My name is Dog Latin and I'm a social media addict.
I've been using Facebook for many many years and I also have Instagram accounts for a couple of personal projects.
Facebook suits me, largely because in my part-time life as a club promoter, community moderator and DJ I can host Facebook discussion groups and create events to tell followers when there'll be shows and gigs.
It's also a good way to keep in touch with friends and family, of course, but that function is becoming increasingly difficult with the amount of spam and unwanted content.
Overall I like using Facebook - I like its functionality. And the 700-strong music community I host is one of the things I'm proud of.
But man, I'm just done with this fuckery. I don't want to contribute to the pockets of multi-millionaire bigots any more. I want off. But I still need a place to host my music community and chat with my friends.
Never really been a Twitter guy, so Bluesky isn't for me. Not interested in that way of communicating. I enjoy narrowcasting to just the people I like and the people I want to engage with.
People have suggested starting a Reddit, or possibly starting a Discord. The latter seems fiddly and a faff, and I can see it becoming just a very small amount of people joining. I have similar reservations about Reddit, I dunno.
What can I do? How can I maintain these communities and relationships without burning everything down? In many ways I wish we could go back to the pre-social media days of ILX-style messageboards etc.
― the wedding preset (dog latin), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:03 (four weeks ago) link
I'm not ready to leave FB yet, but my closest friends and I have moved our chat from WhatsApp to Signal.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:13 (four weeks ago) link
it's a toughy, huh? i was thinking something like signal or whatever, but it's a tough sell when most of the people I know are still on Whatsapp.
― the wedding preset (dog latin), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:16 (four weeks ago) link
I don’t use it. I only have it since I use it for clients of my businesses to get in touch.
It’s worthless as social media for me, everytime I open it there’s a plethora of ragebait, AI bullshit and gullible people with no criteria commenting.
Instagram is getting useless as well, there’s like two ads when scrolling instead of posts of people you actually follow.
I guess reddit is the social media I’m addicted to the most but I mostly lurk.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:21 (four weeks ago) link
I’d probably also suggest trying to move the community to a subreddit. If they’re loyal followers they’ll follow the link even if they don’t create a profile.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:25 (four weeks ago) link
Quite easy to start and manage a Discord server, nothing too technical about it. Getting people there and engaged is quite a bit trickier.
― Inside The Wasp Factory with Gregg Wallace (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:30 (four weeks ago) link
My Facebook account was killed a couple of years ago, and the page for CoS with thousands of followers who didn't see anything unless I paid Meta was lost too, but annoying but what can you do? I've made a discord but like I say it's hard to get people involved there until you reach a certain size. I hate the culture of Reddit but am considering starting a subreddit there anyway.with a good deal of careful muting of words and people, bluesky is proving a good place to talk about music, though the last week has tested this to breaking point.
― Inside The Wasp Factory with Gregg Wallace (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:34 (four weeks ago) link
That said Reddit is now public and has always had some investors who are also billionare bigots.
There doesn’t seem to be a winning position with social media nowadays, if they’re big enough to get the exposure you want, there is very likely an evil group of people behind it and groups of people pushing an agenda and an army of bots.
I guess the best position is to use them knowing you’re being played and not engaging too much outside of your comfort zone.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 January 2025 12:56 (four weeks ago) link
It’s only getting worse. I miss the internet from 10+ years ago before it started being so openly weaponized.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 23 January 2025 13:00 (four weeks ago) link
The problem for me is that I use Facebook to keep up on music genres like DC Go-go, southern soul, and more . On Facebook those genres have a number of fans, followers, and academic scholars that I can’t find elsewhere. Instagram is also useful for keeping up with New Orleans brass bands, punk, dancehall and amapiano and Latin music and jazz musicians and Dj’s
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 23 January 2025 15:07 (four weeks ago) link
i have a few things to add but bookmarking for now
― budo jeru, Thursday, 23 January 2025 16:41 (four weeks ago) link
One of you guys (I think?) recommended some Facebook extension that locks it down. No ads, things in chronological order, only who you follow, etc. I don't look at the site that often, but I won't have a real problem with it (on a micro level) until this extension is somehow nullified. I'm even less on Instagram, so don't really know what life is like there. I had a similar lock-down extension for Twitter, also recommended here iirc, but fuck Twitter.
