All power to anyone who looked at everything Facebook has wrought over the past 15 years and thought “Yep, I’ll have another slice of that pie”, but that person ain’t me.
Everything meta does is so weird and coercive. It leaves such a bad taste for me. This feels an extension of the “don’t delete your account! Here are all the pictures of people who will MISS YOU!” nonsense facebook used to do, or the now-normalized waiting periods and hidden settings for being able to delete accounts. They’re always finding little ways to overstep and encroach, because they just can’t accept that people might not want to use their service in exactly they way the company would make the most money from. It makes it all feel so gross.
Has there been a discussion about Beehaw defederating from Threads and if so could someone direct me there please? I desperately do not want to interact with Meta products, even accidentally. I read what the mastodon guy wrote about how in his opinion they can’t track you if you’re on another instance but that doesn’t jive with with the information meta has put out. It makes me really uncomfortable. I’ve heard enough horror stories about them (up to and including facilitating literal genocide…or ethnic killing if you’re trying to put a “positive” spin on it) and I want my social media to be free of that company.
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Is that a threat or a promise?
All power to anyone who looked at everything Facebook has wrought over the past 15 years and thought “Yep, I’ll have another slice of that pie”, but that person ain’t me.
Does anyone know what the author’s point is here? Failing to see it
They’re saying that there is a 2 for 1 special! If you delete Threads, there is an automatic bonus of deleting Instagram with no extra steps!
That if you have an Instagram account it’s best not to link it to Threads, I’m guessing.
There are no standalone threads accounts, so you have to create a new instagram account.
Everything meta does is so weird and coercive. It leaves such a bad taste for me. This feels an extension of the “don’t delete your account! Here are all the pictures of people who will MISS YOU!” nonsense facebook used to do, or the now-normalized waiting periods and hidden settings for being able to delete accounts. They’re always finding little ways to overstep and encroach, because they just can’t accept that people might not want to use their service in exactly they way the company would make the most money from. It makes it all feel so gross.
Has there been a discussion about Beehaw defederating from Threads and if so could someone direct me there please? I desperately do not want to interact with Meta products, even accidentally. I read what the mastodon guy wrote about how in his opinion they can’t track you if you’re on another instance but that doesn’t jive with with the information meta has put out. It makes me really uncomfortable. I’ve heard enough horror stories about them (up to and including facilitating literal genocide…or ethnic killing if you’re trying to put a “positive” spin on it) and I want my social media to be free of that company.
https://beehaw.org/post/798826
here’s a post where alyaza talks about beehaw joining the anti-meta fedi pact
Thank you for the link. That makes me feel better.
Well done meta for creating a zombie social network double quick!
wow this fucking sucks
wow this fucking sucks
meme of the mustache guy enthusiastically pushing the button