AUTO FOLLOWING? HOLY SHIT.
Honestly I’m sure they will come up with some bullshit excuse for the others. But the auto-follow? Damn.
Is it auto following or did the Biden and Harris accounts many were already following get transformed into Trump/Vance accounts?
The POTUS accounts.
But users also reported it automatically re-following after un-following, and having to resort to a block.
Reminds me of Tom on MySpace
It is almost like meta is a terrible company.
Gosh, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call a privacy nightmare terrible… /s
Zuck can eat a bag of dicks. Cancel your account. Stop enabling this rich loser.
Tiktok is doing similar shit like banning words/phrases.
I just want to say that I’m oft amused by the single downvote on common-sense comments such as these. There must be about twelve repub-leaning asshats who go around expressing their dissent and it’s just pathetic. Or, and this would be even more pathetic, one has singled out my account and watches where I post and comment and then single-handedly goes through voting “no, no, no.” I cheerfully wave to you, asshat.
At least three are fewer on Lemmy but yes, those types are absolutely out there. Have an upvote 😏
Lol not even a fuckin full day.
Do your service and convince your parents to leave every Meta product.
My mom wouldn’t leave Facebook if you paid her. She treats it like it’s the entirety of the Internet
I thought Facebook was dying a few years back and I only became more convinced when an older family member was trying to convince me that it wasn’t.
A social media app that targets old people can’t last.
Block it at their router and blacklist it on her phone
Lol I don’t live at home but if I did that it would just make my brother’s life hell as he had to try and troubleshoot
Better yet, have it redirect to a fake Facebook that pisses them off so much they change platforms
I don’t think that would work in the iOS app even if I wanted it to
Thankfully, mine are too old to ever give a shit about anything on the internet. Sadly, my mother watches fox 24/7… my father doesn’t care for any of it at least and also pokes fun at her for watching that garbage. He still thinks Trump is good because, in his views, he made his stock the highest it ever was, and that’s all that matters. I’m only grateful we never talk about any of it when they see my kids or on holidays.
What’s the equivalent easy(ish) to use / post replacement for them?
For kids there is TinyBeans. That’s half the reason my older family uses FB anyway… and no way in hell am I putting my kid on FB.
Friendica for Facebook
Pixelfed for Instagram
Loops for Tiktok maybe, Haven’t tried either though
Choice of XMPP/Signal/Element for whatsapp
Your average person, let alone tech illiterate boomers, is never going to hop on to federated services.
Just need to frame it right. Facebook is full of <insert country they don’t like> propaganda, frendica is much harder to not.
Pixelfed is also good enough that Zuck is actively blocking it, so we’ve got one.
As-is, no, but an app with a slick dumbed down interface that all we nerds already here despise and equally slick on-boarding flow that hides all the “technical” details could
Except all the people switching to Bluesky?
The issue isn’t federation, it’s the onboarding and “style” of social media.
Also I don’t think there is a Facebook equivalent is there? If people weren’t on Reddit they aren’t gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.
My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I’ve been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.
Bluesky is still a good win for us! Not perfect for many, but still a damn good step in the right direction 😁
yeah, lemme just sit on friendica all by myself because im the only person in my life that knows what any of this is, no one is moving to these that has a large presence on the meta versions
Okay, but if you’re Friendica user you can natively interact with ActivityPub services like Lemmy or Mastodon, and there are addons enabled on some instances adding BlueSky and Tumblr as well, so if you know anyone using them, you’ll be able to interact with them
Also if you’re interested in following people you don’t know, there’s Friendica directory, so you’ll not be alone
This is the first I’ve heard of it and I’ve been here since the Reddit exodus
Can you see how Zuckerberg’s face is turning orange?
Are you suggesting that zuckgöring wasn’t always cheeto orange? News to me.
Looks like Zuckerberg got into Trump’s face paint
Maybe they had a sleepover!
Yeah, Vance slept
withon the couch.
they’re both accidentally gonna come out in blackface one day and some real hijinks will ensue!
RFK jr is super close
gunnin’ for that smoked out catcher’s mitt look
It’s actually from motorboating trumps ass…
Jesus fuck this is a mental image I didn’t need.
Ahh, that explains why Trump’s face looks like that too.
If you search #trans, or #transgender, or #lgbt absolutely no results lol. Searching just #lgb works fine though. Awesome
Searching just #lgb works fine though
Let’s Go Bisexuals!
Meta is not under fire. Meta is doing exactly what they want. We are so fucked. It’s over. We might as well kill ourselves.
ShittyLifeProTip: If you’re feeling suicidal, make sure to take some fascists with you.
Do not kill yourself. That will be a waste of life. Take out as many wealthy people as you can first before they stop you…
If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary
White terrors are evidence fascists fear left wing survival even when they’ve won.
I was trying to practice Cunningham’s Law and you, my friend, are the one to prove it. This is what I needed to hear.
Wait, I thought they were going to end censorship.
META wouldn’t go and just lie like that, would they?
Ditch the apps.
You are not married to apps.
