I feel like the suggestion to just delete your Meta account is unhelpful and even harmful in some situations. I know a lot of us in this field don't mind having a small social circle, but for us that struggle to even have that, or that the process of doing that, requires you to be as open and reachable as possible to make it easier to create or maintain friendships, this often requires having an account to use Messen…
I don't know how old you are but I'm 44 and in my experience, you really should prefer quality over quantity.
I like an AI that can answer questions with all information and context on a particular thread. It should not be visible to others in the thread / post.
You ask, it answers and that's it. It should not take over the feed.
I like the Grok Button at the side of Tweet, I dont like "@grok is this true"
You can block all their content, just delete your account.
I deleted all my meta accounts a couple years ago (Facebook, Instagram). When I did it I was afraid I would miss out. Nope: 5 years after I feel good about not being a dopamine-addicted sheep (At least to Meta). It makes me sick to my stomach whenever I go to a public place and see so many people mindlessly losing their life watching reels and stories full of ads. I Used to take the Caltrain and I estimate >50% of th…
I follow traditional media/journalists. Everything important on social media still reaches me- just 24 hours later.
Yup, on the internet these days it is fine to talk about the most vile and disgusting things you can imagine, to a point. And that point is if you say joke about apoptosis and an elected official or some billionaire in the same sentence, it is [ Removed by Reddit ]. It is amazing the era of censorship we find ourselves in today and no one seems to be complaining about it either.
Oh I see plenty of people complaining but only a few are willing to try another platform like nostr or mastodon or whatever else. “I don’t want a solution, I want to be mad”
Running isn't any long term solution. That is why people are mad. Censorship follows where the people are. If a critical mass of people goes to mastodon, that is where the advertising and censorship will go. Just like how it went to reddit after a critical mass went there.
Instagram makes it extremely frustrating without an account. Many times I have checked a small business's opening times on Google Maps only to arrive and find them closed... the only place they reliably post their times is on Instagram. I gave up and got Instagram.
Only way to go is to leave a 1 star review letting them know they need to publish things outside Instagram
That is insanely awful take. Why would anyone review something negatively without actually checking it out?
> Most venues and places are slowly going away from closed gardens. They are? Honestly, first time hearing about this. I've noticed only big events get posted outside of the IG/etc. Even in Tokyo, a simple thing like checking if a place is open on a public holiday is to check their Instagram.
It's funny because this should be a non-issue Consider the grammar Hey Alice, did you see the event for Chris's band? No It was on Facebook, publically posted (audience set to public) I'm not on Facebook Like... you post something public on FB/IG and people STILL CAN'T SEE IT because apparently 'public' means 'must make an account'. It's insanity
Well, the thing is, and people won’t like hearing it… almost everyone has a social media account outside of very small niche groups. Socially speaking, not having an account at all in any SNS (not saying an active poster, by the way!) would be negatively viewed. People don’t care about privacy, data and etc. as much as we would want them to.
Only way to go is to leave a 1 star review letting them know they need to publish things outside Instagram
That is insanely awful take. Why would anyone review something negatively without actually checking it out?
He did check it out, and it was closed, because they don't post their hours outside of a user-hostile social networking site people shouldn't use and they left their hours misrepresented elsewhere. Poor customer experiences result in poor reviews.
At least he did them the courtesy of telling them exactly what the problem was.
Oh I see plenty of people complaining but only a few are willing to try another platform like nostr or mastodon or whatever else. “I don’t want a solution, I want to be mad”
Running isn't any long term solution. That is why people are mad. Censorship follows where the people are. If a critical mass of people goes to mastodon, that is where the advertising and censorship will go. Just like how it went to reddit after a critical mass went there.
The comparison doesn’t even make sense. Reddit is a centralized platform, not a protocol.
I won’t say it’s impossible to censor something like nostr but good luck with that.