Today I posted a picture of a stamp with an animal in it and they said the picture contained nudity and made me take it down, but I reported a photo of a guy with a fully visible swastika tattoo and they said that’s fine.
I’d like to start a Lemmy community with photos of stuff that they refuse to remove called FacebookSaysItsFine.
Just delete your account, stop using it.
but what other honest and trustworthy corporation do I give all this valuable personally-identifiable information to?
I promise if you give it to me it will be secure since I am such a failure of a person I will lose it.
Can you send me page after page of ads and sprinkle in people in third world countries making street food or doing some jank trade work?
I have some pictures from my trips to South East Asia but I don’t think I took any of the street food vendors.
Outrageous. We are giving you our data and we expect an on-demand personalized highly-addictive never-ending flow of dopamine in return
Sigh. Fine, come over tonight and I will give you a gummy edible. However, you have to stay for a bit and chill while I watch Classic Simpsons.
You call this a social media platform?
Are you a venture capitalist with other people’s money? Because if so I have you know that by our own internal methods of calculation we have 10 billion users and zero bots. Our typical user checks their status 800 times an hour for 24 hours a day. Money please.
I find it hard because of my Livejournal friends, it’s the way we’re still in touch.
Exchange your email with your fb friends and toss your fb account in the trash.
I remember I made a Kurt Cobain reference as a joke, and Facebook said I was breaking the rules against suicide or whatever.
Yeah, the same Facebook that was totally fine with an actual violent video I reported
The governments should break up Facebook. It needs to be held accountable.
They removed one of my posts for saying I was going to fight a person that doesn’t exist. It was completely obvious that the entire thing was a joke, and again, the person doesn’t even exist, but I guess that’s a more credible threat than all the actual violence that shows up on that dumpster fire of a site.
The good people left Facebook a long time ago. I would even argue before the place was taken over by boomers.
I think ultimately, it was the share functionality that ruined Facebook, because it was once the place where you keep up with your friends, but then the genuineness of it is gone after you realize they only see their friends as a captive audience to get likes and get a boost for their Farmvilles.
It’s a dehumanizing place, which is why it became a wasteland.
I distinctly remember back in 2010 right before I deleted my Facebook, everytime I logged in I would get depressed and sad.
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Facebook was pretty nifty when it first started and wasn’t evil. It was fun to connect with people from high school I’d never see again otherwise. I’ve restarted some great relationships that way. It’s really unfortunate what trash it turned into.
Almost everyone I know still has Facebook, but no one actually posts on it. Personally I only really use messenger (which they just killed, coincidentally).
What’s this about messenger? I still have it because of that one friend who won’t move.
They are getting rid of the android app at least, presumably to force people back to facebook as they slowly starve. Website still works
After that whole palaver of them breaking it on the mobile site on purpose to get us to install Messenger in the first place?!
FML.
Do it, make the community. I’d subscribe. This post got lots of traction. There’s an audience.
I think I’m going to.
Do it!
Why so much anger? Just stop using it. Apathy is better than anger.
I can’t even remember when I logged into fb last.
I hate that an important tool that we could use for simple socialization and sharing of interests is instead in the hands of people who want to sow disinformation and right wing propaganda. To me, making Nazis ostracized is a value we should all share.
Deleted my account about 10 years ago. At times it was hard, but every time I hear about some new crazy shit they’re doing I can’t help but think I did great.
Got you beat by 1 year :) Deleted my account in 2012 when they changed their terms of use to own rights to everything you upload. And I had never used my real name to begin with.
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I find it hard because it’s where I’m in contact with all of my old Livejournal friends from across the world, and it’s the platform where we can talk to each other still. That’s why.
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They probably value their friendship over the ideological stance of “Facebook bad”.
That is quite the pickle… they want the downfall of the platform they share with their friends, but don’t want to leave that platform.
Too bad there is absolutely no other way that OP can stay in contact with those people. There’s nothing that can be done. /s
I hate listening to voicemails but I also love my grandparents, you know?
Yeah you don’t even need whatsapp(which is also Facebook). I wish more and more people knew about phone link which is installed on every pc. You can just use it like messenger. There’s also Skype. Then You can have a temp phone number in which you don’t have to worry about giving out and someone stealing your passwords to things.
It’s not the same and you know it. I have the same issue with Instagram. Many of our interactions through the platform come from us reacting to each other’s content (posts, stories, comments). Without that you lose a lot of “spontaneous” interaction.
Question is: How much does spontaneous interaction contribute to your life.
For me I found, it’s not much more than a regular, short dopamine rush and lock-in in a certain bubble. Do I know a lot less about people? Sure. Do I miss something in my life? Hell no. That added peace is invaluable and a telephone call from time to time is much better.
That’s a fair question.
Usually not much, so I have too started to log in far less frequently. However, as an example, I did get in touch once again with an old friend thanks to it (and we are still in touch), so it did help quite a bit in that regard. But I understand your point and I have been thinking about leaving the platform anyway due to all the privacy shitshow.
get in touch once again with an old friend
we all had this moment but at this time, it’s unlikely any old friends will join FB/Instagram that haven’t already.
I’d rather use my Facebook groups than Kik to plan swinger events, 100 times out of 100. Kik is so shitty it’s unreal.
