@RL_Dane my family was mostly radicalized by the right. There are folks on the right who figured out they could weaponize Facebook community standards bot to get progressives removed for 30 day stretches. “Seditious fuck(Donnie) deserves a bullet in the head.” That’ll get you locked out. “The halls of the Capitol should have been painted red with blood of its occupants.” Facebook was cool with that one. I reported that twice. No, that’s fine. Tell me what the difference is.
Wow, dang. I'm sorry to hear your family succumbed to the siren song of hate. :'(
As someone who used to be a wee bit on the right, I hate that with a passion.
It's sad to look back on conversations with coworkers and the like 20 years ago and realize what raving racists they were. It just wasn't as obvious back then. :(
I've tried to come back to facebook, but my little bell icon is just lousy with fake notifications like "Hey, you wanna interact with this post??" kinda stuff. It turns me right the hell off.
For me, the fediverse feels like a cozy little tavern. No one cares that you know nobody. You get your ale, sit somewhere and talk to everyone about everything. And suddenly it's 2am, you're dancing on the table with 3 complete strangers and when you fall into bed, you're already looking forward to the next evening.
@RL_Dane same vibes when I started in the Internet wit IRC and mailing lists, and all the interaction were driven by people instead of big tech companies.
@amatas@RL_Dane Hell yeah. You’ve got a serious technical discussion with a couple Firstname Lastname PhD types, a few inconspicuous folks, and a couple furries. It’s amazers.
Yeah, where else can you have a serious discussion with actual researchers, random programmers, activists, and whatnot? All without that horrendous algorithmic rage-farming!! :D
@RL_Dane@amatas I remember talking to people about Mastodon versus Facebook and I told them:
“The folks here, whoever they are, whatever they are, are a thousand times more ‘real’ than most of the posts I see and read on Firstname-Lastname social media.”
It’s absolutely true. It makes this an incredibly special place.
@RL_Dane That said, there are lots of friends and family I would encourage to join me here. They'll send me the odd thing on a Meta site for example, then text me so I see it before the next quarter.
@RL_Dane Some was easy (e.g. never really being an Instagram person), other bits were more challenging. I had used Facebook for quite a while, then decided to nuke my account.
I tried sending a message to each of my contacts, e.g. where else to reach me if interested, and kept getting slapped by their systems that reduce spam.
I did recreate an account so I could contact my kid on Messenger when he let his cell plan lapse, but otherwise, my wife just tells me highlight tidbits occasionally.
The weird thing about Facebook is that most of my friends on there are people that i know really well in real life, but all of our interactions on that platform (when i used to actually use it) mostly get nonsense and poopposting.
Interacting with people who hate people like me, but "not me, I'm one of the good ones" and watching silently as they post hate memes?
No, thanks.
This is one of the reasons I learned English, in the first place. To interact with a wider, more diverse group, and so that my irl people won't be able to enter this safe haven (they only speak Spanish).
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