After years of Meta insisting its content moderation was essential for platform health, Zuckerberg’s sudden embrace of fake “free speech” is having exactly the consequences anyone…
In a better world, I might hope for this to be the beginning of the end for social media and online ads. In this one, well…
I was the last of my immediate family on Facebook, and I only stuck around to keep in touch with a couple hobby groups. I decided to cut the cord once Zuck went mask-off, and honestly I haven’t regretted it. The family group text is still chugging along fine, and most of the people I actually want to talk to are on other platforms at this point.
I don’t blame anybody who feels like they have to keep Facebook to stay in touch with loved ones… but man, it feels good not to have that spammy time suck on my phone anymore.
I logged in a few months ago to deal with something with my Quest, and holy shit.
I didn’t follow many people, but every post was some AI generated sexy-single-in-my-area nonsense trying to convince me that I need to call them right now for the hot sex, or something.
It was fucking bizarre and I’m utterly confused as to what in the hell is going on, since if they’re showing me that shit, you know they’re shoveling it at everyone too? Like, I cannot fathom why anyone would willingly put up with that shit for cat pictures or whtaever the hell boomers use it for.
I’m having this discussion with friends. We created a new signal group but some refuse to install signal, because having another app is “too distracting”, and using Meta is OK because we also all use Google/Apple products and some people are on instagram.
My experience with my friends and family:
I left Facebook a long time ago and never looked back.
Instagram and WhatsApp too! I am free from meta now.
I was the last of my immediate family on Facebook, and I only stuck around to keep in touch with a couple hobby groups. I decided to cut the cord once Zuck went mask-off, and honestly I haven’t regretted it. The family group text is still chugging along fine, and most of the people I actually want to talk to are on other platforms at this point.
I don’t blame anybody who feels like they have to keep Facebook to stay in touch with loved ones… but man, it feels good not to have that spammy time suck on my phone anymore.
Never bothered with the app to begin with, the mobile website works just fine.
The Facebook algorithm doesn’t show posts from the people you follow only in homeopathic quantities anyway. The rest is junk.
I logged in a few months ago to deal with something with my Quest, and holy shit.
I didn’t follow many people, but every post was some AI generated sexy-single-in-my-area nonsense trying to convince me that I need to call them right now for the hot sex, or something.
It was fucking bizarre and I’m utterly confused as to what in the hell is going on, since if they’re showing me that shit, you know they’re shoveling it at everyone too? Like, I cannot fathom why anyone would willingly put up with that shit for cat pictures or whtaever the hell boomers use it for.
Took me way to long to realise you mean the VR headset…
I’m having this discussion with friends. We created a new signal group but some refuse to install signal, because having another app is “too distracting”, and using Meta is OK because we also all use Google/Apple products and some people are on instagram.
Just leave them behind if they can’t be arsed.
They need to check out Friendica to make it stick.
Hopefully some will still leave in time. I should have left reddit years before I did.