John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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good initiative but uh what's up with that domain name?
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I think is some in-joke having to do with Facebook moderation. Or his typical goofassery with domain names. Can't help you there.
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There was a whole saga of him buying expensive rat erotica artwork at one point, which is a sentence I never thought I'd write.
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Oh, he just had that lying around
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sentence I never thought I’d write
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Good, glad it's getting some main stream attention. If more people start taking advantage of these settings and alternatives it's going to hurt Meta's bottom line eventually
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They'll just bury the settings, or remove them. Who's going to stop them now?
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I guess that's what the alts are for
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His team over at Last Week Tonight pull lots of funny stunts like this and have made quite a few hilarious websites. I wouldn't be surprised if this one is featured on the next episode!
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i like that people are leaving zucc platforms but why is that happening suddenly? did he do something exceedingly fascist again? did i miss something?
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Why not just recommend adblockers? No ads, no revenue, no matter how much tracking.
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Remember "Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption"? You can't get stuff like this in stores!
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one can always delete their accounts
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It's an in joke referencing some stuff he did in a previous season. I don't think there's any specific connection to Facebook.
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He only now was able to catch up with all the news with Meta moderation from a month ago. He is only a couple weeks back on air.
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rat erotica
aah thank you! now I can make sense of those last jumbled letters, quite the unusual word combination for sure ^^
Newsweek - The True Story Behind 'Last Week Tonight's' Rat Erotica Painting (archive link)
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Nice! Just shared this (as a PDF without the domain name lol) with my family!
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it’s going to hurt Meta’s bottom
lineeventuallyJust hurting Meta's bottom is good enough for me
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Not easy for most users on app-based mobile/tablet devices.
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(Puts on tinfoil hat) His parent company, Discovery-Warner Bros, probably wouldn't like that? And John Oliver makes his living through ad revenue.
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AFAIK no, but it takes awhile for everything to sink in, and hosts like John Oliver only have so much air time.
