Social Media needs to die
Meta rolled back protections. Now hate is surging.
Submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 5 hours ago
Pro@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Said that on Social Media
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 19 minutes ago
The internet was made for FTPs. That’s it. If you aren’t transferring files, you are using the internet wrong.
boaratio@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
No shit.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Meta is the enemy of all of mankind
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Social Media in general is our most self-destructive invention yet
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Delete. It.
rumba@piefed.zip 1 day ago
My #$%^ HOA only socializes through FB groups. Been trying to drum up interest in a defederated Frendica or something, but can't get any traction :( I've unliked all the stuff and unfollowed everything else, but I can't GTFO of it any further without being unable to deal with my neighbors civilly
Gwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
”Oh yeah, uh, they blocked my account. No idea why, just something they do sometimes.”
Glent@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Abandon civility, throw tomahawk instead. Your reputation will precede you. Their fear of you will bring about civility. You got this.
Coyote_sly@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Your HOA?
Sounds like you add by subtraction twice by deleting Facebook.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
The ones who has hate in their hearts can now shows us all their true colors.
That’s a good thing in my eyes. Let them show us exactly who they are.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 4 hours ago
That nerdy guy who wants to be an MMF fighter sure is angry, you can tell by his business.
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 3 hours ago
Tbf, having a central authority dictate the truth to you ain’t so great.
Neither is having classes of people who you aren’t allowed to offend.
riskable@programming.dev 1 day ago
To me, this is like saying, “4chan has turned into a cesspool!” Yeah: It was like that from the start. YOU were the ones that assumed it was ever safe!
You’re posting stuff on the public Internet to a website for adults where literally anyone can sign up and comment FFS.
If you want good moderation you need community moderation from people in that community. Not some giant/evil megacorp!
There’s all sorts of tools and platforms that do this properly, easily, and for free. If you don’t like Meta’s websites move off of them already!
Plesiohedron@lemmy.cafe 3 hours ago
People in the community with special power and anonymity. No. That doesn’t work either.
dylanmorgan@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
This headline is garbage. You could put just about any Fortune 500 company’s name in there and the headline would still be accurate.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
the url too. meta was never safe, and was never intended to be safe. the only way to make it safe is to shut it down.
jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
why should anyone want it to be safe?
baduhai@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
I do wonder, are seeing more hate, more fear and less freedom because there is more hate, more fear and less freedom, or are we seeing these things because they are now no longer deleted, and there is the same amount of it?
Either way there is no fix for facebook and other facebook owned platforms. Get rid of this shit.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 hours ago
Honestly, probably both. The fact that stuff isn’t being deleted anymore and that they make carve-outs in the rules for hate against specific minorities would embolden people to post more hateful content.
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
How about… stop using META?
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I think most of us, here, have. It really is mostly old folks and idiots left now.
Someone mentioned here, their hoa uses fb as their digital square, and my park union does too. I just don’t get to get involved with the park union, Facebook unfortunately, has become ingrained in many community oriented organizations. I hate it. I refuse to go back there.
I don’t understand why people are ao eager to give their money and privacy to billionaires.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
The CEO is a genocidal zio. What the eff do people expect? USA is a hate group ffs.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 1 day ago
I'm not convinced that much of it is real. Many accounts have to be fake. Surely people can't be as stupid as they appear. I think it's AI's funded or designed to be so stupidly biased.
Zexks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This kind of thinking is how we end up with extremist politicians like trump. YES PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID. LARGE NUMBERS OF PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID. Stop trying to ignore reality.
BagOfHeavyStones@piefed.social 18 hours ago
A bit of both I think.
As a Facebook group administrator I get to see a fair bit of definite fake stuff. Any time someone posts anything with the word stolen for example, a number of fake accounts will attempt to post with names of people who 'can help get your things back'.
They recently got a bit more advanced and will either use 'I'm new here" type posts to try to trick the admin into letting them into the group. It's a public group, hence a juicy target.
That said, we have a fair share of legit nutters, rednecks, NIMBYs, homophobes etc as well - I just suspect some of the EV and renewable energy hatred on Facebook is manufactured.
joekar1990@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Unfortunately people are that dumb if not dumber, but also yes there are tons of chatbots that are sowing anger and division usually in favor of conservatives. Weird how Elon was talking about how many bots are on Twitter and has completely stopped talking about it.
SW42@lemmy.world 1 day ago
surprised pikachu face
PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 1 day ago
I look forward to the day when the people wake up and drag the oppressors into the streets.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
There’s no speech police in the real world, you don’t need it online either.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com 21 hours ago
That is the most simplistic, uneducated opinion on the subject that is possible to make. You should be ashamed.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 15 hours ago
If that’s the case, it should be easy enough for you to come up with an actual argument against it.
TomMasz@piefed.social 1 day ago
Working as intended then?
shiroininja@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is why I’ve switched back to the old internet. Chat like irc/matrix for social interaction. RSS for information. And webrings for browsing the personal garden websites that used to constitute the internet before social media took over. It’s been great.
The good internet magazine has been writing about this and is my inspiration
As well as the internet history podcast.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
The headline confuses me. Has Facebook ever done something else?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Historically ('10s era) they were very focused on being “family friendly” and censoring anything they considered violent, sexual, perverse, deliberately deceptive, or otherwise upsetting to your middle-aged middle-income housewife/grandma.
Post-COVID, Zuckerberg’s been increasingly blackpilled, with an eye towards shock-jock engagement bait over any kind of civil moderation, fact-checking of misinformation, or discouragement of fraud/scam posts. So a site plenty of users have historically complained about feeling cloistered and sterile in the Disney-fied sense is now a total madhouse of AI slop, bum-fights clips, drop-shipper spam, and bargain basement rumor-mongering.
We’ve gone from a space that’s Mormon-style conservative to Fight Club-coded conservative.