Comment on Meta appoints anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hotmail, Gmail, and Yahoo Mail are all run by dirt bags.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Those aren’t the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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.

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