Reminds me of how after WW2 people stopped calling their kids Adolf or even changed their name Adolf into something else. I mean, I’m not saying Zuckerberg is literally Hitler or something, but it sure is funnily similar.
Zuckerberg literally means sugar hill/mountain in German.
As an Austrian, this comment saying that ‘Berg’ translates to both hill and mountain explains a lot about what I’ve seen Germans refer to as Berg. To me it only means mountain.
Most of the time it does mean mountain. But I did hear it used for hill once, but that’s it.
A LOT of the ones I’ve seen Germans refer to as that are hills to me, so maybe it’s normal for some. The way we use it, Berg has to go over the tree line, or at the very least be steep enough at the top to not have vegetation there.
Yeah, isn’t hill hügel/hüble? Currently hiking in DE and just climbed one and it had the signs, too. Now the real question is - at what point is it considered a mountain?
Our definition: either high enough or steep enough to have no vegetation at the top. For some people, only the former definition counts. But from experience, the definition must be different in Germany. Maybe someone from there can chime in to share their definition!
Same thing happened after WW1 too btw. The strong anti-German sentiments across the US and Europe prompted multiple changes. William and Vilhelm became Bills or Ville; Müller became Miller; Schmidt became Smith.
I had a lot of Swedish family who did this from around 1915-1930 and as you said, again after WW2.
What about John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt? Everyone seemed to share a name with him according to lore.
Hey! That’s my name, too!
It’s probably so popular on account of people always shouting it.
See? I knew the different instances of this bot would start fighting each other one day.
Going months at a time without his Facebook account for his legal practice has allegedly cost him thousands of dollars in advertising and communication with clients
Take a hint, get a professional website and don’t rely on Facebook to host your business.
You have to meet clients where they are. These days, clients are far less likely to find you if you only have a site with no social media presence.
I guess… But if your web presence is only on Facebook and that’s the first result I see then … hard pass
Even for companies that have sites, they often get more people contacting them through social media instead of their site. Social media sites tend to have better SEO.
That’s especially the case for younger people as they search Instagram and TikTok more than Google. (https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2024/03/11/genz-dumping-google-for-tiktok-instagram-as-social-search-wins/ ).
That’s my daily battle. I’m looking for something in my country, and there are these “businesses” that only show on Facebook or Instagram, both of which are entirely blocked at the network and device level in my house. So I’ll never do business with them. If you don’t have an actual web site with relevant information, I just keep looking.
Demanding a small business has their own website before you do business with them is peak Lemmy.
This site is way out of touch with what the typical person has the knowledge or time to do.
You’re absolutely correct. Most of us in Lemmy are far from being typical, which is why I love it here.
You’re not wrong. Should it be different? Absolutely. Will it be different? Maybe someday in the distant future.
But ultimately what’s most likely to happen is that the average person is going to keep pressing the dopamine buttons on their pocket rectangles and telling the world about every fart that exits their buttcheeks and if you don’t do that you’re going to get slowly pushed out of society in a similar way to the Amish or Mennonites.
It weirdly reminds me of the mark of the beast from the book of revelation. Apocalyptic literature does so well not because it predicts the future but because it follows the repeating patterns of the past. The world as humans know it has ended and been replaced by something new and utterly bizarre more times than history has recorded and will probably continue to do so more times than we can comprehend.
Each new version of humanity has people that get left behind, or alternatively, who refuse to submit to something horrible no matter how much bigger than them it is. It’s a completely valid stance to take and one I will probably take myself but you do have to make peace with the fact that the rest of society is almost definitely going to pick the dopamine buttons over you.
If you can accept being disconnected, then by all means, live your best life. I’m certainly planning to (although it’s also important to recognize that this is not a purely binary decision).
I can say you’ve probably spoken for me in this post.
I’m old enough to be that guy that wants less people in his life. I’m fine with what little friends I have, my family and my dog’s. The rest is noise, and I’ll deal with it only if I want to, otherwise, there’s plenty of animé, books and documentaries I can fill my solo time with, for the rest, I’ll always have the main 3 I mentioned.
I guess I did turn into that “grumpy old guy” I 🤣🤣
The silver lining of having friends that won’t leave those platforms for nothing in the world is being able to interact with those businesses through them.
You’re absolutely right. I also found that, by leaving those platforms, now I know who my real friends are. Back then it was all chat, social networks and no personal interaction as such. Today, we call each other regularly, get together way more often, and when we say “later man” it can mean any time when we call or meet again, so I get to go back to my own stuff without being constantly interrupted by people constantly sending memes or saying “hi” on some shit platform just to see how long I take to respond.
When I want to get my fill of what’s going on in the things that do interest me, there’s Lemmy, Mastodon, Nostr and actual news (many, so that I can decide what I believe in the media without following political inclinations).
I can honestly say that my mental health, and my life as a whole, has improved exponentially since I made this move. I also get to deal with BS like people trying to justify staying in some platforms, maybe rile them up a bit, and then move on without a care.
Same here
But he has a website… He’s just saying Facebook denied him additional exposure unfairly.
which is the dumbest shit in the world. why the fuck are people on facebook?
