John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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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.
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The site doesn't suggest any alternatives though or am I not seeing that?
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Selling user profiling data is also worth money, even if you're not shown ads because of ad-blockers you bring value to the dataset by increasing it's size with useful demographic data.
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Not easy for mobile devices? Firefox-based browsers on mobile can have Ublock Origin
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The alternatives were suggested briefly in the segment, not the site. Oliver pointed to the site those people who can't ditch Meta right now.
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I don’t want to get my hopes up but is this Facebook’s MySpace moment?
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"Normal" people don't use Facebook through the browser. Heck, I know functional, working adults that don't really understand the concept of a browser/URLs and just do everything through apps, bar the bare minimum for work.
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My personal MySpace moment for Facebook was 10 years ago. Best choice ever made.
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Or, even worse, they think that the internet is Google and vice versa.
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He decided to kiss the ring. People don't like that.
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I don’t think so. There’s no good alternative to Facebook that is worth leaving it for. When MySpace died, there was a significantly better alternative (FB). Even if people quit using Facebook regularly, they’ll need to keep it.
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I’ve been wanting to try pixelfed but I haven’t figured out what to do: start my own for friends or join an existing one.
I heard there were some issues with a dev or something so I haven’t signed up for the original instance yet
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But the thing is out of the big companies, basically none of them are in the business of selling the data they have. They are much better off if they don't allow competitors to grow by keeping all the data to themselves.
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As if Meta actually deletes anything
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that's why the broligarchs are buddying up to the dictators. the bottom is falling out of the surveillance capitalism market for advertising because it was never as effective as the ad marketplace brokers said it was. so the broligarchs need to sell their spying on us service to someone else and they've elected for the police state
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Zuckerberg hung out with Trump at Mar a Lago and attended the inauguration, then got rid of Facebook and Instagram's fact checking, relaxed their rules on posting hate speech and discrimination, ended Meta's diversity initiatives, removed bathroom facilities at meta for transgender and nonbinary employees, made speeches in defence of Trump and expressed gratitude for finally being able to have "a productive partnership with the United States government", while removing communications channels for employees and threatening them with being fired if they talked to media about any of this. He has gone full MAGA.
