Looks like the evil, shitty little brother of Technology Connections
Malec
Evil doppelganger
Keep Alec’s name out ya homophobic mouth Meta!
anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist
That’s so nice of him to be opposed to LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorists!
Robby Starbuck
That sounds like a name from some shitty fiction. Bobby Bucks you kidding me
Or, ironically, a gay porn actor.
Buck Rogers?
Fuck Mountain
I deleted my Facebook account in 2009. I started an IG account in 2021 that was 100% for comic book stuff. Deleted that one last night.
Facebook has really taken the mask off, like X, and societies seem to care so little it might be time for them to get the Old Yeller treatment. I remember the old Deus Ex games, and some of the themes are so irrelevant nowadays simply because they have stopped being dystopian fiction.
LOL what mask? Have you been living under a rock?
This was 5 years ago, and plenty other regime plants like him in all social media companies.
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My struggle for years has been quitting WhatsApp…
I quit everything except whatsapp, it’s virtually impossible without actually impacting my life negatively. Been trying and some friends have started using Signal, but most people don’t.
I guess it’s all about choosing what each of us deems worse. “Do I want a saner life even if it means not having some convenience, or is this change going to mess with my life for little benefit?”.
7 years ago I told everyone I was leaving WhatsApp and moving to Signal on day X. Some installed signal and we started using that exclusive, some others didn’t, and we stopped chatting, just did phone calls.
Fast forward to today, most of the people in my life use Signal, some of them exclusively to use it with me, and the rest, I haven’t missed (they call every now and then though).
It is a scary move, 100%, but well worth it, in my opinion.
Yeah in my experience I’ve been able to use regular texts, discord or signal instead. People will accept at least one most of the time
I never started using it. It’s the cancer version of messaging.
I sometimes get weird looks from people when I tell them I refuse to use it.
Signal is the way to go.
I really wish I could delete my Facebook and Instagram, but my late brother’s account is on both and I really miss him. I try to do my part by not making content for the machine nor interact with the platform and only go on when I really miss my brother
Backup the account webpage, then delete the account. There exists software that freezes web pages as is, as downloadable archives.
the singlefile addon for firefox
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Starbuck’s mission to bring “sanity back to corporate America”
ugh, I can’t with them
This is the loudest he’s ever screamed “please sell me TikTok!”
We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation
“You’re a woman, that’s a mental illnessl” is apparently completely OK?
The US really is the #1 place for doublespeak huh?
Do they can he concentration camps recreation camps too?
“They’re just there thinking real hard”
They sort of do. “Alligator Alcatraz” comes to mind
Ya. I knew this was coming because they are actively protecting nazis on their service.
The Zuck is just another techno fascist
Dude looks like the love child of Charlie Kirk and his sister
He looks like he’s pushed himself so deep in the closet that he broke through the wall in the back…
Can’t be Charlie Kirk’s, face is too big. Gotta be some unfortunate look alike’s love child instead.
Oh god can you imagine the horror of being a Charlie Kirk look alike? Like, you can’t fucking help it, it’s genetics- you’re not an asshole racist facist or anything either, just cursed to walk the earth looking like a giant fucking asshole, doomed
As someone who due to dealing with chronic pain and having to pick my grooming battles often looks like the most neckbearded, “tips fedora” ass reddit mod MF that ever lived. I can imagine at least a little bit.
Like I’m not out here neglecting basic hygiene which is a step up from some of the people I’ve met. But shaving is definitely the first thing that gets dropped when my pain starts flaring up and then I start looking more and more like the kind of person that’s had a few too many “actually she’s a 3,000 year old vampire so it’s fine,” conversations.
he looks like a grown up baby to be honest, very little masculine features or went through puberty.(since they are so obsessed with pickup game, alpha males.)
I’m about to get real mean to people still on FB/insta. Wtf will it take for you people to say no to a shitty social media website?
A lack of pictures of my extended family.
Videos of my nieces figure skating are the primary reason I haven’t deleted my account
Pretty sure you can download that stuff if you want to save it. I could be wrong, though. I deleted FB, Insta, and all that jazz at the start of the dictator’s first term.
Try to get them to text them instead. Giant family text chains are a lot more fun (and chaotic) than generic social media.
Yeah, text of his niece figure skating is the same thing as a video. Solid advice!
You can put videos in a text thread. I’m on a 31-person thread that has been active for about 15 years. I promise there’s no shortage of videos.
Do your text messages allow for decent res video of any running time longer than a few seconds?
Mine don’t.
By “text” here, do you mean Apple chat, SMS, or some other platform?
Don’t be a pedantic asshole.
no that matters a lot. if it’s imessage only it makes sense but if it’s a combination of mms/rcs/imessage, someone is going to get images consisting of like four total pixels.
What the fuck I was asking a genuine question
email exists and isn’t run by the worst people on earth
Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail are all run by dirt bags.
Those aren’t the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.
I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect. Shy of handing your bank number to scammers, the “Don’t use your computer to do X, use it to do Y” consumerist internet activism never seems to impact anything. How Big Tech actually does business seems driven by FinTech investment far more than user engagement.
I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.
Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There’s the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)
If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”. More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one’s going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook’s going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren’t on there.
Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.
Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world
Yes. But I believe it is harmful because of the way it has been leveraged to crowd out the public sector and strangle competitive private alternatives. It has become one wing of a massive tech sector cartel.
If you accept that, it’s a small step to “They benefit from having more users on their platform”.
That doesn’t logically follow. No more than saying “Building more highways is bad for the environment, ergo the highway administrators benefit from having more cars on the road.” You’re looking at a problem of induced demand and concluding the problem is on the demand-side of the equation.
Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket.
It’s one node in a massive web. And it’s easy to say “Well, you have to do your part because <insert consumerist morality here>”. But mostly it’s just some random asshole on the internet telling me not to use my telephone because AT&T is run by a richer set of random assholes. There’s no material benefit to me and no collective coordinated action that I’m seriously participating in.
Just wait until you learn how many leftists are still on Xitter even after
202420202019201820172016 when it was Trumps main outlet to win the election.Don’t forget about TikTok.
tech bros really want people to hate ai huh
People need to realize AI is just a tool. A very powerful one. it will be used against your interest… But we just need to “download the car” faster than they try to make us “hate AI” with their bullshit.
All AI has ever done for me is waste my time
Well, it depends on what you do with it. Right?
Yes. And all of my experiences so far have been a waste of my time. I don’t want to look up information and then have to check the information for accuracy. I’m just gonna find the info myself.
Right. don’t use it as a search engine ✅
Others have used it for that and given me wrong information as a result
And a shit ton of our shared resources so that people can generate pictures of kittens that look like David Letterman or whatever
