John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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John Oliver for president
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Not a very large userbase.
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you can’t follow people
He said "Lemmy" but probably meant "Threadiverse", and mbin does support both the Twitter-style following user model and the Reddit-style forum model.
To use fedia.io as an example:
I dunno about piefed, haven't used it.
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Idk, to me the comments on lemmy are generally less toxic and I feel like I see way more nuanced discussion than on reddit.
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What do people use Facebook for these days? (I deleted my account about 10 years ago so I'm not sure what it's for now)
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That's what Friendica is for
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I'm actually not sure what it is fb offers that people stay on it for. I find that you don't need it to connect with actual friends. Even just making a Slack for close friends is a far better experience. It's not great for finding news, it's terrible for trying to have any sort of discussion. I genuinely don't understand what purpose it serves.
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This is the first time zuck has gone full ass-kisser with curly hair and a gold chain, though
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I've been gone from FB for about 3 months but for me it was the groups. You could find groups for anything, but personally, I miss my local groups. Particularly the No-Buy and vegan and political activist groups. Finding an equivalent outside of FB is sub par, if it even exists at all.
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They've gone full mask off, which is why there'sthe sudden backlash. The hate speech rules now include a section that explicitly says that it's okay to call LGBTQ people mentally ill. They're the only group with a specific carve-out in the rules saying that it's okay to post hate speech about them.
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So much of Facebook is just automated accounts responding to automated accounts in order to milk gullible advertisers. If everyone logged off tomorrow, I don't know if Zuckerberg would notice.
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He can't because he wasn't born here, but we could totally elect his wife and let him do the whole first husband thing while still advising if she needs it.
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Because Lemmy is nowhere near as ready for primetime as other platforms.
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I think we're too weird and niche.
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Let's hear your different perspectives
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i have certainly notices a SHARP downturn of new content being added to insta and facebook by people i actually know over the last few years.
All that seems to be left is AI Slop and ragebait. a venn diagram that overlaps considerably
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John Oliver's show is doing amazing things, including the Drumpfinator addon.
What is that URL, though?
I'm guessing I'm know it if I (happily) watch the episode? -
my country they literally helped elect one
Huh? Source? What country?
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I’ve also been intrigued, but it seems like a harder jump to make than mastodon or lemmy. Like with twitter or Reddit I’m mostly interacting with strangers anyway, but I don’t really want my instagram to be photos of people I don’t know.
Would you try to get your friends to make the switch with you?
