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@dansup Are you serious, Dan? Is this satire?
How did Meta/Facebook become a trillion-dollar corporation? By violating your privacy en masse.
https://ar.al/2022/02/07/everyone-hates-facebook-but-this-is-more-than-just-about-facebook/
What SWF is doing is giving Facebook legitimacy; enabling it to launder its reputation using *your* legitimacy.
Let me put it plainly: in Mark’s eyes Pixelfed—however small—is a competitor and a potential future threat. He’s not going to help you hurt him. He will, however, embrace, extend and extinguish you.
Aral Balkan · Everyone Hates Facebook (but this is more than just about Facebook)“And my timelines lit up in a rare unity, the left and right, the rich and the poor, the healthy and the sick, all pleading and nodding and saying, yes, yes please, please do that.” - Adam Dalliance
Well, it’s official, everybody hates Facebook.
But why we hate it matters. As does what we intend to do about it.
For more good reasons to hate Facebook and other people farmers, watch my talk, The Camera Panopticon.
@dansup To illustrate the second point:
Aral Balkan · I was wrong about Google and Facebook: there’s nothing wrong with them (so say we all)It’s always difficult admitting you’re wrong. But sometimes, it’s exactly what you have to do in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary. So, today, I admit that I was wrong about Google, Facebook, and surveillance capitalism in general being toxic for our human rights and democracy.
You see, it simply cannot be true given how they are endorsed by some of the most well-respected groups and organisations in the world.