#Meta $META down 14% overnight. I see a large "nib" in the 5 year chart during 2022 that may force a retest of 52 week lows @$207 USD per share. #facebook #premarket #investing #zuck
Congressional Republicans call my Affordable Connectivity Program – the plan responsible for getting 23 million households affordable internet – 'wasteful.'
Tell that to the mom who used to park outside a restaurant so her child could get online and do homework.
I've blocked threads.net because I don't want #zuck or any other #corporate#socialmedia selling my data.
I don't allow my cellphone provider to sell my #data either.
Opt out!
If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.
But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!
Welp, it just happened. #Zuck became the most followed person in the #Fediverse with a follower count of more than 4 times that of @Mastodon itself
Of course, those are only rough numbers. Most of the people following him are on Threads, and many do not even know anything about decentralized social platforms (or care). People outside of Threads that are following him are few (including myself, now*).
But this is more of a symbolic thing. Once other profiles enable the Fediverse integration, we'll be seeing more and more Threads profiles topping the charts. Or maybe not, who knows. I already start to see many profiles on Threads that stopped posting since quite a while, and I'm wondering if they're still active. Many people on other centralized platforms just call Threads dead already, lol.
OTOH, even the overall atmosphere on Threads just seems to be... subpar to say the least. I really don't feel I could learn anything from the people out there, apart from a few dozen interesting profiles that are simply just hard to find - they were hard to find on Insta, they are hard to find there as well. If, for whatever reason, Threads were to simply turn the federation off abruptly, I wouldn't feel anything of value would be lost apart from these profiles, at least for me. I wonder how long it will take until it will be just another enshittified, ad-ridden, useless platform, just like the other two in #Meta's portfolio are, all filled with trolls, bots, scammers and propaganda accounts of the Kremlin-backed modern far-right that spread the lies and nonsense.
If you have a presence on Mastodon, yet you'd also love to try out Threads, you're not missing anything. Really. This place is just way better, and it centers not around advertisers, but around you.
*you traitor, how dare you follow the Satan over this place? well, I actually thought it out for a bit. And I don't know if I'll keep the follow on the long term either. But this is just part of my way to #quitfacebook, as funny as it may seem. It is just one of the many active accounts/pages that I still follow on that cesspit, so I thought, why not.
I also have a habit of checking my profile from various servers, and I'm having a hard time seeing even my popular posts. So I can say #Friendica keeps me quite protected from the aforementioned. Plus that Meta doesn't have any ads to serve me around this place.
#Zuck will not see your #Mastodon replies back over on his original post on #Threads; any replies to him at his original post over on Threads do not propagate outward onto the clone post you see over here on Mastodon
It's a smokescreen, a mirage
A fraud, basically, all the #Meta PR notwithstanding
Here
Go look and see if you can find any replies from Mastodon
@seachanger I've been wanting the #fediverse place to succeed for years 5 years prior to the twitter migration. My biggest driver was I was sick and tired of the evil that for-profit social media produces. #Zuck alone is responsible for the rise of 5 fascist leaders and 2 genocides. I was tired of them creating something based on community and connections and once they went public, killing all those things and slowly replacing it with showing ads and content in your face and making it impossible to see anything people you actually followed had to say. The people I follow and interact with now are the same as #myspace and #facebook before they went public, a league of extraordinary nobodies with genuine posts and not one's being as cheap, vapid and shallow as they have to be to appease the now non-existent algorithm to get famous or have "cred". Everyone is being their genuine awkward selves here. No one is hyper polished to the point of faking it. That creates vulnerability that makes real community thrive
If you head over to Instagram and go to Heather Cox Richardson's page or my page, you'll find the first episode of something that we plan to do regularly; we're two historians looking at the news.
This was our first stab. Watch for more! We'll announce new episodes as they appear. (Can't tell you how happy I am to be history-hanging-out with Heather again!)
