Lost my 20 year old FB account. Because I responded to a blatant “The South Will Rise Again” terror post by a bot. I as a joke said. “Can’t wait to meet you in battle.” and that was enough to ban me there. FB is protecting the hateful bigots that click on the Ai content.
Lost my 20 year old FB account. Because I responded to a blatant “The South Will Rise Again” terror post by a bot. I as a joke said. “Can’t wait to meet you in battle.” and that was enough to ban me there. FB is protecting the hateful bigots that click on the Ai content.
Reddit is shadow banning people like crazy as well. This is scary
what’s the difference between government censorship, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government, and corporate censorship by organs closely tied to the government where certain phrases are randomly declared punishable by death?
Yeah, I was shadowbanned twice in a week because Reddit filters are garbage.
What does shadow banning typically look like? I would assume you don’t get a notification? How do you find out?
Logout and browse your user profile page via old.Reddit it’ll say banned or suspended.
Ah. That’s even easier. Good to know how to quickly check.
you do a thing, but there are no interactions. maybe in only certain contexts. so to you it appears as if you’re engaging, but your posts and sometimes reactions/votes don’t show up except to you.
haha. seeing as I don’t usually get much interaction I would never notice.
switched to lemmy as main platform on my phone a few days ago anyway. when boost for reddit finally was blocked completely. will try to be more active here and hope many other people do the same… there is a good chance with all that’s going on.
yeah I probably wouldn’t notice if everyone else in town was replaced by robots tomorrow until I went and tried to feed randos and found they didn’t eat anymore.
How do you find out?
I assume looking at reddit through an incognito window and seeing none of your posts appearing
Hmm. Will try it some time. Sometimes it feels like being shadow-banned… but TBH it’s more likely just not so active communities / mediocre contribution on my part.
Shut down and delete your data on your US tech accounts. Their business’s are worthless without our accounts.
It’s a process, start today! With the easy ones and work towards the hard ones.
Agreed.
To be fair, American democracy was replaced with corporate Government a long long time ago.
Ya, but now you can’t talk about it.
America was never a democracy in the first place
For a little bit there it had a shot, though
Everyone needs to GTFO facebook. We can hardly do it because every other HOA and School PTA is there, but we get stop using messenger and stop having personal discussions over there.
I was fortunate that my partner never used Facebook, so I got to hold “communication with their sibling/child” over their heads and get the family chat onto signal. That was my last thing I had to do before I could delete my account
The most fun was sending a message to each of the Facebook friends: hi (name) I’m deleting my Facebook account, if you want to contact me online I can be reached on signal at (signal ID)
My wife and I were on Facebook Messenger a lot. Then she started pointing out every time we would talk about any topic she would get ads for it. I talked her into using signal.
We added the teenager into it, now the only serious problem I have is the little one could stand to be on the family chat in signal but he doesn’t have a phone number.
I tried making an account for him with my Google voice number, for some reason it refused on his Wi-Fi only tablet. So I made him an account using my real phone number, then remade my account using my Google voice number on my phone which worked, But now his signal account flips back and forth between his name and my name and it’s just very confused. It’s good enough but I wish there was some way you could do signal without having to do a phone number. Especially a sub account for kids you know…
I thought I heard recently about signal allowing a different ID system, but I think that’s about not having to share your phone number, as against them IDing you with a phone number which I expect they will keep doing
signal allowing a different ID system
It used to surface your number to all your contacts, now they only see your handle.
Still have to use a phone number to sign up.
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Oh they can’t force you. You can always rely on the pta just to send you papers home and backpacks and you don’t really need to talk to your neighbors or have them report problems in a public forum
There’s enough value for these places that I still go back to Facebook for it, they’re not forcing me. They just make it worth it.
Yeah that’s them network effects
Contact those places and ask for an alternative -the less people participate the quieter the discussions the more likely they are to at least try to switch over if they start feeling some pressure.
I agree that it needs to happen but contacting these places and asking them for an alternative is a lot like contacting a deep sea tube worm and asking it to learn brain surgery.
They’re probably capable of moving from one social platform to another, But it’s a lot of work and they’re destroying their network every time so they’re highly resistant.
If Apple wasn’t such a pain in the ass about notification services We could probably crowdsource NTFY and let everyone use it for schools non-profits and such
The best we could expect us for them to move to Blue sky. Health in my case half of them just recently moved off Twitter.
