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    I deleted my Facebook account in 2009. I started an IG account in 2021 that was 100% for comic book stuff. Deleted that one last night.

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    The anti-woke campaigner brought legal action against Meta – … – after the company’s artificial intelligence chatbot falsely stated he took part in the riot at the US Capitol on 6 January, 2021, seeking $5 million in damages.

    Hold up, you can a convince a chat bot to say something bad about you and then sue that company into giving you a job?

    What the fuck is happening right now?

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    From the way American mega-corporations are going all-in on this, it seems like a long-term choice; so I think it’s one of two things: the shareholders are demanding that they go full republican (which isn’t happening AFAIK), or they’re trying to survive because they know something you don’t.

    Disclaimer: not a US citizen/resident, but sad to see this happening tbh.

    Edit: or it’s short-term and caused by Trump pressuring everybody to do controversial stuff in order to distract the public from the Epstein files.

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      Silicon Valley elites quietly became deeply entrenched in some wild god-complex groupthink over the last 5-10 years, and it aligns fairly well with fascism.

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      They are on it just as much as they were on progressive issues very little time ago. Corpos don’t have believes, they do what they think will bring them more money now

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    I love the irony of people trying to make there AI’s not gay.

    BROTHER

    TURING WAS GAY THE GODFATHER OF COMPUTERS.

    oh the irony

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    I’m about to get real mean to people still on FB/insta. Wtf will it take for you people to say no to a shitty social media website?

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      A lack of pictures of my extended family.

      Videos of my nieces figure skating are the primary reason I haven’t deleted my account

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        Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.

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          Yeah, text of his niece figure skating is the same thing as a video. Solid advice!

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            You can put videos in a text thread. I’m on a 31-person thread that has been active for about 15 years. I promise there’s no shortage of videos.

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              Do your text messages allow for decent res video of any running time longer than a few seconds?

              Mine don’t.

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              By “text” here, do you mean Apple chat, SMS, or some other platform?

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                  no that matters a lot. if it’s imessage only it makes sense but if it’s a combination of mms/rcs/imessage, someone is going to get images consisting of like four total pixels.

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              I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect. Shy of handing your bank number to scammers, the “Don’t use your computer to do X, use it to do Y” consumerist internet activism never seems to impact anything. How Big Tech actually does business seems driven by FinTech investment far more than user engagement.

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                I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

                Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There’s the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

                If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”. More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one’s going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook’s going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren’t on there.

                Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

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                  Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world

                  Yes. But I believe it is harmful because of the way it has been leveraged to crowd out the public sector and strangle competitive private alternatives. It has become one wing of a massive tech sector cartel.

                  If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”.

                  That doesn’t logically follow. No more than saying “Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road.” You’re looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.

                  Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket.

                  It’s one node in a massive web. And it’s easy to say “Well, you have to do your part because <insert consumerist morality here>”. But mostly it’s just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There’s no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I’m seriously participating in.

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        Pretty sure you can download that stuff if you want to save it. I could be wrong, though. I deleted FB, Insta, and all that jazz at the start of the dictator’s first term.

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      Just wait until you learn how many leftists are still on Xitter even after 2024 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 when it was Trumps main outlet to win the election.