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.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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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?
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Super easy, barely an inconvenience. The age of social media needs to die
Why die, though? There are open source and federated alternatives or there.
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that's some glorious schadenfreude
zuck just few hours ago: "people who talk about leaving facebook are just virtue signalling"
I don't care about Facebook, but Messenger and Marketplace I cannot replace them at all for the moment :-/
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
I only had to google it because they make it so convoluted to find the delete account button.
no fact checking and a ton of bots being added? Sounds like a fantastic place to spend time. /s
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.
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I just need to convince my relatives to use Signal..
sell it to them as an alternative to calls + sms that's free when used over wifi. it already uses phone number as id
He's getting very Trumpy with the orange tint and pale skin around the eyes.
His warranty is about to expire
That's just him using a tanning bed.
Trumps too lazy to even use one.
He needs to slow it down because it's very noticably aging him. Kids, don't bake your skin in cancer rays just for some outdated 80s "bronze" Baywatch look.
Actually, maybe he needs to do even more sessions now that I think about it.
Usually his eyes are the same color as his skin. So good for him on trying to improve himself.
Other than that he can fuck off lol
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People should've dropped FB back in 2016 or when the Cambridge Analytica happened.
Yep, but the second best time would be now.
It was that combined with the fact that they create shadow profiles for your unborn child when your wife is pregnant. (Found out through FB being allowed to track your browsing history even off the app). That was the final straw right after the Cambridge Analytica issue.
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It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones and cant be uninstalled and in some phones they dont preinstall the main fb app instead they'd have something like 'facebook manager' or 'something service' which only shows up in app list when you select the "show system apps" option.
Just use UAD to disable the service, easy
It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones
Those are typically carrier-sold phones.
Most unlocked phones purchased directly from the manufacturer (or via a retail store like BestBuy) do not have it pre-installed, and even if it is, its removable.
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I've read stories that fb is basically the internet for countries in Africa. It's their version of America Online, but much worse.
In mexico most (if not all) cell service providers give social media for free, ie it uses no data in your phone plan.
What is social media, according to these companies? Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram. That's it. Everyone uses Facebook marketplace and WhatsApp for everything, because it's "free".
I think most people don't understand the stranglehold Meta has over a huge portion of the world's population. I'm confident this arrangement is not only going on in mexico.
Worst part is the only free part is the texting, any kind of multimedia will consume data, but people never read what they sign and then get mad when they run out... And then they sign for a bigger data plan to compensate instead of adjusting their usage.
That's a great strategy for creating a stranglehold on the market. I hate it.
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Gud gud