I feel I keep cutting more and more from my digital consumption habits and sources across the board (though not this board). What websites, what social media, what streaming, and so on.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:13 (four weeks ago) link
The whole events/promotion thing is tough, I sort of can't believe there hasn't been a decent replacement for facebook (and I haven't been on facebook for years now, but even before I quit I felt like event invites weren't working as well, for many reasons).
Honestly I suggest starting/building up an email list, it's not perfect and I know some people never see an email, but it feels better than the alternatives. I do that and IG these days (because I feel like it's required), but also I'm not very successful at promoting shows & records these days and try to avoid situations where I'm the one primarily responsible for doing so.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:21 (four weeks ago) link
Instagram is basically my only 'social media' presence and I post pretty lightly... I know a bunch of people who are temporarily logging out in some kind of feeble protest but they''re not actually killing off their accounts, so I'm not sure how effective it'll be
If I were to kill my account, I think I might instinctively look for it on my phone for awhile but then I'd forget I ever had it (like facebook, which I haven't been on in like.. 15? years)
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 January 2025 17:51 (four weeks ago) link
I think if ur considering leaving these places u shd just do it. If u have a community built up that you care about or works for ur music life or whatever maybe hand it off to someone who can run it for u?
― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 23 January 2025 18:08 (four weeks ago) link
insta is pretty much the only way i can promote my band/shows, so i ... can't leave???? though i guess when i deleted twitter i was like "how will i promote my writing???" and it turned out that twitter was absolutely dogshit for promoting anything so not much changed
― ivy., Thursday, 23 January 2025 18:08 (four weeks ago) link
I deleted the fb app a while ago because it’s completely dead and full of garbage, I log on occasionally in browser to see my building’s neighbourhood group, & the page of the book club I’m in, & to post my advent calendar + repost the same three or four stupid jokes to an audience of 3 ppl. In theory I also log on to see if there are any worthwhile updates from friends but frankly there aren’t.So it’s p easy for me to quit, I’m gonna do the awful thing of announcing it first just on the off chance anyone I’m only connected with on there wants to keep in touch some other way, then I’m gonna have a quick scan to see if there’s anything (photos &c) I might wanna saveFor practical reasons it’s probably not gonna be on the cards to move every WhatsApp chat I’m in to signal but at least I’ll be off the platform that is explicitly for far right disinfo & calling being lgbtq+ a mental illness. & I still have an apple phone & use Amazon services, what are you gonna do
― Sir Kock Farmer (wins), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:09 (four weeks ago) link
btw, when I look at Facebook on any other place other than my locked down computer I see the fucked up hellscape that everyone else sees, stupid ads, obnoxious Reels bait, things out of order, often by several days or even weeks. It's like putting on the glasses in "They Live."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:18 (four weeks ago) link
When I log in I always see that dogshit webcomic with the aliens or Sarah’s scribbles and tbh for that alone I need to leave and my quality of life will vastly improve
― Sir Kock Farmer (wins), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:20 (four weeks ago) link
I deleted my Twitter account. I get the sense that it's important to completely remove your info and not just take the app off your stuff in order to take your data away from them for AI or whatever.
I'm not ready to let go of Facebook, Idk. My whole family is there. My feed has pics of people's kids and life updates from friends that I can't travel to see irl, including lots of ex-ilxors.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:25 (four weeks ago) link
My fb isn't a fucked up hellscape? It's sometimes annoying but it's not the end times. Idk what yall are seeing.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:26 (four weeks ago) link
My Facebook feed is mostly 'Old Minnesota' and 'I Remember Chicago' and similar pages I've never belonged to. When those started appearing last year, I assumed it was Meta's way of tamping down political posting (and nothing has changed with that algorithm in the past two weeks). And hey, the old photos are fun to see.
