• Pumpkin Escobar
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    82 months ago

    no fact checking and a ton of bots being added? Sounds like a fantastic place to spend time. /s

  • @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de
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    132 months ago

    that’s some glorious schadenfreude

    zuck just few hours ago: “people who talk about leaving facebook are just virtue signalling”

  • TomMasz
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    -52 months ago

    I’m waiting to see what happens before I make any moves. I’ve been on Meta apps for over a decade, I don’t want to lose the connections if I don’t have to.

    • TomMasz
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      12 months ago

      I know this got a lot of downvotes, that’s fine. Most of my friends are not tech-savvy or young, they’re not going to be signing up for Lemmy or Mastodon. I’m not ready to lose touch with them entirely. I have taken steps to limit what info Meta can collect from me and stopped posting there entirely. I check in now and then to see if there’s anything big, but that’s it.

    • Gormadt
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      How many of those connections would you say are actively maintained instead of just passively there?

      Those that are actively maintained you can likely send them something like Signal and start chatting on that instead.

  • @masquenox@lemmy.world
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    -32 months ago

    Critics see the move as an attempt to cater to the incoming Trump administration and avoid political retaliation,

    Give me a break. Since when does the billionaire parasite class have anything to fear from the US establishment?

    • mesamuneOP
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      72 months ago

      It’s silly they don’t just delete it instead they make you wait…

    • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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      62 months ago

      i worry about (future, AI enhanced) impersonation attempts so I just keep it secure and don’t post anything.

        • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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          12 months ago

          my grandma is still alive, some other family as well. with AI voice cloning and things i just foresee a lot of negative possibilities. maybe in another decade nobody i know would be on those places as well, hopefully there is some alternative for keeping up with family and old colleagues etc.

            • @jdeath@lemm.ee
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              12 months ago

              unfortunately can’t jet across the country regularly, as much as i might wish. and sometimes calls happen over (guess what) fb messenger. not everything is a conversation, but meta products cover a lot of ground beyond status updates at this point.

              • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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                12 months ago

                They do, but is that actually helping build your relationship? Or does it make you feel like you’re more connected than you are and justify calling/visiting a bit less?

  • @rickdg@lemmy.world
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    222 months ago

    Once these platforms are perceived as a way for people to make a living somehow, they ain’t leaving. That’s why nice places like mastodon stay niche. Without virality, people don’t see the upside for them. They want a grift they can understand.

    • @Zink@programming.dev
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      62 months ago

      That is sounding more and more like a benefit to me. Social media that functions as social media for humans and not just another giant corporate surveillance and marketing machine wearing a fun app costume.

      • @rickdg@lemmy.world
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        22 months ago

        I get it, but I also understand people that need to go “this is me, can I have some money?” on social media.

        • @Zink@programming.dev
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          12 months ago

          Oh yeah no disagreement there. The way that social media of all types democratizes content creation and celebrity status is great.

          For me personally, the YouTube model is great where individuals can basically produce their own TV show or documentaries. But all the other big corporate social media services are meh in comparison. When it comes to interaction rather than consuming, that’s when I love Lemmy.

  • @hypnicjerk@lemmy.world
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    282 months ago

    i’m so tired of nothingburger feel good ‘stories’ about search trends

    this really is just reddit lite

  • @kipo@lemm.ee
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    332 months ago

    According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

    So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

    I wish stories like this wouldn’t use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

    • JackbyDev
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      So true… When I see 100% more, I interpret it as 2x. But somewhere around, idk, maybe 300% I interpret “300% more” as 3x. I know that’s technically not correct, but it’s just where my brain goes. I think a good deal of people just throw around “n% more” and “n% as often” interchangeably without much thought.

      Luckily, the bigger the number the less of a difference between the two which is aligned with my brain using them the same.

      (And obviously, if it’s anything technical where it matters I would get clarification.)

  • @Magister@lemmy.world
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    42 months ago

    I don’t care about Facebook, but Messenger and Marketplace I cannot replace them at all for the moment :-/

    • @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Instead of market place I use buy nothing, and offer up, and just give to my local goodwill.

