Users Abandon Facebook After Cambridge Analytica Findings

Post by bgilroy26 » Tue, Mar 27, 2018, 2:56 AM UTC

dibstern wrote: post #350

bgilroy26 wrote: post #269

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These h3h3 videos (The pro man-spreading one and the whiteface MTV one) are kind of silly. Would you really say that Buzzfeed's bias strains your credulity, or is it more likely that you simply disagree with them?

All of h3h3's videos are silly. That's his style of comedy. You can't see that a video shaped entirely by left-wing identity politics that blames all men for the crimes of a few, that ignores practical realities contributing to the issue, has a left-wing bias? Are you serious?

It will be difficult for us to become friends. What do we have in common in the first place?

Post by coatmatter » Thu, Mar 29, 2018, 4:59 PM UTC

qwerty456127 wrote: post #346

coatmatter wrote: post #332

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I tried Ghostery twice and didn't understand it - sites seemed to keep breaking so I go with an alternative method (uBlock Origin + DuckDuckGo extension, and Brave on mobile). Based on this experience, Ghostery is not something I would simply throw on "most people's" computer. I would not for a single moment think that most people (as you implied) understand social networks. I think we become a part of the problem if…

I've only mentioned Ghostery to show there are dozens other social networks known spying on you. Do you happen to know one that doesn't?

Ah fair enough; I think DuckDuckGo's extension does a similar thing with regards to trackers and appears to be easier to use (for me). As for a social network that doesn't spy like the current big ones? I'd go with IRC.

I know people have proposed alternatives like Mastodon or Diaspora*, but I don't think they're good alternatives either compared to gradually giving them up to learn old offline alternatives: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/jobs/quit-social-media...

As for Steemit, I think this "feature" is most absurd. I hope it never takes off:

https://steemit.com/faq.html#Can_I_delete_or_deactivate_my_a...

> "Can I delete or deactivate my account?"

> "Accounts can not be deactivated or deleted. The account along with all of its activity is permanently stored in the blockchain."

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