Enshittification had already been largely discussed here.
I saw users minimizing the aberrant business practices of Meta and doubting their role in assisting in genocide.
My point was to highlight how unethical and horrendous Meta itself is.
For the Meta apologists, I have a reality check for you:
Threads was immediately subject to mass amounts of radicalizing, extremist content, and there have also been instances of users having personal information doxxed on Threads due to Meta’s information-harvesting practices. [1]
Threads was marketed to be open to ‘free speech’ (read: hate speech and misinformation) and encouraged the Far-Right movement to join, who have spread extremism, hate, and harassment on Threads already. [2] Threads has been a hotbed of Israel-Palestine misinformation/propaganda. [3] They also fired fact-checkers just prior to Threads’ launch. [1]
As already established, Meta also assisted in genocide! [4]
Meta/FB/Instagram also have a strong history of facilitating the spread of misinformation and extremism, which contributed to the January 6th insurrection attempt. [5], [6]
This really should be obvious by now… but Meta mines and sells their user’s information.[7] Just look at the permissions you have to grant them for Threads…
FB users have to agree to all sorts of unethical things in the TOS, including giving Meta permission to run unethical experiments on their users without informed consent. [8] Their first published research was where they manipulated users’ feeds with positive or negative information, in order to see if it affected their mood. It did, and they successfully induced depression in many of their users!
I will now turn to an article that surmises well the core practices of Meta as a company:
Elevates disinformation campaigns and conspiracy theories from the extremist fringes into the mainstream, fostering, among other effects, the resurgent anti-vaccination movement, broad-based questioning of basic public health measures in response to COVID-19, and the proliferation of the Big Lie of 2020—that the presidential election was stolen through voter fraud [16];
Empowers bullies of every size, from cyber-bullying in schools, to dictators who use the platform to spread disinformation, censor their critics, perpetuate violence, and instigate genocide;
Defrauds both advertisers and newsrooms, systematically and globally, with falsified video engagement and user activity statistics;
Reflects an apparent political agenda espoused by a small core of corporate leaders, who actively impede or overrule the adoption of good governance;
Brandishes its monopolistic power to preserve a social media landscape absent meaningful regulatory oversight, privacy protections, safety measures, or corporate citizenship; and
Disrupts intellectual and civil discourse, at scale and by design. [9]
I hadn’t noticed until the posts were weeks old, so I didn’t want to dig thru the mod log…
i don’t know why they “trust me” dumb fucks
Real quote from Mark Fuckerburg.
yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard just ask i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns
That’s precisely why I left L.W. They also were removing community posts voicing opposition to threads federation. I witnessed it firsthand, where posts I commented in (and in which the majority of comments opposed it) were removed.
Now they removed the piracy communities again after promising not to. They are straight up untrustworthy and don’t care about what their users actually want.
I am happy on feddit.de. They are defederated from Threads and the tankie instances.
Yeah lemmy.ml has gotten worse with tankies, but it’s no where near as bad as the others. And I still want to see some lemmy.ml communities (tech, gaming).
But unless it’s changed with some of the recent updates, blocking instances as a user (on lemmy) only blocks posts from the instance but still allows interaction with their users in comments of posts. It’s different for kbin and mastodon.
I don’t want the annoyance of arguing with tankies from their main instances. I’d rather be defederated.
Also, why go back to lemm.ee and do that when I don’t need to on feddit.de? That seems kind of silly in the first place.
I remember a news segment where monozygotic (identical) twins had different results for their genealogy. Their efficacy and reproducibility should definitely be questioned.
Not to mention the problem of your DNA info being sold and used for nefarious purposes. Not just by hackers, but if the company is bought out by a different organization, they don’t have to honor the terms of 23andMe or Ancestory.com regarding not selling you data.
Edit: Here’s the story.
Their comment wasn’t out of touch, but your faith in the mainstream DNA testing market certainly is.
You’ve gotta block the communities yourself. I feel your pain, but what you’re requesting isn’t going to happen.
Every time I come across an anime community, I block it. But there are so many that keep popping up…
My block list is filled with so many anime, furry, and shitposting communities. It’s a bit annoying and an uphill battle, but you’ve got to go to their communities and block them individually (but also block the anime instances).
I really don’t lie. Unless it’s for safety or a white lie not to hurt someone’s feelings, I don’t feel the need to stoop to lying.
I accept my faults and I’ll admit wrongdoing before I lie. I’m not concerned with what other people think of me, so I speak my truth even if it will drive others away from me. If that happens, they aren’t the kind of people I want to associate with anyway.
I value honesty, authenticity, and empathy and hold myself strictly to the standards I’ve set in my mind and personal philosophy.
I don’t lie or say anything on the internet that I wouldn’t say in real life. I can’t personally comprehend the point or drive to lie on the internet. I’d rather focus effort on self-actualization rather than make-believe.
He hasn’t fought a single pro boxer in his weight class.
He’s fought outside his weight class and he’s boxed fighters who were not boxers.
He has not had a single honest professional boxing match.
His fight with Mike Tyson is the going to be the closest he’s come, but it’s still absolutely ridiculous given the 30 year age gap and the fact that Mike Tyson has been retired.
Jake piece of shit Paul has definitely trained hard and has a proficiency in boxing, but he hasn’t come close to putting that to the test fighting active pros in his weight class.
Until he does so, he’s just a joke.
I hope he gets torn apart by Mike Tyson, but I think the fight is total absurdity.
This will be the first time he actually fights a pro boxer, but he of course was too much of a punk to fight a current pro.
Despite Mike’s age, I don’t know if punk ass Jake Paul will have an answer for Iron Mike’s head movement and fury.
I worry that Mike Tyson might gas out and that Jake removed ass Paul could take the victory simply due to the 30 year age gap.
If he wants to be a real boxer, he should be fighting a current pro in his weight class. He’s a fucking clown.
Mike Tyson’s training footage. He’s still a monster…
First of all, totally irrelevant post…
Secondly, this is blatantly false…
The way you test (all) melons for ripeness is by flicking them. Learned this from Morgan Freeman in Jet Li’s Unleashed, and it totally works.
Once I got it down, I have had about 100% reliability.
I get 3x as many groceries at Costco for the same price as at Walmart.
Jerboa recently introduced it, but you can turn it off in settings.
Such a terrible feature imo…
Sort your comments by controversial and take your pick.
You’re an edgelord with insensitive comments including antisemitism and racism. I’d venture to guess it probably had something to do with that.
Absolutely. I cannot fathom how people can justify Hamas’ terrorism or Isreal’s genocide.
I’ve condemned both groups since the beginning and support only the innocent civilians being starved, tortured, and slaughtered.
Another giveaway is the writing on the dude’s hat (upper left). I always check the hands and any text in the image. Those are dead giveaways.
Super Mario 64 on my switch. Reminds me of great childhood memories.