John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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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?
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Seems like a win tbh. Meta stops influencing people and collecting their data, while dumbass corps waste money on ads nobody will see.
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I reckon Lemmy is actually pretty good. I wouldn't know if the mobile apps are good, because I don't use those - but for me the core functionality of Lemmy on my computer is smooth and functional. I don't see any obvious low-hanging-fruit.
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"People who disagree" saying "things you don't like" energy
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Yeah that does actually sound pretty decent.
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brazil. it was a cambridge analytica sort of deal, where the bad guys paid facebook to milimetrically target fascist propaganda, antivax sentiment, and a bunch of other bullshit on people.
they were happy to oblige and even interfered when we tried to regulate this away.
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Lemmy is good for the size. It took a while for Lemmy to adjust to its current scale, with major instances having uptime issues.
If we keep the servers up, there is still issues with spam and moderation. We don't have the tools that Reddit built and I expect further pushes towards defederation as the standard for users hasn't been developed.
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Lemmy lacks a bit of polish
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Yep after all that's how musk did it by using trump as the symbolic figurehead
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I ditched reddit for Lemmy during the whole API crackdown bs. I've only used Voyager, but it seems quite comparable to RIF, which is the only way I ever viewed reddit.
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First Gentleman John Oliver.
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I guess the hate for Reddit isn't as great as for Shitter and Fakebook. (yet)