Yeah, I dumped facebook right after the election but unfortunately most of my friends and family are only on WhatsApp.
WhatsApp is a serious problem. There are quite a number of countries that are running a lot of their business through it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
WATCH THIS IF YOURE NOT SURE WHAT HES BANNING THE DISCUSSION OF
It’s terrifying
Very important video indeed
Yup, this is a very important video. She’s hardly the first to address it too.
any terminally ill people down to go down in history as a fucking chad with a rifle or a drone?? anyone??
We’re all terminally ill on a long enough timeline.
So… Was that an offer to be our chad?
im canadian, i wouldnt want to cause ww3 by assassinating a foreign leader.
Sorry Americans, this is your mess, you gotta clean it up this time :/
cause world war 3
dude, if a canadian assassinated any american leaders, I’d just think more highly of canadians.
plus, they’re gonna invade you at some point anyway.
not that it should be your responsibility. the travel costs alone; oof. there are people who walk by these bastards every day.
Wait, corporate government, like in cyberpunk?
My friends have been describing America now as cyberpunk without the cybernetics. We have no neuromancers
Basically. I mean there’s a bit more to it than that but it’s the core idea. It’s also the goal of several tech oligarchs which is why he doesn’t want the peons to be able to talk about it.
Nah. Like in Snowcrash.
The term cyberpunk was first used to describe settings such as Snowcrash, i.e. dystopian corporate sci-fi, before it was adopted as a name for the gaming franchise.
I’m not sure if the person you are replying to was using it as a noun or an adjective, I parsed it is an adjective because it’s more inclusive.
Anyway… using cyberpunk to refer to the game franchise, would be a disambiguation. This is the article referring to the original usage.
I was referring to cyberpunk as a genre and theme, I remembered some things after reading this post like shadowrun, cyberpunk ttrpg, Gibson’s books, system shock, etc.
Yeah, I just tend to think of that stuff as corporate feudalism. And I learned that concept from playing shadowrun as a kid and then getting into other cyberpunk stuff.
And yeah, it seems to be the direction we are headed. Elon musk is a fan of blade runner and I don’t think he identifies with the poor people but the rich CEO.
They’re both nouns, but I get what you mean.
Yep, I just want more people to read the book because I like it. Cyberpunk the game rocks, Snowcrash rocks.
I’m reading the Sprawl trilogy along with Shelved By Genre, and Gibson harps on the note that ‘the Ultra Rich aren’t human’, and has some great examples in the books.
I think he was very observant, and Musk makes it so blatant.
Speedrunning to cp2077, starting with the corpo wars
Really I’d wager it’s more Snow Crash myself, it’s a book that most of these Silicon Valley guys would have grown up with.
Cyberpunk 2077 was just a continuation of Cyberpunk 2020, which came out before Snow Crash.
In reality, I think the tech bros pull from all sorts of media and don’t restrict themselves to just one bible.
That’s a good point. Snow Crash does lean heavily into the metaverse in a way that is very aligned with Zuckerberg’s concept of it. I remember early interviews with some silicon valley guys and when Stephenson was the darling out there l, like with the early Xbox guys or Google Earth.
Maybe Cyberpunk was popular too but just didn’t break through to more mainstream news.
I am but a sample size of one, but I’ve got a copy of CP2020 and not Snow Crash, haha.
And here I have a copy of snow crash but not the 2020 books
I am a Taco Bell man myself. Gotta side with winners, ya know?
They will have a gun that induces violent diarrhea. I guarantee it.
I love a good
pizzataco
Delay, Deny, [redacted]
Quit Meta… problem solved
I have another solution, it’s a little bloodier
Free rare steaks for anyone who quits! But how will we pay for it…
I had never heard about the “Network State” concept before, but now I hate it, because Zuckerberg sure as hell loves it
the only reason to ban it is if it’s their plan
Someone else already posted it, but I’ll post it too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no
Oh, this is the 15-minute cities they’re scared of.
Fucking insane how these people twist a good idea in to something evil, then support the evil version of that idea.
I think they do that on purpose. These powerful players not the idiots voting for them.
fuck facebook
facefuck facebook
Fuck book
Hot singles want to FUCK in your area
Edit: I guess no one saw the raunchy pop up ads back in the day for “fuckbook?”
