Cocopanda ( @Cocopanda@futurology.today ) English1•2 hours agoLost my 20 year old FB account. Because I responded to a blatant “The South Will Rise Again” terror post by a bot. I as a joke said. “Can’t wait to meet you in battle.” and that was enough to ban me there. FB is protecting the hateful bigots that click on the Ai content.
Cocopanda ( @Cocopanda@futurology.today ) English1•2 hours agoLost my 20 year old FB account. Because I responded to a blatant “The South Will Rise Again” terror post by a bot. I as a joke said. “Can’t wait to meet you in battle.” and that was enough to ban me there. FB is protecting the hateful bigots that click on the Ai content.
magnetosphere ( @magnetosphere@fedia.io ) 72•5 days agoStreisand effect: I had never heard of the “network state” until now. Uh, thanks for being such an asshole, Zuck!
Notyou ( @Notyou@sopuli.xyz ) English35•5 days agoI just found out like a week ago. Look up techno feudalism. Apparently these guys have been talking about it for a long time.
Sauerkraut ( @Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de ) English26•4 days agoReddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary
melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English3•3 days agowhat’s the difference between government censorship, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government where certain phrases are randomly declared punishable by death?
undone ( @undone@lemm.ee ) English1•4 days agoWhat does shadow banning typically look like? I would assume you don’t get a notification? How do you find out?
dumblederp ( @dumblederp@aussie.zone ) English4•3 days agoLogout and browse your user profile page via old.Reddit it’ll say banned or suspended.
undone ( @undone@lemm.ee ) English3•3 days agoAh. That’s even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.
melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•3 days agoyou do a thing, but there are no interactions. maybe in only certain contexts. so to you it appears as if you’re engaging, but your posts and sometimes reactions/votes don’t show up except to you.
undone ( @undone@lemm.ee ) English2•3 days agohaha. seeing as I don’t usually get much interaction I would never notice.
switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same… there is a good chance with all that’s going on.
melpomenesclevage ( @melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English2•3 days agoyeah I probably wouldn’t notice if everyone else in town was replaced by robots tomorrow until I went and tried to feed randos and found they didn’t eat anymore.
Crazazy [hey hi! :D] ( @Crazazy@feddit.nl ) English2•4 days agoHow do you find out?
I assume looking at reddit through an incognito window and seeing none of your posts appearing
undone ( @undone@lemm.ee ) English1•3 days agoHmm. Will try it some time. Sometimes it feels like being shadow-banned… but TBH it’s more likely just not so active communities / mediocre contribution on my part.
Billybob22 ( @Billybob22@feddit.uk ) English20•4 days agoShut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business’s are worthless without our accounts.
It’s a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.
Daelsky ( @Daelsky@lemmy.ca ) English4•4 days agoAgreed.
rumba ( @rumba@lemmy.zip ) English18•4 days agoEveryone needs to GTFO facebook. We can hardly do it because every other HOA and School PTA is there, but we get stop using messenger and stop having personal discussions over there.
psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English1•5 hours agoI was fortunate that my partner never used Facebook, so I got to hold “communication with their sibling/child” over their heads and get the family chat onto signal. That was my last thing I had to do before I could delete my account
The most fun was sending a message to each of the Facebook friends: hi (name) I’m deleting my Facebook account, if you want to contact me online I can be reached on signal at (signal ID)
rumba ( @rumba@lemmy.zip ) English1•4 hours agoMy wife and I were on Facebook Messenger a lot. Then she started pointing out every time we would talk about any topic she would get ads for it. I talked her into using signal.
We added the teenager into it, now the only serious problem I have is the little one could stand to be on the family chat in signal but he doesn’t have a phone number.
I tried making an account for him with my Google voice number, for some reason it refused on his Wi-Fi only tablet. So I made him an account using my real phone number, then remade my account using my Google voice number on my phone which worked, But now his signal account flips back and forth between his name and my name and it’s just very confused. It’s good enough but I wish there was some way you could do signal without having to do a phone number. Especially a sub account for kids you know…
psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) English1•3 hours agoI thought I heard recently about signal allowing a different ID system, but I think that’s about not having to share your phone number, as against them IDing you with a phone number which I expect they will keep doing
Jimius ( @Jimius@lemmy.ml ) English13•4 days agoDon’t accept it when organizations require you to sign up and hand over personal information to private and commercial third parties. Requiring Facebook is an active attempt at curbing participation.