#Zuck = #Musk. RW (mostly GOP) CEOs can't be trusted:
"155M impressions should be a bipartisan 5 alarm fire in this moment. “Meta’s failure to ID a coordinated ad campaign featuring dozens of inauthentic pages, deepfake videos, & pro-RU disinfo. run by a sanctioned indiv…” -J Kint
Would #meta get in trouble with EU govts if #threads didn't provide evidence of working towards interoperability before being available there? Cause I believe that starts tomorrow and that's what this extremely basic "maybe you'll be able to see our posts soon" statement by #Zuck etc looks like to me. I'm one of those lefties who thinks corporations only act for profit and never otherwise in the public interest. Maybe I'm just too dumb to see how true federation makes business sense for them.
Foreign meddlers, like CN: successful bc the SM platforms are compromised by R-leaning, anarcho-capitalist owners: #Meta#Facebook#IG#X#Zuck#Musk.
Meta closes nearly 4,800 fake accts in CH that tried to polarize US voters *impersonating Americans spread pol content aiming to divide country ahead of election yr. Newly ID'ed NWK -US foreign adversaries exploit US-based tech platforms to sow discord & distrust & threats: online disinfo. next yr🚨-nat. elections in US... https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/30/china-fake-accounts-facebook-instagram
#Zuck backs dismantling the USG, just like Republicans, #TechBros, #AnarchoCapitalists... They're antidemocratic & fascist, don't want to be regulated & refuse to pay their fair share in taxes. The results of deregulation are devastating & deadly, e.g.:
"What is Facebook’s response to the ugly stories on how it tracks and manipulates children? To apologize? To obey the Federal Trade Commission’s order to stop? Nope. Zuckerberg just asked a court to declare the FTC unconstitutional." -M Stoller
"Always comes back to Meta’s surveillance capitalism. The data & microtargeting of ads while managing the PR & policy risk from the negative externalities of minimizing cost of the content." -J Kint
In the lawsuit against Facebook, Stenson said the prevalence of inappropriate content on IG is low, & that the co invests heavily in reducing it.
IG’s algorithm decides: users might have a prurient interest in children🚨.
Facebook pushes abhorrent RW lies. It's being sued, but that doesn't deter CEO Zuckerberg:
"Over the past month, right-wing conspiracy pages on Facebook have spent $75,000 on video ads promoting false claims of an imminent attack on the U.S. power grid. It uses deep fake audio & allege Biden admin involvement, but Facebook still allows them to run." -Kyle Thorp
#TechBros like #Zuck have aided Republicans in their quest to destroy democracy & along the way harmed children… More evidence of #Facebook’s lies: “Classic Facebook move on Thanksgiving eve. Unsealed nearly every redaction 233 pages in 40+ state AGs lawsuit alleging FB knowingly harmed children's mental health with addiction for profit.” -Jason Kint https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1727600435304059207.html
#TechBros have caused carnage *still free to do harm. #Zuck ignored genocide...:
It wasn't that vile things were happening on Facebook -it was that #Facebook KNEW -the extent of the problems on its platform -ways: might address them & how the dynamics of its social network differed from those of the open internet or offline life.
Leak defenses: predicated on the bet that ppl like Haugen, wouldn’t throw away a golden ticket, or risk the pos. of a lawsuit from a $T co.
Will #Zuck win the case? Are SM's egregious practices so ubiquitous -they can't be held responsible? The lawsuit reps. the broad bipartisan interest in protecting kids & teens from online harm. Meta designed its FB & IG products to keep young users on them for longer & repeatedly coming back, the AGs allege. Several of the practices the AGs focus on for Meta are similar to those exercised by other #SocialMedia bus', such as designing algorithms to keep users engaged.
The EU warns #Zuck, a day after a similar letter was sent to #Musk: Europe gives Mark Zuckerberg 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas conflict and election misinformation:
European regulator Thierry Breton shared a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Wed urging the billionaire to be “vigilant” about removing disinformation. Breton said the EU has been seeing an increase in illegal content and disinformation on “certain platforms” following the Hamas attack on Israel.