Lovely to see how crazy long that list was!

Quite simply: “Feda is always betta without meta”

Wow. This is comedically implausible levels of cyberpunk dystopia villainy. I can’t believe it’s real and yet am forced to accept that it’s just how things work around here…

And so you have to wonder: who in his right mind would buy a VPN service from effing Facebook of all companies?

I constantly wondered the same thing about sensor-laden VR HMDs, but here we are.

At this point I wonder how many people wouldn’t bat an eye if their Facebook account was their national ID.

I want Lemmy to grow too but not at any cost. I’d rather have quality than quantity quite frankly.

Same.

I used TOR to log in to my FB account after years, just to see how my normie friends and family might be doing. They barely posted anything. It was just reposted ads.

My experience was also:

• Numerous unblockable “suggested for you” pages were all thot-videos that would get me fired if I worked in an office.

• FB marketplace, rife with scams.

• The company has been caught doing everything from enabling genocides to collecting data on children to making “shadow profiles” for people without accounts, to influencing elections.

• A single clicked link can hijack your account, evidenced by how many relatives send me private messages about a “friend that just got them a bunch of money.”

Yeah I’m more than happy having Lemmy have a basic intelligence barrier to entry, and making sure Meta suffocates if they try to zombify our platform with their accessibility + indoctrination strategy, like they have with entire countries.

Having a massive illiterate army that will do whatever you influence them to is nothing to sneeze at. (See: TikTok mobilizing their user base in the name of “free speech”)

If any living breathing person wants to come hang out with us on Lemmy / Mastodon / Pixelfed / etc… using any instance? I’m happy to walk them through it. There’s no “gatekeeping” any more than being required to read is gatekeeping the rest of society.

It’s been said the Fediverse feels like “the old internet”…exactly, when it was about expression, and anonymous handles, and not corporate and nation-state interests trying to mind control and profit off of alarmingly detailed profiles of the entire human population. Keep the board rooms out of our bedrooms.