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Meta won't let you block its AI account on Threads(theverge.com) |
Nope: 5 years after I feel good about not being a dopamine-addicted sheep (At least to Meta). It makes me sick to my stomach whenever I go to a public place and see so many people mindlessly losing their life watching reels and stories full of ads. I Used to take the Caltrain and I estimate >50% of the people were mindlessly scrolling instagram during the 1 hour train ride.
The best time to delete * Meta was yesterday. The next best time is Today.
(To be honest I recreated a bogus account to sell things on MarketPlace and I cannot believe the amount of crap constantly pushed to me)
Sure, I can talk to my close friends on any number of IM platforms, but if I want to get out and have new experiences, join club meetups, be notified of events at venues I care about, etc. - it's Meta or miss out.
I thought I would miss out on many events, but then I just signed up to a few more newsletters and that's still more events than I have time to vist.
I still wish we had a proper replacement for FB events. At least we have a nice market place platform that everyone uses (willhaben.at). For a long time I didn't even know that FB MarketPlace exists.
All the cool kids left FB a decade ago. You're not missing anything.
Deleting your account may not make even a pixel of difference in their KPI graphs, but -in addition to the mental benefits- you get the moral one of not being a participant in this mess…
Just as I'm sure the number of people blocking the account got to some middle manager somewhere who made it that day's mission to "fix" it.
Then I permanently block youtube and reddit on phone. I've explored quite a few blockers - AppBlock for android is the best I've used / has no bugs on my now older s21.
You ask, it answers and that's it. It should not take over the feed.
I like the Grok Button at the side of Tweet, I dont like "@grok is this true"
Facebook now has AI nonsense that look like reels, or whatever they call reels. So I nope out of those too.
Being difficult in this way, when most other people, particularly non technical people, don't have a problem with this, in my experience significantly hurts your opportunities and limits the types of people you socialize with in real life, which I think can eventually be harmful.
You really can live without social media.
I’ve deleted all my Meta accounts and other social media accounts and have lost touch with many people and find it much harder to meet new people.
Personally, I accept that tradeoff but can see how others wouldn’t (or can’t).
If there is more friction to communicate with me I expect to hear from people less often.
As an example, my friends that only use Discord and not SMS or Signal definitely hear from me less frequently. It doesn’t mean we’re not friends, but we do communicate less frequently.
(note - this is snarky and I don't actually fully disagree with you)
“I don’t want a solution, I want to be mad”
But I haven't been able to recruit for it. And the app I used died and was removed from the play store. I use it to read interesting conversations between european hackers.
It certainly hasnt paid dividends to run my own masto server. I will be retiring it and moving my account somewhere else. I dont post anything there, because nobody I know is there, and so why care about owning my own data?
Metcalfe was right etc etc.
I tried Nostr but there wasn't a great algorithim. All the interesting things are on twitter. I don't really see a huge point in having an account on twitter, though—it feels like all comments go into the void.
I just use xcancel.
I can’t speak to your interests or city, but as a rule, the greatest trick the social apps ever pulled was convincing the world that they are the only way to receive information.
Berlin, Germany
Most venues and places are slowly going away from closed gardens.
They are? Honestly, first time hearing about this. I've noticed only big events get posted outside of the IG/etc. Even in Tokyo, a simple thing like checking if a place is open on a public holiday is to check their Instagram.
It's definitely not the size of the city that matters, as I was in NYC and only recently relocated to a smaller (but still major) city.
We need to shame artists/events/clubs that only post on Instagram
I'm part of some local photography groups. There's a Discord where members plan informal get togethers, but the big events are all posted on Instagram.
I follow a number of local bartenders, and their popup events are all on Instagram. Same for local performing artists.
My bike club coordinates through a Facebook page.
Honestly, none of my non-tech interests are viable (in a group setting) without Meta properties.
It’s like saying “none of my group interests are viable unless I smoke”.
I already spend my entire work day surrounded by tech workers, I'm not going to change my hobbies to spend more time around them.
Be fucking serious
Consider the grammar
Hey Alice, did you see the event for Chris's band?
No
It was on Facebook, publically posted (audience set to public)
I'm not on Facebook
Like... you post something public on FB/IG and people STILL CAN'T SEE IT because apparently 'public' means 'must make an account'. It's insanity
I gave up and got Instagram.
At least he did them the courtesy of telling them exactly what the problem was.