John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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Oh, absolutely! That's maybe why the jokes feel so pure and not disrespectful.
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On Lemmy a comment gets a well thought out reply. On Reddit not even a vote.
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it's not an alternative to any meta platform
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He should have offered the motor coach to Trump instead
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You do know his wife is a Republican right? A proud Bush/Obama era Republican? They literally met at the GOP convention in 2008.
What is with liberals and playing fantasy games with politics? On the one hand liberals will say elections are important and have consequences and on the other they'll treat it like a game of putting in your celebrity faves without bothering to care about their actual views.
Who knows what Jon himself actually thinks given he married a proud Republican and the fact he's a TV comedian playing a character. For all you know deep down he could personally be a never-Trump Republican himself.
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All I was doing was correcting a misconception and giving the actual path to what they wanted.
Nowhere did I say it was good or bad or whether I supported it.
Please take your words out of my mouth and keep them in yours.
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What are the best mbins these days? I'm out of the loop.
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*Billions of accounts. Hard to tell how many are real people and how many are just slop throwing bots.
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Yeah but lots of german.
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I've been using pixey.org for a year or so. No complaints
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I just do gram.social. works good enough for me and my cannabis account.
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::: spoiler mildly NSFW?
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For the masses maybe, but Signal & Bluesky ain’t it for a Privacy forum
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How is Signal not privacy-friendly? It's the most private thing that can be called a "messenger app".
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My Instagram is full of fitness content (and good looking people tbh). Nothing comes even remotely close on pixelfed. No offence to federated social media, but we all ain't good looking
(or suck at using filters...)It's still a very long way off from taking over Instagram.
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She isn’t a Republican based on the last 30 seconds..
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Meta has been quite naughty indeed
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I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.
(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)
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either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.
Lo and behold, after RiseUp now Signal is accused of selling data. Well, it is well known (and audited) that Signal keeps so little metadata it is not even useful to the authorities that have subpoeana-ed it.
This is an extra-ordinary claim you have to back with extra-ordinary evidence, in order to save face.
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Signal doesn't have private data to sell; that's the whole point.
