• abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 days ago

    I believe in “free speech” but if you leave my platforms you’re virtue signalling.

    Or it could be your social media sites are full of death of the internet AI garbage and bullshit.

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    7 days ago

    It’s not virtue signalling if you truly mean it.

    Our feeds should be our own.

    I quit Crackbook a decade ago over the algorithm forcing shit at me I had no interest in.

    That’s when I learned what a dark pattern was. I started seeing it pop up nearly everywhere that used algorithms.

    Did the same with Twatter a few years ago. Again, I was over being forced to see shit I had zero interest in. This time I removed my footprint, leaving a handful of posts.

    No one noticed either time I’d left. (No one ever does. That’s a whole other rant about the state of anti social media.)

    Never used Threads. Won’t even click on the ones that are shoved at me through Insta.

    Kept Insta for patterns and recipes, and over time I’ve stopped engaging on the platform. It’s just as bad as the others for the algorithm and ads. Staying is on me, I know. Sunk cost fallacy or whatever. I didn’t want to lose my collection of patterns that exist no where else.

    I started the process of removing what little remains of my presence on IG. Discovered I’m not allowed to remove likes ‘to protect the community’. Deleting my own content bugs out often. Removing saved bookmarks bugs out often. No way to keep the videos I refer to often to make things.

    Damned straight I mean it when I say I will cease using Meta products. I am tired of being told how to use something, or how I should think and what I should believe.

    Zuck can fuck all the way off.

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        6 days ago

        I would certainly check one out. Federated instances are a good start, being able to curate my own feeds and interests (tags being hijacked is a PITA) but I hold concern of the eventual crap creep.

        I think I am in my Old Person Yells At Internet era.

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          I’m working on a decentralised (FOSS) sharing protocol and implementation. Some information here

          Like have your protected free web page and share it, or make a chat program on top of it (demo exists for both).

          I just ironed out some last showstoppers before Christmas, and I’ll soon try to get it out for testing, will post on !tenfingers@lemmy.mindoki.com for the curious!

  • ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip
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    7 days ago

    so he admits it’s virtuous… just that he thinks some people are doing it disingenuously…?

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      “Everyone is a psychopath like me therefore anything virtuous is disingenuous.”

      I kind of think a certain amount of money makes you… Inhuman for a lack of a better word. Not only not playing the same game as the rest of us, but so far removed that they don’t remember the rules.

      Like we’re all a part of something together, but when you get to a certain point of wealth (or more likely in order to get to a certain point of wealth) the rest of humanity are just things that give you wealth and not beings such as yourself.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Well then I’m virtue signalling, fuckface. I deleted all the Meta platforms I used, save for my fake white supremacist Facebook account because I use that to tell the employers of Nazis that a Nazi works for them. I am done with my personal accounts though.

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    6 days ago

    Man, Zuck the cuck Fuckerberg is really virtue signalling saying something like that damn

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    8 days ago

    isn’t virtue signaling doing something good but just for shows? so he is implying that quitting fb is a good thing to do