― braunschweiger winter (Eazy), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:29 (four weeks ago) link
Here's what I see if I look at it on my not locked down phone right now:
Post from 2 days agoReel of "Kurt giving zero f*cks"Post from 3 hours agoAd for A24Post from 2 hours agoPost from 2 days agoPromo ad for some concert in EvanstonPost from a day agoPost from 4 days agoAd for guitar shopReels of what may be a stand-up comedian
And so on. Maybe not a hellscape, but for sure pretty random shit in no particular order, stuff I follow, stuff I don't, ads, Reels ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:51 (four weeks ago) link
I always nuke/mark ‘not interested’ those topics and groups that I find déclassé, whatever social channel I’m on. It does improve my timeline. So does selecting the ‘friends’ timeline at least once a week. This is just good digital housekeeping, which is something we should all try to be attentive to.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:52 (four weeks ago) link
I am also ok with what I am seeing from fb. (Not okay with billionaires being shitty, important distinction.)
My friends and relatives, stuff adjacent to my interests. I see content about Prairie architecture and Modernist poetry and local history and charming little wooden boats.
I don't see anything conservative unless it is being shown as negative. The ads are mostly for things that I dig, like mandolins and art supplies and food. AI slop is avoidable and easy to scroll past.
I hear all the criticisms but I guess I am just touching a different part of the elephant.
― while my guitarlele gently weeps (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:54 (four weeks ago) link
I don't see anything conservative, but I sometimes see ads in the sidebar of youtube for Trump shot glasses with a bullet embedded in them. I reported it for being "too sexy."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:55 (four weeks ago) link
lol
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:55 (four weeks ago) link
My fb isn't a fucked up hellscape? It's sometimes annoying but it's not the end times.
same
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 January 2025 19:57 (four weeks ago) link
i probably spend about 10 minutes total on FB and insta combined. i just check them for messages mostly. if i post something it only takes a second or two. i only use a computer so i don't get ads on instagram and the sponsored pages on FB is mostly just for underwear and pizza. also, i STILL get things for Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval EVERY DAY on my FB despite the fact that i have never liked or read or looked at any Mazzy-related content on there ever. i will probably keep them both since they have become really easy for me to ignore.
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:00 (four weeks ago) link
(10 minutes a day i should have said...)
― scott seward, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:01 (four weeks ago) link
FB isn't a (political) hellscape for me, it's just shit. Friends started exiting circa 2014 and it snowballed, now the only reasons to look at it at all are a couple of useful groups but they're rarely worth bothering.
Instagram has been in the not bad category IMO, despite the attempted enshittification + showing me less and less from people I actually know it was still largely things I was interested in. I use it a lot to bookmark artists and bands as an alternative to keeping a tab open on my phone - follow them meaning to explore deeper but never actually get around to it. Instead I just get a nice drip of that content. Then yesterday it kept feeding me some kind of 'interact with AI avatars' chatbot shit and I think we're rapidly approaching critical mass on it becoming worthless.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:10 (four weeks ago) link
Youtube requires regular sanitization - click one standup comic or video game video, immediately delete from history or else that's all of the recommendations (or worse, straight to Roganverse anti-woke comics)
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:11 (four weeks ago) link
FBPurity makes my feed pretty benign, but since leaving my WFH cocoon and moving to the service industry I've acquired some conservative "friends" through work. I'm still trying to figure out how to grab them by the collar and shake them effectively. Today I posted a pic of something I made for work and added "PS, DJT is a f@scist and Elon is a n@zi" and the post got disappeared before it ever made it to my feed. Half expecting to get banned in the next day or so.
