Comment on Facebook is absolutely cooked

artyom@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• partofthevoice@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  We need a dumb browser.

  This browser doesn’t work for most shit, making it the best browser available for most shit you actually need to do.

  That’s a browser I can get behind.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There is NetSurf, Dillo, Links and W3M.

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    • i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      +1 for NetSurf, I wrote the Amiga GUI for that.

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    • vext01@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ah, dillo brings me back :)

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      • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I, uh, misread that word.

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    • Mwa@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      +1 for NetSurf,links and Dillo
      and i never heard of W3M

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• ThunderWhiskers@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Literally the only reason my family interacts with Facebook. It’s infuriating.

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• BitsAndBites@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can’t stand how many companies and organizations only have a presence on Facebook. When I reach out to them to ask if there is another way to stay connected I usually get a big NOPE.

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  • kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is the asking that matters. If you sound really unhappy it makes maybe a little tiny bit of pressure, but many little bits make a lot

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• NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  My kid refused. The school district was notified that they needed to do something else, or we would sue. They changed.

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• Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I missed out on a lot of communication for my kids’ extracurriculars because they were only on Facebook and I don’t use it. It’s infuriating, but less infuriating than the other platforms that a couple of the groups used to attempt to communicate schedules and requirements.

  It’s ridiculous that this sort of thing isn’t a solved problem. Schools need to communicate with parents in an effective way, yet none of the platforms I’ve used work well. I’ve been in tech for decades and I still have trouble with their shitty UI.

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  • antonim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OTOH you may have missed the communication even if you were on Facebook. These days your feed is just 1/3 the groups you’re in and pages you’ve liked, 1/3 is the “recommended for you” random garbage, and 1/3 is ads.

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  • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is there a reason an emailing group isn’t a good solution?

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They tried that but as spam filters got more prevalent people would miss things.

      Then you have the threads where some replies to all and then everyone else replies to all telling them not to reply all.

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  • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Each state should have a website that each district can post updates to, and whatever else. It would cost next to nothing. There is no reason to use fb at all, let alone exclusively.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think it’s a great use for the fediverse. Government institutions have their own mastodon servers.

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      • hector@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah no kidding, we should actually start a group on here to get local governments to also post updates to the fediverse, we could even set them up with a program to do it automatically from their fb post or something. Have them post it to mastadon, but then maybe autopost from there to here? Not enough people on here but if it’s automatic it’s no effort on their part, and it would give us a lot of press, as the municipals would say on their sites they post to fb, mastadon, lemmy etc.

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• RunningInRVA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oops. I basically duplicated your reply. You are spot on the mark.

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• phx@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Second to worst for that is the excessive use of Google stuff, including Chromebooks replacing PC labs, and a bunch of G-software

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