• technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    59 minutes ago

    I guess this is what fascists consider “freedom”.

    Personally I would rather escape wasting my life in servitude to capital.

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world
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    FB won’t even do anything about the constant bombardment of scammer profiles that hit you if you post on any public group. They are always some attractive woman (stolen pics probably) with a profile that is a few months old and 1-2 posts at best. They always have the same message “I saw your profile pic! Friend me!” or some such crap.

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    Let’s for a second assume it is a mental illness, how does that make the people feel who are experiencing it? Do they feel loved and understood? If you suffered from the same mental illness where the most effective treatment is tolerance and acceptance, how would you like to be treated?

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      I’ve encountered people disagreeing with ASD ending with D, because people are born, live and die autistic, and also autistic people usually understand each other well enough, it’s with non-autistic people where their communication impairment shows, mostly. And rigidity of thought, sensory issues and such can be arguably considered difference, not impairment.

      So yes, “mental illness” is an unpleasant thing to say, especially about things which are not developed and treated during one’s life.

      But this is simply not what the issue is about.

      The issue is about moderation of social platforms, that one must choose between “the platform” moderating content by this or that policy.

      But in fact this is all gaslighting, bullshit, scam. Because in the era of web forums there were no platforms at all, and moderation was still a thing. Due to bigger load on moderators and those being from the not so huge number of active users of some forum, moderator’s rights could be customized very precisely, say, certain kind of discussion certain Alice can be trusted to moderate, and some other kind of discussion not really (due to having a strong opinion), or maybe there’s Bob who can be allowed to make warnings and approve new registrations, but can’t be allowed to delete messages and ban users.

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    7 hours ago

    Fuck Meta and Zuck. I wish I could stop using WhatsApp, as every other Meta product is out of my devices already.

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      37 minutes ago

      Every journey needs a first step.

      Try to convince some of your contacts to use something else. Repeat until a large chunk of your contacts are available outside WhatsApp, and make yourself increasingly harder to access through WhatsApp and increasingly easier to access on your preferred alternative.

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      5 hours ago

      I wish our government actually regulated these corporations so they are not able to have a tentacle in so many essential technologies.

      All of the symptoms of the crushing power of techbro oligarchs are directly tied to failures of govt to regulate.

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        This has been true since “sign in with Facebook” became a thing.

        I think with Brazil banning Xitter, and I reckon Starmer might too given how much Musk has attacked him, it might be come more of a thing.

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    8 hours ago

    ?? If you go through insta reels and comments you will encounter a metric called “n words / minute”, I don’t think meta cared about moderation at any point

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    11 hours ago

    They always did because their moderators didn’t act upon old rules anyway.

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    Looking at what’s already been said I will most probably get down voted, but it should only back my words up.

    People should be able to write everything they want on the internet. And I should have the right to totally ignore everything they say. So why should I become a snowflake and care about other people’s opinion or think a big corporation will moderate somebody out of their platform? 🤔

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      It isn’t about being a snowflake and I think ppl should learn to be respectful towards each other. It would be a disservice to all of us if no one moderates the internet just look at the Andrew Tate case. There are too many ppl out there who do not understand what it means to hurt another person (regardless of reason). It is easy to ignore comments not directed at you but it becomes easily bullying which can become doxing and escalate fast, especially if you ignore it (have you not been in a school with kids/teen? Same things, it escalate until someone steps in. The teacher moderate and there are rules to not bully, it still happens but someone is on standby at least).

      Watching other ppl hurting someone is a bad experience for everyone not just the offenders and victims.

      Facebook is such a hateful place to be at that I am never logged in there.

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      Because if you don’t care they get offended.

      The irony is that these platforms never did bother to moderate. I’ll occasionally flag some comments that are very obvious hate speech and the response is always “we found nothing wrong”.

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        I’ve given up flagging misinformation on FB. They don’t even give you a clear option for it except for very specific categories.

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    On the bright side, if there’s a boomer who only posts bad memes about how much he hates his wife, you can say he has a mental illness.

    You could before, because it’s true, but you still can too.

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      5 hours ago

      Never has been:

      According to the text messages, Zuckerberg wrote, “Yeah, so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard, just ask me. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS.”

      In response, a friend inquired, “What? How did you manage to obtain all that?”

      To which Zuckerberg callously replied, “People just submitted it. I don’t know why they ‘trust me.’ Dumb f****.”

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    16 hours ago

    greed is a mental illness.

    billionaires are greedy.

    the rich are a plague upon society and must be quarantined.

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    When we start to say “bad things” about the oligarchy watch hoe fast they shut that down

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      12 hours ago

      The problem with western oligarchs is that they rarely step foot on public land …so it’s really hard to track their schedules let alone get a shoot shot off.

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        A fun non-lethal approach is to just try to sabotage their planes while they’re on the ground. Shooting a hole in the window of a flying aircraft, generally frowned upon. Shooting a hole in a billionaire’s sky yacht while it’s empty in it’s hangar…well that’s just property damage that happens to prevent them from poisoning the atmosphere.

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    My mom believes the bullshit about LGBTQ being a mental illness. Can’t wait for it to get worse! Thanks Facebook!

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    As far as internet content goes, hate is winning. All the major social media platforms have been overrun by sexist, racist, LGBTQphobic commentary. And these platforms will simply follow the money, pushing hate content via algorithms as good people leave the platforms.

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      Make two Reddit accounts, one saying “I love trans people” and one saying “I hate trans people”. I bet the latter will get banned first.

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      And these platforms will simply follow the money

      This, remember that every single pride sponsorship and rainbow coloured logo was approved by a marketing department after extensive market research deeming it to be profitable

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      This couldn’t be further from the truth.