rumba ( @rumba@lemmy.zip ) English1•4 days agoOh they can’t force you. You can always rely on the pta just to send you papers home and backpacks and you don’t really need to talk to your neighbors or have them report problems in a public forum
There’s enough value for these places that I still go back to Facebook for it, they’re not forcing me. They just make it worth it.
grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) English3•2 days agoYeah that’s them network effects
Pax ( @Pax@lemmy.ca ) English6•4 days agoContact those places and ask for an alternative -the less people participate the quieter the discussions the more likely they are to at least try to switch over if they start feeling some pressure.
rumba ( @rumba@lemmy.zip ) English2•4 days agoI agree that it needs to happen but contacting these places and asking them for an alternative is a lot like contacting a deep sea tube worm and asking it to learn brain surgery.
They’re probably capable of moving from one social platform to another, But it’s a lot of work and they’re destroying their network every time so they’re highly resistant.
If Apple wasn’t such a pain in the ass about notification services We could probably crowdsource NTFY and let everyone use it for schools non-profits and such
The best we could expect us for them to move to Blue sky. Health in my case half of them just recently moved off Twitter.
Zzyzx ( @Zzyzx@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•4 days agoYeah, I dumped facebook right after the election but unfortunately most of my friends and family are only on WhatsApp.
rumba ( @rumba@lemmy.zip ) English3•4 days agoWhatsApp is a serious problem. There are quite a number of countries that are running a lot of their business through it.
segabased ( @segabased@lemmy.zip ) English41•5 days agoThis man has a bunker and everything. He’s scared shitless and he is ready to hide. Their assets need to be seized and accounts drained
SmokeytheBeard1 ( @SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.ee ) English16•5 days agoHis bunker on a Hawaiian Island. Dude really wants to be far away from everything when shit pops off.
Fluffy Kitty Cat ( @fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ) English14•5 days agoWhat I’m hearing is that after we overthrow the government and Destroy capitalism we have to dig him out of a bunker in Hawaii and put him on trial
imvii ( @imvii@lemmy.ca ) English12•5 days agodig him out of a bunker in Hawaii and put him on trial
Just weld the door closed. Problem solved.
SmokeytheBeard1 ( @SmokeytheBeard1@lemm.ee ) English6•5 days agoI’ve never been to Hawaii, but I’ll show up for that 😎
MyOpinion ( @MyOpinion@lemm.ee ) English37•5 days agoWe are already living in a country being run by Elon Musk.
Muffi ( @Muffi@programming.dev ) English4•5 days agocorporation*
WatDabney ( @WatDabney@fedia.io ) 23•5 days agoThe Network State is just feudalism updated to accommodate a new set of vile and toxic elitist shitheads.
jjjalljs ( @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ) English22•5 days agoDelete your facebook products.
If you know someone who works at facebook, try to convince them to leave.
If you see someone who’s in a leadership position at Facebook bleeding out, perhaps after a car accident because their brakes were sabotaged, let them die.
umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) English6•5 days agoi wish. if i delete whatsapp ill be completely isolated, even from some businesses. sadly they cornered the entire market in my country including sms.
it would unironically take a big outage for everyone to move though. heres hoping an industrious hacker is willing to paint that kind of target on their own back.
jjjalljs ( @jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ) English7•5 days agoi’ve been trying to get people to switch platforms for years. it’s not easy. if only people cared more about things than they want convenience…
Mongostein ( @Mongostein@lemmy.ca ) English12•4 days agoOh, this is the 15-minute cities they’re scared of.
Fucking insane how these people twist a good idea in to something evil, then support the evil version of that idea.
reiterationstation ( @reiterationstation@lemm.ee ) English2•4 days agoI think they do that on purpose. These powerful players not the idiots voting for them.
ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed ( @IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English11•5 days agoDelay, Deny, [redacted]
jsomae ( @jsomae@lemmy.ml ) English7•4 days agofuck facebook
HappinessPill ( @HappinessPill@lemmy.ml ) English6•4 days agoWelcome to Facebook the capital of Meta country, jokes aside, they are banning because it’s a long term thing and they are scared of it derailing if too many people know.
melsaskca ( @melsaskca@lemmy.ca ) English3•4 days agoZuckerberg, go play with your BBS and let us worry about what needs to be discussed in this myopic, dystopic world.