― I think we're all Bezos on this bus (WmC), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:16 (four weeks ago) link
IG has been getting noticeably worse, I hit a wall with that just in the last couple of weeks. I think capable users of media all post to their stories and not to the main feed. All the people I know under like, 40, use stories only.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:18 (four weeks ago) link
not sure why people are debating the quality of their feeds when the original post said "Overall I like using Facebook ... But man, I'm just done with this fuckery. I don't want to contribute to the pockets of multi-millionaire bigots any more."
i don't have any specific advice about replacements but as someone who quit FB (a long time ago) and twitter (a couple of years ago), i know it seems daunting to make the decision but within a couple of days of quitting them you will not miss them at all, i promise. i'm not being pious here, i'm still on instagram, which somehow feels more pernicious because it doesn't come across as evil as FB or twitter. but fully quitting (not just "i don't use my account anymore" but totally deleting your account) is a good thing to do.
― na (NA), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:30 (four weeks ago) link
ie the point is not to quit because your feed is worse but because you don't want to be involved in this shit at all
I’ve seen people mention Pixelfed as an IG alternative, it seems like a combo of original IG and contemporary Flickr but similar to Bluesky as the existing platforms get too bad to use I’d rather just stop than start new accounts.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:35 (four weeks ago) link
as the existing platforms get too bad to use I’d rather just stop than start new accounts.
yep I'm feeling this
― sleeve, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:45 (four weeks ago) link
My FB has a lot of bollocks on it, but the good stuff, the stuff I see from friends and Ilxors and others, is generally very good. Feels like it gets more and more clogged with rubbish every week though
― the wedding preset (dog latin), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:51 (four weeks ago) link
No, I get the point of the thread, NA, we're spit balling here.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:52 (four weeks ago) link
Never really got the hang of Instagram. I only use it for promotional reasons. I find it finnicky how you can't share other people's stuff unless it's a story, and everything else is these tiny thumbnail photos. Plus I get loads of ads and reels and other rubbish anyway. It's basically a less-user friendly version of Facebook to me
― the wedding preset (dog latin), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:53 (four weeks ago) link
what these guys are counting on and maybe they're right is the addiction to being connected to people you probably would have naturally lost touch with or remained out of touch with forever, plus the supposed necessity of being online so you can keep up with news and networking. am i only going to miss the umpteenth reel related to a topic i clicked on a couple times several years ago? apparently. they also are probably counting on people juking their feed to fit their needs only to slowly boil it back to uselessness over time, repeat, reboil.
― omar little, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:53 (four weeks ago) link
i have a pretty dormant vinyl record instagram which used to get a ton of likes on every post and it just declined over time. i probably needed to post photos of my wife holding the records instead or something.
― omar little, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:54 (four weeks ago) link
But yes, this isn't to complain about the stare of various sm platforms as NA says. It's how to responsibly maintain an online life without supporting these fuckos ruining the world
― the wedding preset (dog latin), Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:54 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.punchinguppress.com/post/disengage-from-the-internet
― omar little, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:55 (four weeks ago) link
IG has been getting noticeably worse
'So & So is now on Threads - don't you want to be on Threads? Don't you? Create a Thread account so you can follow So & So...'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 23 January 2025 20:59 (four weeks ago) link
Messaged a friend about this earlier today, after ILX's R.C. posted about leaving, a day after someone else I know hinted at the same. as the existing platforms get too bad to use I’d rather just stop than start new accounts--same, basically, I just don't have the interest in starting from scratch on Bluesky (which my friend said is different anyway, more like Twitter, which I never had any use for) or anywhere else. I'd be happy to go back to email as a form of communication (or Messenger), and confine all my brilliant insights and witticisms about art and baseball and life to ILX. But I am worried--or at least concerned--that I'd lose contact with some people. When I was living in Toronto instead of two hours away, this wasn't so much an issue.
― clemenza, Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:00 (four weeks ago) link
I have noticed progressively weirder reels being displayed in my FB feed in the past few months. It might have started when i disabled off-site tracking? I can't remember. Whatever it is, it's probably working because they are a lot harder to ignore now and it makes me feel like a chump for falling into the trap.
FB has become less and less useful over the past decade, as friends have slowly left the platform one by one and event invitations have become infrequent. Most of the time I just share YouTube links of music, which I know the FB algorithm doesn't like, but I don't really care about whether or not I show up in people's feeds.
