7mo ago

Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible

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There's still one protest possible.
LEAVE REDDIT!!! GET THE FUCK OFF OF IT! LET IT DIE. MAKE IT DIE!
Same with twitter.
- And all things Meta.
  
  Twitter and Reddit went so much to shit and lowered the bar so much that Meta actually became almost not bad in my eyes, almost.
  
  Gee are you implying that storing passwords in plaintext is a bad thing? /s
  
  That's security, not privacy.
  helenslunch - the slayer of untruths
  
  How much privacy do you have when someone has your account password?
  
  I'm still pissed off that I've never had a facebook. I never gave them any info about me. I gave them no reason to have a profile on me.
  Yet because OTHER people have facebook, they know my name, my address, my phone number. I don't know if they can identify me in pictures that other people post, but it wouldn't surprise me.
  That shouldn't be allowed. I did not consent.
  
  Correct. And the same is true for the mobile phones, carriers, and a slew of apps that all look at contacts. They know who you are and who your friends and family are.
  
  There's a guy in the world of pro wrestling named Jim Cornette that said a quote this reminds me of.
  Cornette is known for holding grudges, and being hateful. He keeps a shitlist of people he hates.
  Well in the 1980s he was working for a wrestling company, and hated one of his coworkers for a year. Then a new guy came in and was so much worse.
  Then one day he says to the first guy "You know, you used to be at the top of my shit list, but with all these new fuckheads coming in, you managed to move down a few spots simply by not doing anything!"
  
  They're doing a Bradbury, in a way, kind of like Tumblr and Steam. Everyone else is shooting themselves in the foot.
  
  I think Meta is doing a decent job with Instagram. I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it's a decent enough platform. And the only one still allowing for engagement with your actual friends rather than exclusively professional content creators.
  
  WTF are you on about? no one likes instagram shorts and the feed is a jumbled mess of bullshit and advertisements. I deleted mine a long time ago and don't regret it for a second.
  
  no one likes instagram shorts
  it's "reels" i think tiktok recommends better videos, but IG has closed the gap in recent years.
  
  I really don't understand how people use Instagram. I've tried, but it's about 45% ads, 10-15% posts by people I don't follow, it's not in chronological order (or any sense of order for that matter), and regardless of whether I was on there yesterday or 2 months ago, it'll show me about 40 posts before saying "You're all caught up from the past 3 days!" and then refuse to show me any more.
  I guess this is why I'm here on Lemmy and went crawling back to Tumblr, one of the last vestiges of the old internet. At this point, I'd rather watch a platform die than become marketable to advertisers and shareholders.
  
  Yes the random feed filled with ads unrelated post suggestions and limited to three days is the main issue. i use an Instagram mod but they didn't manage yet to replace the main feed with the friend only feed you can get by clicking on the Instagram button
  
  I mean except for collecting all possible data and psychological profiling of users to serve them targeted ads, it’s a decent enough platform.
  It's not. Instagram is popular the way it is because "It’s going to be a lot harder to pull off massive protests" there.
  
  Don't worry that'll change, they haven't owned it for that long yet.
  
  they haven't owned it for that long yet
  they acquired it in 2012.
  
  ...OK, well I guess we wait until the wrong person is in charge of that division. Also I'm old because that feels like yesterday....fuck.
  
  Meta is a little hard because they acquired a lot of existing social networks in their prime and have kept things subtle. Think about how long it took EA to finally strip Maxis of everything but The Sims. The only way you would know something is owned by Meta is from the splash screen.
  
  The problem is that FB is the "core forum" for tons of niche hobbies. Irts the only reason I still have a account. They successfully killed off the old php forums.