Comment on Instagram Caught Hiding Posts That Say "Immigrants Make the Country Great"
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 day agoShe’s not very progressive if she uses Facebook.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 23 hours ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Progressives don’t go to Nazi bars.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Not even remotely the same. Being on Facebook actively funds fascism there is no other way to look at it.
HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 17 hours ago
So does purchasing groceries at Walmart, but many Americans have no choice in that matter.
I do appreciate that you had a more empathetic comment for the guy whose girlfriend is still on Facebook. Thank you for having the civility to not call her a fascist sympathizer to his face. But don't worry, your true feelings are safe with me.
This is not how you make allies btw.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
We are way beyond finding allies. Call it what it is.
Does Walmart actively distort your news, your information, your opinions? Does it select what you see for an agenda?
I have a distaste for people shopping at wallmart, but this is beyond that.
Remeber, there is nothing Facebook provides that anyone needs. It is a choice.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I have asked her to get off of Facebook for awhile, but she is reluctant because her whole family uses it as their primary form of communication.
I ditched Facebook finally during COVID. I had already known it was a garbage platform, but I was feeling similarly because a lot of people I knew used it. The same thing happened to my feed though and I started getting a ton of anti-vax content.
What was worse is because I am pro-health and medical technology I advocated for people to be safe. I started getting death threats by friends of friends. I was flabbergasted and decided to delete my account then and there. If Facebook could turn people anti-vax and pro-murder I had to leave.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Yeah the people become awful on it. But then there is also the data collect, the active political manipulation by the platform itself. Not to mention directly funding Zuckerberg and his plans.
I never was on Facebook, I saw it as a bad idea when it came out. But I understand how many people including friends or family use it. I am pretty blunt: they support Trump, they support billionaires, they support fascism. There is no mincing of words on this, particularly now. Fortunately people are beginning to see that they are getting less of what they asked for (friends and family updates) and that seems to be annoying them enough to at least consider other options. Its harder for them to understand how much of their information had been slanted or even hidden from them.