There’s really no alternative to FB for what I use it for, since swinger sites are hot garbage and a lot of swingers are all over the map in terms of age. And again, Kik is terrible.
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It i literally the reason I’m on Facebook, so I commented.
I don’t care what you think is cringe and I am quite happy with my life, thanks.
I’m not out here proselytizing non-monogamy man. Not sure why you’re being shitty, unless this is some kind of bit you’re doing? Matches your username.
I think only baby boomers are using facebook now. None of my friends are on fb hence the conclusion.
Facebook market place has completely broken and laid waste to all of its competitors. Every woman with kids I know is using it to buy and sell and give away children stuff.
not in Ireland. Adverts.ie rules the day here, thank god.
Freecycle.org is also still active in most places.
People will go where the stuff is. So, when I have anything of value, I take it to anywhere but Facebook, cause, ya know, you gotta put stuff in the other places
With the US being the shit show it is, I’m looking into leaving and Ireland is on my list of possibilities
you can dm me if you’re serious and want visa advice
Kijiji is still putting up a good fight but I always wonder what I’m missing on marketplace.
I promise you plenty of other people are using it lol.
This was why I left. Last straw was me getting banned for a week because I called someone an asshole for openly calling for violence against trans people. I reported their comment as well.
Mine got me banned. Facebook said they were fine.
I sometimes feel like I should have a tinfoil hat on, but I’m honestly willing to bet that wite supremacy groups got members to get jobs at social media companies to purposefully let them get through the system.
Sure. I totally agree. Your basic clean cut fash in tech jobs. It’s disgusting.
It’s not a conspiracy, and it is present across all social media platforms. There is selective enforcement of rules and moderation and now many companies push ‘engaging’ content, which basically means pressing out and promoting ‘safe’ content that is easily agreeable or controversial to increase user time so more ads are seen.
On Reddit, it is very similar. Somebody can say something insane, but it is ‘just an opinion’ meanwhile you call them an idiot, and you get banned by admins. If you even suggest anything ‘extreme’ you are also getting site banned. It just turns everything into a hive-mind which is dominated by liberals. The fact anyone thinks it is a ‘left-wing’ platform shows how dumb people are. It’s very clear that it is made to drive engagement and show ads to maximise income. These social media companies aren’t interested in free speech or fairness. It actively harms genuine engagement because most people just won’t even post or comment if they know it is risking a ban or downvote train where they get shit on. It’s no surprise the platform is now infested with bots and reposts.
A few years ago, someone my daughter knew from school was posting pictures of her cuts from self harm on Instagram. I reported it to instagram but they didn’t do anything about it.
The problem with unlimited free speech is that it lets the worst people be free to be even worse yet. There is no such thing as ethical absolutism of any kind; it’s just extremism in a flashier suit, and extreme is by its very nature hostile because it can be used to justify literally anything. Especially by true believers.
Every few years someone gets the idea of creating an internet absolute free speech zone and a few months later figures out why it is a terrible idea. It is never people from vicious dictatorships sharing messages about freedom. It is always child porn, scams, spam, and Nazis plotting terrorist attacks.
Anonymity does that, not free speech.
i only keep it because some friends died a while ago and it’s the only trace i have of them left
that’s extremely tragic
That’s also a reason I have it.
Ugh. I would love to stop using it but I need it for school. My college regularly posts information on Facebook groups instead of its own websites and I need Messenger for communication/group work in college.
That would compel me to switch schools
That’s impossible to avoid actually. That’s how all colleges in my country work and generally that’s how life works. Facebook is massive here and Messenger is the most popular instant messaging app among the youth.
Well now I’m very curious: what country are you in?
I’m in South East Asia (won’t reveal more for privacy reasons). Facebook is really popular here.
That’s concerning. Do people seem bothered by this?
No, no one cares. I’m the weird/paranoid one for being weary of data collection by tech companies.
WhatsApp is massive in Asia, except China. They have Wechat over there.
Not the person you’re talking to but I’m in the UK and went back to uni as an adult in 2018. Literally had to install Messenger because it was the only thing the kids used, for the entire duration of our degree. Completely blew my mind!
I kind of like that idea, do we have any Twitter users here to do something like that too?
Oh please Twitter should be fed to the sharks.
Absolutely, I would still like to have a collection of their garbage moderation to point to tho, well if people cut out all the CSAM that is!
Can we feed chunks of reddit into it too?
We should probably make a universal one along the lines of “fine with silicon valley” o something!
I have been extremely addicted to Facebook for a very long time, even though I knew it was a cesspool. The main thing that had kept me there, was that I was running a photography business on the side, and Facebook was unfortunately a great way for clients to find me and reach out to me. I’ve started on a different adventure, and it was so incredibly freeing to blast my Facebook account away yesterday.
I do still miss seeing live updates for the people that I care most about, but Facebook can definitely get fucked, and definitely should die.
Good for you. I hope it feels great.
Thank you! It definitely does :)
How would I know what people’s wordle scores are then?
That’s a fair point. Do you care lol?
I don’t know why FB won’t let us block that crap. If I didn’t care about wordle before do they think pounding me with it 24/7 is going to make me change my mind?
I’d rather not see it either.