I do like keeping up with the people who are still on there. I'm not really on any other social media besides Instagram which is basically the same thing. I'll probably stay on it for the time being though it is very tempting to request that all my personal data be scrubbed.
― c u (crüt), Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:01 (four weeks ago) link
Never really got the hang of Instagram. I only use it for promotional reasons
This is what I saw a lot of people say about Tik Tok, that it's great for promotion. But what did people do before Instagram and Tik Tok? That's a somewhat rhetorical question, because I'm old, and remember the before social media times, and ... I don't feel like much has changed. Except it's a lot easier to spend more money, faster? Which is guess means promotion is better?
But, for example, one of my kids loves to bake, and gets a lot of recipes from Tik Tok. That's for sure a form of promotion at work. But before that there were food blogs, and websites, and ... cookbooks. Which I read about in newspapers and magazines, and so on. The medium has changed and become less gate-kept, more accessible and cheaper (essentially free), but it's also become so coarse and dumb and racist and insane that it's really hard to balance the benefits with the drawbacks. Or at least, if you find a way to get rid of the drawbacks, then you might as well go back to the way things were before, because most of social media is drawbacks, imo, just stuff taking up time and space. Or as they call it, "content."
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:12 (four weeks ago) link
It might have started when i disabled off-site tracking?
No evidence of this but I'm convinced the non-stop push of the absolute worst video content in Internet history and including posts from groups and people I do not and have never followed was some kind of punishment from Facebook for opting out of tracking.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 23 January 2025 21:20 (four weeks ago) link
the key is to not despise your friends
― LocalGarda, Friday, 24 January 2025 17:17 (four weeks ago) link
Tends to be relatives who are basically huns/chuds in my case, but all the old ravers that’ve wormholed towards conspiracy psychosis are easily unfriended or snoozed; same goes for transphobes (more common than homophobes on my socials). Also, if you argue with anyone in those categories, the algorithm serves you right (wing).
Even when we are careful, they still serve us dumb shit. If you join groups (I’m in school/hometown/university groups, a big food group or two, some UK journalism and ‘scene’ groups, and a couple of whippet groups) you’ll also see the stupid affiliations chosen by members of said groups on your timeline. I hit not interested/irrelevant a few times each time I visit my profiles, and I think it does help in the long run.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Friday, 24 January 2025 17:33 (four weeks ago) link
thanks - i had no idea i had that option for my feed. still going to try to be on it less, but this will make things less awful for sure
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 24 January 2025 17:45 (four weeks ago) link
Earlier this week I posted about leaving FB/IG later this year and going to Bluesky, and was heartened by how many people were in the same mindset, not just ILX cohort types but people from college and other friend groups. Everyone’s just DONE.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 24 January 2025 17:56 (four weeks ago) link
well i'll tell ya before i left the house this morning there were all these sirens and police and fire and a helicopter and i was like what the heck and it was only from facebook that i learned later that someone or someones had died in a sand pit. never would have known that quick without the facebook. did i need to know? maybe not. but i was curious.
― scott seward, Friday, 24 January 2025 18:02 (four weeks ago) link
― sarahell, Friday, 24 January 2025 18:08 (four weeks ago) link
I am on bsky now and realized that the “import contacts” feature from fb was super useful for remembering people I want to keep up with
― sarahell, Friday, 24 January 2025 18:10 (four weeks ago) link
I’ll confess that I still like FB not for keeping in touch with IRL friends but for the random groups of strangers I’ve joined and love as either informational resources or pure diversions: crappy banjo players, nice photos of random spots in West Virginia, birding groups, country lanes of Great Britain, ultra running and gravel bike training groups etc. I don’t want to give these up! But I’d be much more productive.
― tobo73, Friday, 24 January 2025 19:02 (four weeks ago) link
OK, some thoughts on the dystopian Internet and how to manage one's interactions with it.