It’s *Meta*
Have you tried explaining something to someone lately? A lot of people don’t care and don’t understand. About anything
You could say the same about any social media site really.
The whole point of social media is to communicate with other people. Facebook is the largest one, so if you want to contact a business or person, they’re more likely to be on Facebook than any other site. Probably the main exception are younger people (and companies run by them), where they’re more active on TikTok and Instagram.
Well marketplace basically killed Craig’s list, so that’s one reason.
We gave away computer parts on Craigslist a few months ago. It was a no-stress transaction and the receiver was a sweet old-school computer person building a basic machine for his kids to play Minecraft. Would do again.
we should kill facebook and go back to craigskist.
if we managed to take it down for like a month, the internet would heal itself so quick.
This one irks me. I grabbed an Auto-Trader paper today as I was reminiscing about how local trader-papers used to be a thing. I got my NES and Saxophone that way. I still have one of those. -Then craigslist ended that and now that has been replaced by a website that requires membership to read the listings.
‘People who spend too much time on Facebook’ overlaps with ‘People who need cheap lawyers.’
People are on Facebook because that’s where everyone already is. They won’t leave because then they lose contact with all those people.
I’m on Facebook because many people I communicate or work with and pages and groups relevant to my interests are active there.
I guess understandable for initial discovery, but it’s on the lawyer if they didn’t hand out a contact card with email phone and whatnot to all clients
Devils advocate, perhaps he did and clients still reached out on FB. When he got banned they assumed he ghosted and went with another lawyer.
I would believe that theory. People are dumb enough to make that entirely feasible.
another example of hating the game, not the player
But if your name is Marc Zuckerberg, why not act like you want to and sue.
The attorney is asking for restitution —and a week on Zuckerberg’s yacht.
What
I was in danger of having sympathy for a lawyer, then this brought me back.
Way to take a serious matter and make it comical.
If you look at the actual quote, that is quite editorialized. My reading if the quote was that it was said in jest.
An Indianapolis based bankruptcy attorney, named Mark Steven Zuckerberg, is suing Meta over repeated confusion with CEO Mark Elliot Zuckerberg.
That’s far less crazy than the clickbait headline had me believe.
What did you think the headline meant?
I thought it meant it was the same guy. Like I didn’t know if the FB Mark ever finished college or got a law degree or if he’s representing himself. You know how some people will sue themselves or the company they started so they are the plaintiff and the defense.
The irony of this comment goes through the roof
The weirdest thing is that it wouldn’t be the first time a party has sued itself.
I was actually hoping it was this. My top level response would have been the same though.
Zuckerberg charges Zuckerberg with crime. Jury shrugs, offers death penalty.
That’s taking “legal suicide” to a whole new level. I’m impressed.
Some rich people shit to avoid paying taxes or something like that.
Without a doubt.
It just seemed clear grammatically that this was two separate people.
If it was some oligarch shenanigans instead of “the” it would have been “as a”
That’s the first thing that came to mind.
Some sort of scheme.
Suing for what? Defamation because they think the lawyer is as sleazy as the ceo?
Ah and how exactly is that less crazy?
Because I thought the two were one and the same.
Yeah, I assumed it was some corporate shenanigans where Zuckerberg sues himself and somehow ends up with more money because of it.
To me, that is about as crazy as suing someone for his name.
Thank you for saving me a click.
no way why should i change hes the one who sucks
Everything was fine until that no talent ass clown started making social media sites.
He should just host his own instance and… oh, wait…
A celebrity? Holy fucking ego, batman!
I say make it a cage match. Thunderdome style.
Maybe fb Zuck could follow in the path of the former Ron Artest.
Meta World Conflict?
I’d probably get my name changed even without my accounts getting blocked
Why are they even assuming someone would want to impersonate meta Zuckerberg?
Serious answer: A surprising number of people, especially those who still have Facebook accounts in 2025, are susceptible to scams where someone pretends to be a rich and/or famous person asking for favours or money.
They get a message from a fake Zuck, and because they are dangerously credulous, they believe it is the real Zuck.
Zuck says they’ve been selected, or won a prize, or should send a photo or some such, and then suddenly Zuck’s blackmailing for a compromising photo or otherwise requesting Amazon gift cards or Bitcoin to “unlock” the prize or whatever.
“Zuck’s a rich man who owns the platform. He knows what he’s doing. I’d better look into how to do this Bitcoin thing.”
Facebook knows all this and so any Zucks that are not the Zuck get flagged as scammers and have their accounts shut down.
They’re worried that one of his clones might’ve escaped its “exit interview” and could expose the program. The accelerated aging and memory writing processes aren’t perfect and if one starts to degrade, it may be feel compelled to get on Facebook despite the obvious risk of Meta tracking it down. Lucky side-effect, I guess.
Here are some photos of the- hang on, will have to edit and add those later, somebody’s knocking on my door.
I’m pretty confident this is literally just advertising. Stop promoting this please. The guy is just doing something stupid because people will share it on social media.
Nope. This is a real attorney. I walk by his office downtown.
I’m not saying he’s not real. I’m saying this is an ad. It’s a meme lawsuit to get attention. It isn’t a serious one.
