• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    Omfg, don’t talk to Meta’s chatbot. Period. Don’t use Facebook.

    I can’t believe it’s 2026, and people still think Meta somehow has any neutrality—after it’s been demonstrated time and again that they aren’t just accidentally bad, they’re actively malicious.

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      Preaching to the choir. Every time people send me Facebook crap they seem aghast I don’t use it and won’t look at it. Happily banned.

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        I just use it for marketplace, and when I get on I check the feed and it’s worse every time I get on, glitchy, doesn’t show you friend posts anymore all groups instead, and otherwise just is unpleasant to use. They aren’t making it better either or fixing any of those glitches because they’ve no competition I would add.

        But a straight laced guy I know, had his business on there, not breaking any laws, older, got his account removed with no explanation, no way for him to contact anyone, everything gone, for supposedly violating community standards.

        We should have rights, we should have a clear set of rules with an appealable process but also legal protections for when the rules are applied unfairly. Instead we have the government and big business pressuring them to apply the rules unfairly or else they will go after them on regulation and what have you. Half the time it’s the government that is the one behind someone getting banned for no good reason, whereas in civilized countries they can appeal unfair actions to a court to reinstate users, as I understand it.

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          Just stop though. Even marketplace. Your use is still condoning and advocating it. You are encouraging others to rely on it.

          Same with Instagram and what’s app.

          Just stop people.

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            Where can we get used stuff without it though? There are no classified ads, I can’t not get used gear sometimes I don’t have the money to buy new all the time.

            I want to quit but I need it sometimes for that if there are no other workable options.

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              Ask people. Craigslist. Offerup. Neighborhood swaps.

              Do you absolutely need to buy things?

              Either way, the reason there aren’t other options is because people aren’t quitting. So they won. And you are basically handing money over to Facebook to do more of the same.

              The only way out is to quit.

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          I only use it for marketplace too with a fake name and only access it on a computer that I don’t care about much. Fuck Facebook for taking my precious Craigslist away from me.

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            They have long been banning people for that, I think 15 years have said people have to use their real names, and have froze peoples’ accounts (not letting them delete them until unfroze,) and demanded ID and video of themselves moving this way and that and doing such and such. Even then they’ve denied legitimate users I’ve heard so it’s odd.

            But they do target people for using fake names, and it’s getting enshrined into law in a lot of places if we don’t stop them. Lawmakers really want to be able to crush any dissent, whether it’s on their foreign policy, climate change, environmental protests, or soon protests about them, and economic situations. They want age checks identifying every account and ip and palantir type organizations giving social scores and distributing threat assessments to business and government to be used against you secretly in a way you cannot know about or challenge.

            Being rolled out worldwide at the same time, surrendering us to tech.

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                I don’t care if mine gets proscribed, I will quit using it before I verify my identity, even if I could trust them not to let others have my identity. I am currently removing all internet companies that forced me to use my phone to verify my account despite me not wanting that ever.

                Except for like my bank, but even then, I want email to work, I don’t want to be locked out of everything if I lose my phone, it’s charge, or it’s service. And it’s not like it’s secure either. Dropped old emails accounts. Hopefully switching to linux at some point for phone and computer. But dropping any social media that tries to make me verify my identity.

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      Up to this day I have never had an account and never ever looked at their shit. And guess what I have been missing since then? Exactly. Social media is mostly cancer and Rest Propaganda. Especially if its us-owned.

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    No need to use fancy drugs with a paper trail and permission slips, pennyroyal tea will do the trick, not the oil which is dangerous, just the herb steeped in water. It’s safe, or was, until 2021 when search engines scrubbed those results and replaced them with articles calling it unsafe conflating use of the oil with the herb. Like comparing poppy tea to injected heroin, volatile oils are distilled, and evaporate at lower temperatures than water, so they steep in hot water and draw off the fumes below boiling point, and masses of plant are condensed down to a drop. They are very strong.

    The tea used as instructed is safe to induce miscarriges though, or was before the enshitification of search engines, if you consider google to be the arbiter of knowledge. It’s also worth noting woman will be charged for murder for miscarriges, so not leaving a paper trail will be more important, as will not leaving electronic traces, don’t use search engines as is to search for stuff like this if one is going to do such a thing.

    Abortion through plants as such, like pennyroyal, a mint, is mentioned in the bible, not negatively either I would add, the entire thing was a cynical play to turn the religious to support big business’ malign goals. Opposing big business is where I’m at here.

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      I wasn’t expecting that topic here, but that was an eye-opener. I still can’t understand and gather the rationale behind why people give two fucks what women do with their bodies. Why do they need “your” permission? I never understood it.

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    The voluntary mind dump I gave my information to fir their monetization schemes has turned on me!