First: The idea of a universal public Internet open to everyone - I don't think that works. I don't think that has ever worked. I look back at how soc.motss was named that way because of anti-queer trolls, I look at what happened to alt.transgendered, i look at the way one of the first spammers was someone DARVO-ing the Armenian Genocide and the immense amount of time and effort it took to disconnect him from an open, decentralized network...
I also see Internet communication as a sort of floating crap game. This week it's Discord or Bsky or whatever, next week that's been taken over or shut down and it's something else. Twitter differs from Gab in that people had to _join_ Gab. They just have to _not leave_ Twitter. You see people talking about "bringing back Web 1.5" or something and God, we didn't ever leave it, did we? I left Facebook in 2017, cut out all public social media then (this message board contains my sole contributions to the public Internet since then), and I lost contact with most of my friend group when I did that. We'd been friends since the Usenet days, more than 20 years, and I've barely talked to any of them since. It is difficult to leave somewhere you've known... I mean God I was on Usenet until _2006_. I didn't even _post_ here until 2011, because I didn't want to get involved in those newfangled "message boards".
The thing I always liked about Usenet, what really was amazing about it, was that it brought together niche communities of weirdos. We're kind of a niche community of weirdos, if for no other reason than that we're using an Internet message board in 2025. If I have any use for the Internet in 2025, it's niche communities of weirdos.
So I guess that's the thing. If corporate social media has a use for you, what is that use? What is the cost of doing without? What are the benefits?
Because social media is designed to be addictive. The more one uses it, the more miserable one is, and the more one wants to use it. There is withdrawal. There is loss. I think knowing that is important. And I think finding other ways to get one's social needs met is important.
― Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 24 January 2025 19:33 (four weeks ago) link
ugh, nextdoor
for better or worse, my small city has an active subreddit and I peek in there once a week. it's fine, just the same people asking about things like that or making the same running jokes
― ɥɯ ︵ (°□°) (mh), Friday, 24 January 2025 19:34 (four weeks ago) link
clicking "not interested" or even blocking etc is getting too time consuming (on top of not working).
Do any sites have a functional “not interested” button? YouTube and Instagram definitely no, Apple Music/Spotify no. I can’t tell that thumbs up or down on a streaming service has ever done anything.
Maybe Apple News is really good on this? Or is it the most universal form of enshittification.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 January 2025 19:43 (four weeks ago) link
huh? YT definitely has not interested options next to the suggestions it serves. Or do you mean you think it doesn’t work?
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 24 January 2025 21:48 (four weeks ago) link
It doesn’t do anything. “Do not recommend channel” works for hiding the channel but it will even repopulate your recommendations with videos that you already hid as not interested.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 January 2025 22:12 (four weeks ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/20/23356434/youtube-dislike-not-interested-buttons-bad-recommendations-mozilla-report
― papal hotwife (milo z), Friday, 24 January 2025 22:13 (four weeks ago) link
the Facebook Reels one doesn't work at all. I kept clicking See Less but they never go away. I just hid the whole section with FB Purity eventually
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 24 January 2025 22:20 (four weeks ago) link
just had FB straight up delete a post of mine with no explanation, it was to this link:
― sleeve, Friday, 24 January 2025 22:35 (four weeks ago) link
I've also only seen two notifications, but there are over a dozen comments on the post itself
the fix is in, I mean it always was to a degree but just like everything else they are turning it up to 11
― sleeve, Friday, 24 January 2025 22:36 (four weeks ago) link
xp to CP aw yeah I love hiding Reels and IG links with FBP
that being said, this latest madness is prob enough for me to step away
― sleeve, Friday, 24 January 2025 22:37 (four weeks ago) link
i just shared this picture on Facebook. i believe in uplift culture.
