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Yes, that's right. While he's busy pretending to feel bad about the situation with bad cops, he recruits and pays them to protect his family.
Facebook and Zuckerberg are well beyond complicit.
People want to leave but stay for the network. How can we leave and take the network with us?' Edit: I actually didn't have "friends" in mind. Small businesses, formal and informal groups of interest, event discovery, the use cases are far beyond what I'm aware of. Also, organizing and protests...
I've been toying with removing all of my content, unfriending the vast majority of acquaintances and unfollowing family who post garbage. Then don't feed the zuck machine by posting, liking memes, or regular checking. Disable all notifications from communities. Basically try to keep to "business and meaningful contact only" rather than engage with the time-sinks. Make it work for me. (The Intention firefox extension…
Zuckerberg hires police officers cited for using excessive force to work as his personal bodyguards. Yes, that's right. While he's busy pretending to feel bad about the situation with bad cops, he recruits and pays them to protect his family. Facebook and Zuckerberg are well beyond complicit.
If anything the virulent comments on this thread are enough reason for him to hire as many bodyguards as he may need.
Some people here have no sense of perspective.
Is there a significant amount of Facebook employees that are actually planning on leaving? From my experience money talks. Many people will use the logic of "if not me it will be someone else" for their cognitive dissonance to work at morally degenerate organizations. I'd be interested if there was a survey of current employees who would be willing to leave if another entity paid an analogous salary.
I am not on FB and I tried to get out of WhatsApp too. I deleted WhatsApp and implored all my friends to move to Signal. But out of the 100 or so people I reached, only 2 moved to Signal. My extended family is in India and WhatsApp is very entrenched there. The other issue is that people in India do not realize that the attention issue these apps create is a long term problem - at least not yet.
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I disagree. There were millions of people socializing on many different platforms for years before anything like Facebook was created.
Millions, yes. Billions, no.
Please Please Please offer some GOOD alternatives to Facebook. Now is the time to come together and replace Facebook with a free decentralised alternative. If you want to switch away from other surveillance capitalist software like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or WhatsApp here's a list [0] [0] https://switching.software/
Decentralization is usually pitched as a solution to "censorship". In this case, the complaint seems to be the reverse, that there was insufficient intervention against misinformation. So I'm not sure how decentralization applies here.
An interesting example relevant to this case would be Mastodon: it's an alternative to Twitter where many instances federate together, and instances are allowed to do their own moderation. Many instances have much more protective rules than Twitter and have smaller communities that their moderators are better able to integrate with.
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I disagree. There were millions of people socializing on many different platforms for years before anything like Facebook was created.
And not all of them combined were as successful as Facebook was at its peak.