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Post by ppod »

fleddr wrote: post #103
boplicity wrote: post #22

During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.

It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.

>Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people.

This is the most underrated aspect. With the caveat that you can't choose your family and schoolfriends, you get the facebook you deserve. And you know, maybe you should try a bit harder to understand your family and schoolfriends?

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Post by neoromantique »

antocv wrote: post #37
cybernautique wrote: post #14

Very disappointing. Hopefully some enterprising ransomware gang can do the world a service and encrypt all of FB's data for them, possibly upgrade all of their servers and backups to being /dev/null hosts entirely. A man can dream.

The way to destroy Facebook and the likes of it, is not by encrypting all of its data or even parts of it or sending it to /dev/null. The best attack would be in fact to display war footage from Syria, the Collateral Damage video and such gore to random people at random times, instead of ads perhaps. And to the other side who wouldnt mind the violence and gore, show them pornhub clips.

So, terrorize people?

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Post by anonymfus »

coolca wrote: post #2

What is Facebook ?

A website to be in touch with your friends by keeping a list of them and sharing pictures, texts and events, which is famous for its developers discovering that the worse it does its core functions, the more money it brings, where people are forced to spend more time to do simple things because UI is intentionally bad and AI mixes in the content it founds the most distracting into your feed together with ads.

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Post by newfonewhodis »

runawaybottle wrote: post #24
newfonewhodis wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> shitty third world countries let's tease out your imperialistic racism more. which countries are you talking about?

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2021/3/3/mapping-internet...

so 29 countries are "shitty" according to you?

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Post by sulam »

Macha wrote: post #94
Justin_K wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same.... was it a global DNS issue or was HN overloaded from everybody looking for updates?

Surely the moment facebook comes back up would be higher traffic as people rush to comment on it (see this thread's rapid rise). Best guess: there's a DNS dependency in HN's critical path somewhere and the DNS server they used was being hammered with the facebook dns lookup retries.

Nah, unauthenticated HN was working very fast. It was simply the amount of traffic HN got while FB was down.

Here's a crazy idea: maybe a lot of HN people also spend time on FB during the day. When FB was down, they had more time to spend on HN!

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Post by wly_cdgr »

jimsimmons wrote: post #98
wly_cdgr wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…

Proof by anecdote

It's just my experience, but I am not very special or unusual, so it would be surprising if many people haven't had similar experiences

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Post by 300bps »

fleddr wrote: post #103
boplicity wrote: post #22

During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.

It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.

I'm from the U.S. and your experience matches mine. I just have like 1 niece, 1 cousin and a friend or two that I had to unfollow. I'm still friends with them, I just don't see any of the political stuff they post.

I know some people have like 500+ friends or even the max of 5,000. I keep my friend list to the 250 people I know in real life that I want to keep in touch with. Probably still melting my brain but I'm convinced it's nice to keep up with people's lives.

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Post by bryan_w »

Permit wrote: post #123
fleddr wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's interesting how Facebook experiences differ. To me it's a peaceful place showing mundane updates from friends and family, with zero politics. Plus, a bunch of niche hobby groups I subscribed, full of very kind and constructive people. The actual war zone to me is Twitter, not Facebook. I should add that I'm not from the US.

I suspect the original poster was not complaining about these topics showing up on their timeline; they don't want them showing up on anyone's timeline.

It can't show up on their timeline, mainly because they "Never had a Facebook" or "deleted their Facebook a day/month/year ago and it instantly made them better/happier/sexier"

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Post by lysozyme »

wly_cdgr wrote: post #92
boplicity wrote: post #22

During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.

Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…

Facebook may bring “a lot of good to the world”, but it brings a lot of bad, too. Is it worth the tradeoff?
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