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/474626537_122133814070494369_5668551629370239008_n.jpg?_nc_cat=111&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=epHran8CR4cQ7kNvgFKk27j&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&_nc_gid=ANvjtYGvAkA7VznWmufvDhj&oh=00_AYCQCAgcN40i0njE38PcxdPbSlPOVL1nDJhUqVSU9hGA7A&oe=679A0B4C
― scott seward, Friday, 24 January 2025 23:21 (four weeks ago) link
Hmmhttps://media.gettyimages.com/id/599352366/photo/drummer-don-henley-of-the-eagles.jpg?s=1024x1024&w=gi&k=20&c=IwQqSz2oWbljuYtcr71RKNwxQpoqTtGwH2j7p1wb7_8=
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 January 2025 23:25 (four weeks ago) link
Wall Street Banks Prepare to Sell Billions of Dollars of X LoansThe banks are hoping to sell the debt at around 90 to 95 cents on the dollar. Owner Elon Musk has told staff the platform is “barely breaking even.”
― scott seward, Friday, 24 January 2025 23:42 (four weeks ago) link
Sell... to whom?
― Instead of create and send out, it pull back and consume (unperson), Saturday, 25 January 2025 01:49 (four weeks ago) link
I've been reluctant to give up FB, for one it's still a good way to keep track of people I actually do care about, I honestly do enjoy for example seeing the updates from my cousin's bakery in Akron. I've always thought well, it's fine if you curate your feed, right? nah. their algorithm is showing me shit I don't wanna see constantly. not at all what it was like a few years ago. and the niche groups I'm in have been getting invaded by AI bots. like I'm in groups with names like "Krautrock Fantasy" where people just post pictures of their Cosmic Jokers LPs and it's now getting invaded by bots saying KLAUS SCHULZE HAS DIED! TANGERINE DREAM DEAD AT 67! THE ROCK WORLD IS MOURNING THE LOSS! Surely Krautrock Fantasy is a sacred space!!!
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 January 2025 05:54 (four weeks ago) link
only reason for mine existing is because my spouse posts pics of our kids there THAT SHE DOESN'T SHARE ON THE FAMILY ALBUM and it's beyond maddening.
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Saturday, 25 January 2025 06:51 (four weeks ago) link
Whew
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 20:41 (three weeks ago) link
I never really thought I’d delete my FB account, but it’s done.
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 20:49 (three weeks ago) link
Deleted mine in 2020. Didn't delete Instagram but removed the app from my phone and will log in via web to check my inbox a few times a year.
Yes, you will take a hit to your reach and connections. But it will encourage those who you truly value to keep in touch more directly and intimately.
I've been using Signal for nearly a decade now and that is much harder to get people to use, especially those on iPhones. Would love to see more people move from WhatsApp and iMessages to it, but those on Apple platforms aren't incentivized to do so at all and Signal lags behind WhatsApp in features. It really needs to decouple from having a phone # to use it. I can have an iMessages account without a phone number but not Signal? Oy.
― octobeard, Tuesday, 28 January 2025 20:53 (three weeks ago) link
My friends and I switched to Signal last week.
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 20:54 (three weeks ago) link
a friend was suspended from FB for posting something about people donating to nonprofits and contacting congress regarding all the recent bullshit.
― omar little, Tuesday, 28 January 2025 21:32 (three weeks ago) link
maybe Christopher Walken can teach us a thing or two:
“I don’t have technology. I only have a satellite dish on my house. So I’ve seen ‘Severance’ on DVDs that they’re good enough to send me,” Walken said. “I don’t have a cell phone. I’ve never emailed or, what do you call it, Twittered.”
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 28 January 2025 21:37 (three weeks ago) link
I thought Signal was an op and the kids are on Telegram? I have both, I think as long as Signal mgs are set to disappear it's relatively safe?
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Tuesday, 28 January 2025 21:54 (three weeks ago) link
Signal is open source E2E and you can actually build the app yourself with the source. No message data is stored unencrypted outside of the sender and recipient's screens when read. It's about as secure as a messenger can get. Never used Telegram but my understanding is it's a bit shadier (started in Russia, currently based in Dubai) and has non-encrypted chats set by default and profits off of user data as a for profit entity.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 29 January 2025 00:22 (three weeks ago) link
As long as you don't have a zero day exploit on your phone (which can see everything your eyes see, thus getting around any encryption), even if you don't delete messages, they're safely encrypted on your devices with modern encryption algorithms. Short of something like quantum computing or encryption breaking algorithms the public and academia aren't aware of, your data is safe. There's a reason most politicians worldwide, including those in the Trump admin, use it.
