Let’s not forget to blast the assholes responsible for this (the individuals, not the company) as we all leave the crappy platforms so it doesn’t affect us personally.
Yes the correct answer is don’t be on facebook or anything it owns, but also nobody should be doing this, anywhere. Keep the heat on the bastards.
Also, use a good adblocker to prevent Facebook tracking you as a non-user. Ublock and Privacy Badger are useful.
Wait, I thought they were going to end censorship.
META wouldn’t go and just lie like that, would they?
I rarely use Instagram but am about to delete my account there. Will be ceasing to use Whatsapp too, and hopefully deleting my account. I’m otherwise off of meta products. Only problem I foresee is that when traveling outside the US, everyone tends to want to use WhatsApp.
Edit: anyone recommend a WhatsApp alternative? Privacy and widespread adoption are the top concerns. I’m defaulting back to Signal, but I know there have been some issues with it
Signal is the best option. The only downside being that it relies on your cell number. Otherwise it’s the most secure platform/protocol.
What’s the best option if you don’t want to use your phone number?
closed my treads and instagram accounts today. unfortunately, I still need a FB. For now.
Looks like Zuckerberg got into Trump’s face paint
It’s actually from motorboating trumps ass…
Right-Wingers were never anti-censorship look at how they handle books in school.
It is almost like meta is a terrible company.
Gosh, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call a privacy nightmare terrible… /s
Zuck can eat a bag of dicks. Cancel your account. Stop enabling this rich loser.
Tiktok is doing similar shit like banning words/phrases.
I just want to say that I’m oft amused by the single downvote on common-sense comments such as these. There must be about twelve repub-leaning asshats who go around expressing their dissent and it’s just pathetic. Or, and this would be even more pathetic, one has singled out my account and watches where I post and comment and then single-handedly goes through voting “no, no, no.” I cheerfully wave to you, asshat.
At least three are fewer on Lemmy but yes, those types are absolutely out there. Have an upvote 😏
Meta under fire …
… and not a single person stopped using it.
Naw there’s serious momentum for an exit. Most subreddits are banning X links. Anecdotally a lot of people who I would have never expected have reached out to me about Instagram alternatives. We have power here. Let’s not squander it by pretending we don’t.
I did.
Not really under fire though, are they?
Also not really blocking democrat hashtags.
Was there a story of people automatically following Biden or Obama when they got sworn in?
I don’t remember a red tsunami of tears then.
If you search #trans, or #transgender, or #lgbt absolutely no results lol. Searching just #lgb works fine though. Awesome
still feel like there’s need to be federated with threads?
As someone who was happy my instance was initially federating with Threads, I am also happy they stopped federating after Meta’s moderation changes. Some people see this as an “I told you so moment” but I see it as the situation changed and we adapted. (I’m also not saying that instances who blocked threads from the start were wrong. Even if we agree on the facts of the case, we can come to different conclusions based on our values and priorities.)
facebook was a nazi bar since cambridge analityca, they just went mask off a bit
Deleted my fb account today. Instagram too. Hadn’t really used it other than to talk to my parents. My mom quit too, so I told my dad we can chat over sms and use other video platforms. Been a Facebook user since 2010, a little sad that the site has degraded so much
It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It’s not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.
I wonder if trump is now paying people to comb back through previous posts to look for things he can delete or edit to rewrite history. Now that I’ve said I feel fairly sure he’s doing exactly that because he does anything dishonest that he can which is tolerated
Yeah, except he’ll never pay them.
I don’t think so. My understanding is NARA actually owns those accounts. He’ll disable NARA and then go back and change posts made during Obama and Biden’s presidencies.
Nara?
National Archives and Records Administration
Oh there will most definitely be a Ministry of Truth.
Great context
Important context, yes.
But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.
So its not as clean here as it seems.
Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add “archive”
Probably because Melania doesn’t want to use it.
She was just gonna copy paste Dr. Biden’s posts anyway.
Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don’t autosub people to the new different account.
That just sounds like a dumb way to do it.
Itsan outdated practice but its not stupid in a traditional democracy. Who the elected official is should not make a difference in wether or not people are interested to know what government communicates.
Changing it would be like if in the old days your dedicated radio station changing frequencies because they got a new boss. Plenty (old people) would just be confused on why there is no news.
That’s the way they do it, these accounts belong to the current potus and vp
It’s almost like the president doesn’t actually matter and the state will violently serve capital regardless.
Unless they just rolled back the change, #democrat hashtag is definitely working on Instagram:
Rolled back. Update in the article.
I wouldn’t put it past them to hastily roll back the change, say “Sorry, we just had a glitch”, and blame Trans people somehow.
They won’t blame anyone. They’ll passive-voice it and do it more subtly.
