasting along on an extremely minimal income and I embraced an ethical position of using only privacy-compatible technology.

I subsequently had a wonderful little person come into my life who has made me want to have more material capability & flexilibilty. And so I have turned to trying to sell my skills again.

By refusing to use to use corporate social media to promote my services, I am handicapping myself in getting work.

I also struggle to bring myself to cooperate with powers which are working to undermine my child's opportunity to have a good life.

Would appreciate your thoughts

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[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

For running a public-facing business where your customer leads have to come from online, I don't have a good answer, except maybe to take an attitude that it's your company rather than you who is using the social media. I did a similar thing when I had to do some windows development for a client. I don't run windows on my own computers, but the client supplied a windows laptop that I did the work on, so it was their computer rather than mine, ok fine. I realize it's possible to overstretch that concept but it's a matter of your personal comfort level.

As an ordinary working stiff working privately for companies or clients but not seeking public exposure, I haven't had significant problems despite not using the big social media including linkedin and github. Just respond to advertisements and stuff like that to get jobs, and self-host a public code repo if you want one. Once someone commented on it but it still wasn't an issue.