The org is also a non-profit, which takes donations for its revenue, similar to Wikipedia.
― octobeard, Wednesday, 29 January 2025 00:27 (three weeks ago) link
The consistent updating and device pairing stuff makes Signal kinda annoying, but I definitely prefer it to fb messaging. I’ve been using it for work stuff for about 7 years now. One of the developers is a friend of a friend.
― sarahell, Wednesday, 29 January 2025 01:28 (three weeks ago) link
I love Signal, the people i message with there are the ones i really trust
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 29 January 2025 01:32 (three weeks ago) link
https://networkcultures.org/geert/2025/01/30/join-global-switch-day-on-february-1st-2025/
today is Global Switch Day, which mostly seems to exist as a hashtag on mastodon, but the above summarises the alternatives.
― koogs, Saturday, 1 February 2025 14:00 (three weeks ago) link
Just saw elsewhere: two other places described as "sandwich pile and azure atmosphere."
I admit the first one took me a bit.
― the real slim pickens (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 2 February 2025 22:11 (two weeks ago) link
sandwich pile and azure atmosphere
i.e. the cologne in my cabinet
― the talented mr pimply (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 2 February 2025 22:14 (two weeks ago) link
i tried to sign up for pixelfed.art, didn't hear back. now when i try again it says the email address is in use.
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 3 February 2025 10:00 (two weeks ago) link
i found a 're-send confirmation email' link. i clicked it, got an email, clicked the link which opened a page, clicked the 'confirm email' link on the page, got redirected to a help screen.
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 3 February 2025 10:03 (two weeks ago) link
pixelfed and associated projects (there's a video version and a whatsap clone called 'sup) is all one guy
― koogs, Monday, 3 February 2025 12:36 (two weeks ago) link
yikes. six years old! written in php :(
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 3 February 2025 13:38 (two weeks ago) link
Is Pixelfed to Instagram what Bluesky is to Twitter?
Or do I have to pick a server and all of that mess.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 3 February 2025 14:05 (two weeks ago) link
yes you do - https://pixelfed.org/servers
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 3 February 2025 14:06 (two weeks ago) link
I'm not getting involved in anything that makes me pick a server because that's automatically going to limit the amount of people participating.
While looking into that, I read that Bluesky has an Instagram alternative called Flashes that is supposed to come out soon. If it doesn't totally suck, that will be when I ditch Facebook/Instagram.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 3 February 2025 15:22 (two weeks ago) link
Hard agree, unfortunately. I know it's sort of driven by an opposing impulse but it's strangely similar to one of the supposed benefits of capitalism, choice. Choice of laundry detergent! Choice of smartphone provider! Choice of healthcare insurance! I don't want choice, I just want something that works.
― birming man (ledge), Monday, 3 February 2025 15:30 (two weeks ago) link
I remember trying to post something to Instagram once and it was such a pain in the ass. I'm not great with computers and it was probably my fault that it was so difficult, but I seem to remember having to figure out how to resize a photo in a different app and that's when I gave up.
― Cow_Art, Monday, 3 February 2025 15:56 (two weeks ago) link
I took IG off my phone, and check once a week via the web app for messages. Other than that, I don’t look at it at all, and I am infinitely more happy and grounded.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Monday, 3 February 2025 17:46 (two weeks ago) link
pixelfed registration came through finally. I can't say I'm at all immune from IG clickbait but I do mostly use it for posting drawings/paintings and keeping in touch with like minded people, most of whom I know IRL, so I don't think pixelfed can replace that.
― birming man (ledge), Tuesday, 4 February 2025 09:02 (two weeks ago) link
ig is just broken on web browsers. shokingly bad.
― adam t (dat), Wednesday, 5 February 2025 01:17 (two weeks ago) link