Kraiden

joined 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I feel like it's app dependent. We use discord, and I feel like I get 1 notification per channel, but then other apps like LinkedIn (for shame!) are fucking incessant, and will REnotify me multiple times for things I've already dismissed. It's infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Psh, I'm already doing that! I'm using smoke signals to write this right now!

Serious response: How would a movement like that spread awareness of itself?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They should take it literally, because it is meant literally!

They're not exploiting customers, they are exploiting people. Those people are NOT their customers.

Facebook is literally selling people in data form. Everything you post, everyone you interact with, everything you look at across most of the web (not just facebook.com) is all catalogued and used to create a fingerprint that is a digital representation of you, and that is their product! "Essence of /u/Melt for sale here"

Their customers are advertisers.

ETA: Link

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

those running Facebook groups routinely find that their content isn’t even being shown to those who choose to follow them thanks to Meta’s outright abusive approach to social media where the customer is not only wrong, but should ideally have little control over what they see.

inhales deeply YOU ARE NOT THE CUSTOMER!!! YOU ARE THE PRODUCT!!!!

It astounds me how many people STILL don't understand this

[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 months ago

I prefer flipping that number on it's head. 15%. They delivered 15% of what they promised and are now saying "fuck it."

It's the equivalent of writing your name on the exam, and then sitting there doodling for the rest of the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I've just spent the last 3 days reading this off of your rec. It's... wild. And then to follow it up by seeing this is just... too weird.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I feel this. I'm well aware that if my partner wasn't on Facebook, we wouldn't have a social life. I HATE that fact, but that, sadly, is where people put their events. I don't think I'd join if she left, but I can't deny that I benefit from her being on the platform.

She won't leave until everybody else does, and they won't leave until everybody else does, and so nobody leaves. It's dystopian.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You're forgetting about the schmuck on the other end of that equation that has to answer the same question a thousand times over.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

After covid, this strikes me as a dangerous thing to say. Are you an immunologist and could you expound on this?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

nature is metal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Have they said that or are you just implying that? It's beta right now but I'd put money on them following in Google's footsteps and integrating right into the main search.

It's enshitification because instead of simply fixing their crappy SEO laden results, they're pushing this new thing.

I'm also willing to bet that once it's out of beta there will be either a limit on free searches or it'll just be straight up subscription model.

And just like that, normal search is dead, and the only viable option is to pay for their new thing

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