I rarely use Instagram but am about to delete my account there. Will be ceasing to use Whatsapp too, and hopefully deleting my account. I’m otherwise off of meta products. Only problem I foresee is that when traveling outside the US, everyone tends to want to use WhatsApp.
Edit: anyone recommend a WhatsApp alternative? Privacy and widespread adoption are the top concerns. I’m defaulting back to Signal, but I know there have been some issues with it
Signal
Signal is the best option. The only downside being that it relies on your cell number. Otherwise it’s the most secure platform/protocol.
What’s the best option if you don’t want to use your phone number?
The consequences: none
If you search #trans, or #transgender, or #lgbt absolutely no results lol. Searching just #lgb works fine though. Awesome
Searching just #lgb works fine though
Let’s Go Bisexuals!
It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It’s not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.
I wonder if trump is now paying people to comb back through previous posts to look for things he can delete or edit to rewrite history. Now that I’ve said I feel fairly sure he’s doing exactly that because he does anything dishonest that he can which is tolerated
I don’t think so. My understanding is NARA actually owns those accounts. He’ll disable NARA and then go back and change posts made during Obama and Biden’s presidencies.
Nara?
National Archives and Records Administration
Thanks. Makes sense
Oh there will most definitely be a Ministry of Truth.
Yeah, except he’ll never pay them.
That just sounds like a dumb way to do it.
Itsan outdated practice but its not stupid in a traditional democracy. Who the elected official is should not make a difference in wether or not people are interested to know what government communicates.
Changing it would be like if in the old days your dedicated radio station changing frequencies because they got a new boss. Plenty (old people) would just be confused on why there is no news.
That’s the way they do it, these accounts belong to the current potus and vp
It’s almost like the president doesn’t actually matter and the state will violently serve capital regardless.
Almost, but really not at all.
Great context
Important context, yes.
But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.
So its not as clean here as it seems.
Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add “archive”
Probably because Melania doesn’t want to use it.
She was just gonna copy paste Dr. Biden’s posts anyway.
Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don’t autosub people to the new different account.
“Under fire”. Wake me up when someone actually does something about it.
Zuck…you’ve got orange…all over your face and throat…
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Do not kill yourself. That will be a waste of life. Take out as many wealthy people as you can first before they stop you…
ShittyLifeProTip: If you’re feeling suicidal, make sure to take some fascists with you.
If the situation was hopeless, their propaganda would be unnecessary
White terrors are evidence fascists fear left wing survival even when they’ve won.
I was trying to practice Cunningham’s Law and you, my friend, are the one to prove it. This is what I needed to hear.
Let’s not forget to blast the assholes responsible for this (the individuals, not the company) as we all leave the crappy platforms so it doesn’t affect us personally.
Yes the correct answer is don’t be on facebook or anything it owns, but also nobody should be doing this, anywhere. Keep the heat on the bastards.
Also, use a good adblocker to prevent Facebook tracking you as a non-user. Ublock and Privacy Badger are useful.
Lol not even a fuckin full day.
Do your service and convince your parents to leave every Meta product.
Thankfully, mine are too old to ever give a shit about anything on the internet. Sadly, my mother watches fox 24/7… my father doesn’t care for any of it at least and also pokes fun at her for watching that garbage. He still thinks Trump is good because, in his views, he made his stock the highest it ever was, and that’s all that matters. I’m only grateful we never talk about any of it when they see my kids or on holidays.
My mom wouldn’t leave Facebook if you paid her. She treats it like it’s the entirety of the Internet
I thought Facebook was dying a few years back and I only became more convinced when an older family member was trying to convince me that it wasn’t.
A social media app that targets old people can’t last.
Block it at their router and blacklist it on her phone
Lol I don’t live at home but if I did that it would just make my brother’s life hell as he had to try and troubleshoot
Better yet, have it redirect to a fake Facebook that pisses them off so much they change platforms
I don’t think that would work in the iOS app even if I wanted it to
What’s the equivalent easy(ish) to use / post replacement for them?
Friendica for Facebook
Pixelfed for Instagram
Loops for Tiktok maybe, Haven’t tried either though
Choice of XMPP/Signal/Element for whatsapp
yeah, lemme just sit on friendica all by myself because im the only person in my life that knows what any of this is, no one is moving to these that has a large presence on the meta versions
Okay, but if you’re Friendica user you can natively interact with ActivityPub services like Lemmy or Mastodon, and there are addons enabled on some instances adding BlueSky and Tumblr as well, so if you know anyone using them, you’ll be able to interact with them
Also if you’re interested in following people you don’t know, there’s Friendica directory, so you’ll not be alone
This is the first I’ve heard of it and I’ve been here since the Reddit exodus
Your average person, let alone tech illiterate boomers, is never going to hop on to federated services.
As-is, no, but an app with a slick dumbed down interface that all we nerds already here despise and equally slick on-boarding flow that hides all the “technical” details could
Just need to frame it right. Facebook is full of <insert country they don’t like> propaganda, frendica is much harder to not.
Pixelfed is also good enough that Zuck is actively blocking it, so we’ve got one.
Except all the people switching to Bluesky?
The issue isn’t federation, it’s the onboarding and “style” of social media.
Also I don’t think there is a Facebook equivalent is there? If people weren’t on Reddit they aren’t gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.
My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I’ve been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.
Bluesky is still a good win for us! Not perfect for many, but still a damn good step in the right direction 😁
For kids there is TinyBeans. That’s half the reason my older family uses FB anyway… and no way in hell am I putting my kid on FB.
Can you see how Zuckerberg’s face is turning orange?
Are you suggesting that zuckgöring wasn’t always cheeto orange? News to me.
I’ve just sent messages to my elderly relatives that they’ll no longer find me on Facebook.
That was my only remaining reason for using it. I’ve never had a use for Instagram, or Xitter for that matter.
Right-Wingers were never anti-censorship look at how they handle books in school.
Ugh. And they can do whatever they want. The vast majority of people, even if they care a little, won’t jump ship.
Social media is looking more like a religion these days.
Everyone who is semi intelligent knew this was going to happen. People need to quit acting like theybare surprised. It’s going to get worse, and the only people protected are rich white people who suck up to evil. Even then you’re not safe. Bumpler was good friends with Epstein until Epstein bought a piece of property that krumpler wanted. That’s why they stopped being friends. It wasn’t the sex trafficking that turned him away.
“What are you going to do? Leave? Hahaha.”
–Marky Mark, probably
“Yes, if I could, please. Would that be okay?” — more people than you’d like to imagine
