Substack
I established Oberg PhotoGraphics on Substack in January 2025.
Substack is an engine for culture, assists you in building a community, and is very easy to use. Whenever a new post is published, the subscribers get a message straight into their inbox. There is no algorithm and no feed like in the social media world, you can find whatever you are interested in across countless themes and issue and worldwide. It’s a whole new reading and watching experience – subscribe and you’ll see how a gate opens to a new online world that is free and substantive without a lot of hate speech.
Social media
I am slowly building up my photographics work on Linkedin, Telegram, TikTok, RedNote/Book and WeChat – the latter three being Chinese. I remain on Instagram – Oberg PhotoGraphics – but there art has been squeezed out for more and more advertisement, self-promotion/selfie, “sexy” stuff and entertainment. For me, as an artist, it was much better before.
I’ve also reduced my presence on Facebook which, like Instagram, is Zuckerberg’s Meta Corporation – it’s so superficial, you reach very few without paying for it, and they collect data about us 24/7. In January 2025, I deleted by Vimeo account due to censorship and repeated technical as well as support deficiency, to express it diplomatically.
I’ve also left Google-owned YouTube entirely. They had the guts to prevent me from ever again logging in, deleted a lot of ‘political’ videos by me as a peace scholar. So all my videos are now on Substack here.
(1) I boycott everything Google as far as possible because it practises tracking of anything you do and where you go and exercises political censorship. It annoys you with commercial ads right after you have searched for some product. In addition, through Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Alphabet that owns Google, it is/has been related to the U.S. national security council as well as Pentagon. I do not want to be part of any of that. More about that here.
Updated in January 2025.