I logged in to Facebook a day or two ago to pin a post that basically said: "I'm still around, just not here. My email is ______ and here's a link to my blog. Stay in touch if you're so inclined."
I've had contact with a few folks. I really despise how FB has become so entrenched in my friends lives. I'd love for them all to leave it, but they're too invested.
What is it I was taught?
"Vote with your feet."
I stopped posting about why people should leave a while back. I gave up preaching about secure communication and open source alternatives. Part of me feels like I abandoned them, but a big part of me also realizes that I gave them a means to contact me. I'll reach out to my closest peeps, anybody else...ball is in their court.
I'm just done supporting shitty companies. I'm a stubborn son-of-a-bitch when it comes to my principles, but it can make for a lonely existence at times.
W ostatnim odcinku pierwszego sezonu ICD Weekend Arek i Kuba opowiadają o newsach dotyczacych Facebooka, Apple i AI oraz dzielą się nowymi rekomendacjami aplikacji z F-Droida.
The European Union has opened a formal investigation into Meta over concerns it isn’t doing enough to safeguard the mental and physical health of children, reports @theverge.
The probe will assess whether Meta has breached rules under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), noting that Facebook and Instagram’s UI and algorithms may cause “behavioral addictions in children.” There are also concerns that Meta isn’t doing enough to prevent minors from accessing inappropriate content, and that its age-verification tools may not be “reasonable, proportionate, and effective.”
EU-Kommission leitet Verfahren gegen Facebook-Mutter Meta ein
Die EU-Kommission hat ein Verfahren gegen Meta eröffnet. Brüssel wirft Meta vor, hauseigene Dienste so zu konzipieren, dass sie bei Kindern und Jugendlichen Suchtverhalten auslösen könnten.
From what I gather, today Facebook unilaterally flagged heaps of Humanitix links and events as spam and deleted them.
That's people's livelihoods on the line.
But it's the price we pay for collectively trusting one centralised company with our entire social lives online. Especially one that gives its decisions over to algorithms rather than humans.
Nieuzywany #facebook zglupial u mnie do tego stopnia, ze zaczyna mi sugerowac do sledzenia fan page z jakimis zdjeciami wygenerowanymi przez #AI (najczesciej zdjecia mniej lub bardziej ubranych kobiet 😆 )
Booooze, gdybysmy tylko mieli alternatywe na fejsa... :kappa:
"Facebook users who deactivated their accounts for six weeks before the 2020 U.S. presidential election weeks may have been less likely to cast a vote for Trump [...]."
I turned off both "background data usage" and "rub in background" on #facebook app on #android and yet still I get notifications about posts I don't even care about 😒
Die Menschen lassen sich gerne betrügen und wenn die es mal "lösen", dann werden sie als Profis uns Spezies dargestellt. Ne, die sind es auf keinen Fall!
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