@joel Facebook is too big to fail. It has two billion people, people who use social media like they use the bathroom, a few minutes here, and there between chores. They're not invested in the network for hours at a time like people on the fediverse, threadiverse, etc. The problem is that those on Facebook are very hard to shift, and yet timelines are empty.
It's a paradox that Facebook is so huge, and yet friends are so quiet, due to the algorithms. I get the impression that no one uses Facebook anymore, and yet it has two billion users. I stopped using Facebook during the first lockdown. People were behaving in a toxic manner and I decided to quit.
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In the current era when you install a new web browser it will ask you which old browser you want to import your data from. It will also allow you to create an account with the browser company to keep it synched. You can swap browsers daily if you like. It's relatively quick to do.
It bothers me when people think of social network use as addiction. If you went to a bar, restaurant, work or school you wouldn't see it as an addiction. I think that seeing social media as addictive is especially harmful when Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok use it to do immoral things. They hide behind the "but they're addicts anyway, so what does it matter?" Social networks are not addictive. They're compelling.
Does this mean that married people are addicts, to each other? Think the absurdity of calling social media addictive. It devalues our online communities to use such words.
Does this mean that married people are addicts, to each other? Think the absurdity of calling social media addictive. It devalues our online communities to use such words.
A. No one cares
B. Stop making him visible.
C. May he be forgotten by history.
What a horrible little weasel he was. (he's still alive, I'm just happy we don't hear about him anymore.
B. Stop making him visible.
C. May he be forgotten by history.
What a horrible little weasel he was. (he's still alive, I'm just happy we don't hear about him anymore.
On mastodon and calckey migrating from instance to instance is easy. I don't see it as a feature on kbin yet.
My opposition to Facebook joining the Fediverse, through threads, is that everything that Facebook touches, becomes garbage. Instagram was a fantastic photo sharing app, until Facebook bought it, destroyed the community, and then changed the app from photo sharing to video sharing. Most of the people my age were part of Facebook, when it was young, vibrant, and a network of friends of friends.
We chose to leave Facebook for a reason. We chose to leave Instagram for a reason. For the leeches to then come, and invade yet another space is frustrating. We made a conscious choice to break from our Facebook friends, and Instagram friends, and now Meta wants to invade the Fediverse.
For me, it's not about protocols. It's about their habit of invading and destroying communities. Twitter was invaded and destroyed. With Twitter's demise, I considered dumping social media, altogether. Reddit reacted so strongly to their own changes, because we have seen how badly Twitter is being treated today. Reddit doesn't want to allow that to happen to them. For clarity when I say Reddit, I mean the Reddit community, not the Reddit owners and shareholders.
We chose to leave Facebook for a reason. We chose to leave Instagram for a reason. For the leeches to then come, and invade yet another space is frustrating. We made a conscious choice to break from our Facebook friends, and Instagram friends, and now Meta wants to invade the Fediverse.
For me, it's not about protocols. It's about their habit of invading and destroying communities. Twitter was invaded and destroyed. With Twitter's demise, I considered dumping social media, altogether. Reddit reacted so strongly to their own changes, because we have seen how badly Twitter is being treated today. Reddit doesn't want to allow that to happen to them. For clarity when I say Reddit, I mean the Reddit community, not the Reddit owners and shareholders.
Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord
Fidelity has further slashed the estimated worth of its holdings in Reddit and Discord as well as SaaS startup Gupshup. #reddit #greed #valuation #tech
https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation-cut-for-reddit-and-discord/
Facebook behaved immorality. It rebranded as Meta, and now they want to trick some, by saying that Instagram is making a Twitter Clone... Facebook was already Twitter's competition, from 2006 onwards.
This is my long-winded way of saying "nope".
This is my long-winded way of saying "nope".