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mox ( mox@lemmy.sdf.org )  to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 2 years ago

John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives

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  • MystikIncarnate ( MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ) 
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    2 years ago

    Say what you want about John Oliver, he’s not always right, and doesn’t nearly cover everything about a topic ever, but he’s out there doing good work for the people.

  • Mac ( Mac@mander.xyz ) 
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    We need a decentralized, general marketplace.

    • fxomt [abandoned account] ( fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) Banneddeleted by creatorBanned
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      Removed by mod

      • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 ( Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 
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        There’s a Lemmy community for it fyi: !flohmarkt@lemmy.ca

      • Mac ( Mac@mander.xyz ) 
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        Yeah, I’ve seen that but no US instances, let-alone local-ish ones.

        I honestly think everyone should go back to Craigslist.

  • Lenny ( Lenny@lemmy.zip ) 
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    Maybe this will actually make you ever so slightly less valuable to meta in the short term (presuming they honor your choices for these settings), but they’re still going to continue harvesting your data and can change their minds at any point in the future. Only way to truly become less valuable is to disappear from their gaze.

    • Hirom ( Hirom@beehaw.org ) 
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      Tweaking a couple settings is a pretty tame way to fight Meta.

      Organise a move from Meta/FB/Insta to the fediverse together with your folks, and close the accounts. This way you don’t loose important contacts during the move, and Meta loose more users.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮  ( Kolanaki@pawb.social ) 
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    I would like a VR headset that is comparable in hardware and price to the Quest 3, that also isnt owned by ByteDance. Pretty much only two options; Meta’s Quest 3 or ByteDance’s Pico 4. 😞

    • FreeBird ( FreeBird@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) deleted by creator
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      I am not into VR stuff but is the VR headset made by Valve not good?

      • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮  ( Kolanaki@pawb.social ) 
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        It’s okay now. It’s not the highest fidelity you could get, it’s rather expensive, and it has to be tethered to a PC. The Quest and the Pico are half the price of the Index, have better quality displays, lighter headsets, and can run wirelessly without the need for a PC or tracking base stations.

        When it was new? Hell yeah, I would have spent a little more to get an Index. They were the best at one point.

      • retro ( retro@infosec.pub ) 
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        It’s definitely dated and much more expensive for that older hardware. And that’s only in the US. If you live outside of the US, grey market import only and way more expensive.

      • Taasz/Woof ( MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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        Its extremely expensive and a bit dated because it needs external lighthouses.

  • dirtycrow ( dirtycrow@programming.dev ) 
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    For purely political reasons. These users will join and then forget about it after a week because the platforms are different.

    • Sauerkraut ( Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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      Defeatism is exhausting. We have to try everything we can think of and fight Oligarchy from every angle we can

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