Anyone on Lemmy should understand that. We came here from elsewhere.
DITCH THE APPS.
Me thinks you’re preaching to the choir 😅
I never even had “the apps” 😄
Is this like “the gays” my parents used to tell me about? 🤣
Exactly. But digital.
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Unless they just rolled back the change, #democrat hashtag is definitely working on Instagram:
Rolled back. Update in the article.
I wouldn’t put it past them to hastily roll back the change, say “Sorry, we just had a glitch”, and blame Trans people somehow.
They won’t blame anyone. They’ll passive-voice it and do it more subtly.
Holy Shit. It’s real and it’s nuts.
I only use the website instead of the app but searching for #Democrat results in démoratie and démocratieparticipative while searching for #Republican results in republican, republican party, republicanmemes, republicanwomen, republicans.
It’s shocking to experience this sort of censorship in real time.
I wish I had more influence to get people to more to a federated platform. Me quitting IG isn’t going to do anything other than cut myself off from information I occasionally want to access (local business events).
Do it, quit. Even if no one else does it. Stop relying on these tools.
Stop justifying using their services. Businesses should have multiple avenues to get the information you need. If they’re solely dependent on Meta, they won’t change unless people leave.
I completely understand the theory and moral argument; but in practice, how does this take effect?
If I delete my account, I’m not longer able to see events and sales, etc at local businesses.
My favorite local grocery store has 32,000 Instagram followers. How many of them have to leave to convince that business owner to start using a federated platform? A local bar I go to maybe six times a year doesn’t even have a website - only an IG account with 5k followers. It’s only because of their IG account that I know they have a chili cookout coming up that I want to enter.
So logistically, how do we, those who want to jump ship, make these businesses jump with us?
The best I’ve got is some avatar change to bring awareness but I don’t post enough that anyone would see it anyway. Or maybe actually post something on IG and leave it pinned there. I don’t have any posts on my account so maybe leaving an inspiring post would help. This would require not deleting my account.
Moreover, for small businesses, I know a lot of them are spending a few hundred or thousand dollars here and there to promote events and sales. This is one of the weaknesses of the fediverse. I don’t think it’s unfair that a business or person has the ability to spend money to ensure their announcement is noticed. Another fed weakness / powerful feature of corporate-social media is the lack of tools for businesses to conduct business. It’s just a lot easier to use these platforms that have ten years of updates to make things work best for the most people.
You can just leave. You don’t need to be concerned with businesses. They naturally chase money and will come up with alternative means of communicating if the tools they have now aren’t working as effectively as they need. They probably have a mailing list, or community bulletin board at the physical store that’s been woefully neglected by the social media users. And if they don’t, you can actively recommend it to your favorite businesses and the good ones will do it, or take the idea and make it better.
You don’t need to tell anyone you left. You don’t need to make a special profile pic and leave that up so everyone knows you left. Just leave. Stop caring about social media. I’ve been off of Facebook and Twitter for damn near two decades now, because even back then I saw how horrible it was for my focus, and mental health I still manage to keep up on events I care about, and in touch with the people that matter to me. It’s 100% possible but you gotta be the one to disengage. Even if no one else leaves, like I had in my case, the people who care will still reach out to you in the ways they can.
Granted I make throwaway accounts on federated social networks, but this scratches that itch for current info in the things I’m interested in.
There are at least 5 places around me that have only FB account for news lol. No physical bulletin, no mails. And it’s kinda normal for small, local buisnesses like bars, milk bars, fast-food, activity parks etc.
You haven’t addressed the issue I’ve raised.
I am and will continue to be concerned with businesses because I’m a human being who needs to eat and has a life outside my home.
I am telling you that most businesses only use Instagram in place of any other means of notifications.
It’s currently not possible to keep up with events without having an Instagram account. I already miss out on most events because the instagram algorithm usually shows me posts that are days past the event and I’m not on there for more than an hour in a whole month.Your solution, to abstain from life, is not feasible. Maybe it is for you but for most people it’s not.
You are also missing the point of the matter where these businesses are going to continue to use a platform that is now explicitly censoring information and seemingly pushing fascist agendas. If you were a business and wanted to maintain a relationship with your customers, what option do you have? As I’ve said, the tools to use social media to run a business have been refined for years. There’s nothing close to comparable either in the fediverse, with websites, newsletters, rss feeds, calendars, etc.
I’m not abstaining from life for refusing to have an Instagram account, you dunce. And I’m done talking to you about it.
Everyone who is semi intelligent knew this was going to happen. People need to quit acting like theybare surprised. It’s going to get worse, and the only people protected are rich white people who suck up to evil. Even then you’re not safe. Bumpler was good friends with Epstein until Epstein bought a piece of property that krumpler wanted. That’s why they stopped being friends. It wasn’t the sex trafficking that turned him away.
Right-Wingers were never anti-censorship look at how they handle books in school.
Ugh. And they can do whatever they want. The vast majority of people, even if they care a little, won’t jump ship.
Social media is looking more like a religion these days.