      There’s a buy nothing app. It’s a free community run organization for local things that started on Facebook then they made an app and website. It’s all give away stuff but I’ve gotten some really nice & expensive stuff off there and given a lot away too. It’s not as active as their Facebook buy nothing groups, but now maybe that will change. I refuse to use Facebook since I watched my mom turn into a crazy conspiracy trump shit person in 2020.

      Ive even made friends with a few people through a few exchanges to them over time on buy nothing, like a nice old lady that I give fruit to from my garden and she makes jam out of it and gives me some back

  • @nutsack@lemmy.world
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    92 months ago

    he’s replacing it with community notes, which is a good thing. the problem i have with Facebook and Instagram is all the useless junk videos that i didn’t ask for and it keeps showing me

      • @Donkter@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        Community saw this as a potential note and agreed that it isn’t provably true and doesn’t contribute to the post. Rejected and it won’t be shown.

        If you think this method doesn’t work I have an entire Wikipedia to show you.

          • @SolaceFiend@lemmy.world
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            12 months ago

            The bad faith actors used to outnumber the good. That’s why Wikipedia’s reputation has never recovered, and they’ve never been able to beat the allegations. However, Wikipedia fixed what was wrong with their system of citing and verifying information contributed by others years ago. And X’s Community Notes system has a similar mechanism in place that has proven to be equally as effective and verifiable.

    • @tempest@lemmy.ca
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      72 months ago

      Since Facebook market place is the defacto classified now I keep my account around to buy and sell. My feed is full of AI generated images related to anything I search on market place. Right now it is all trucks because I was looking for truck tires.

    • luce [they/she]
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      22 months ago

      Just because they are calling it community notes doesnt mean that Facebooks notes would work the same way as Xitters notes.

  • @Eudocimus@lemm.ee
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    62 months ago

    I have no clue why anyone takes this seriously or is concerned about this. I have seen maybe three fact-checks during my lifetime on Facebook. That was a long long time ago. I disagreed with two of them and I am not sure if the third one said anything interesting.

    Is there a population somewhere I am not aware of, who believes everything they see on Facebook, who will now be ruined by this change?

    • @Baguette@lemm.ee
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      212 months ago

      I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They’re allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

      • @hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de
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        32 months ago

        Never seen FB disallow fake news or hate speech as long as it is coming from the (extreme) right.

        Either they just stop pretending now or irl somehow get even worse?

        • @Baguette@lemm.ee
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          12 months ago

          They censored certain phrases and words, which they plan on no longer enforcing. I agree that they leave hate speech on the platform (reports rarely do anything) but the looser restrictions mean people can post even more hateful content and that paves the way for discrimatory ideologies

      • @SolaceFiend@lemmy.world
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        The anonymous fact-checking is the main thing PEOPLE took issue with. Like, oh I’m supposed to believe your anonymous fact-checkers know better than me or my trusted sources on what’s true/false, but you refuse to identify or provide the credentials of those fact-checkers, so their integrity and validity can be certified?

        But it’s not the anonymous strangers arbitrarily sifting the wheat from the chaff willy nilly, and with no evidence to support their claims, that were the problem /s. , The problem was CLEARLY the people who took issue with an anonymous rando who has the power to declare a reputable source of info is lying, can not be disputed on that front (even in the many instances of them being wrong), and whose credentials can not be verified but is still supposed to be arbitrarily accepted as the supreme arbiter of reality and fiction.

        Bought and paid for by a soulless corporation. I’ll take “extreme dought” for $500. I was more likely to believe in Santa Clause than an anonymous figure who had no credentials or checks and balances of any kind.

    • @Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      72 months ago

      The usual suspects of Gen Boomer and X that first preached to not believe anything on the internet and yet doing exactly that without an external fact check.

      Personally for stuff I don’t really care, I will always say “Allegedly (…)” before stating something a website says. If the stuff is important (to me or a peer) I might look harder into it.