This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/35800407
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Why did it take this long? Facebook and Instagram use signals support of facism.
Once again like others said, drop Facebook! Lots of fake profiles, scam ads and miss information.
I agree but fb is the only place for musicians and show/event notifications, not to mention TONs of non tech savvy small businesses use fb SOLELY for their business info and hours.
Its never going away.
If a business uses Facebook only, I boycott them.
Facebook and Instagram won't let me view any of it anyways, but a business should have principles.
Bands In Town works pretty well for all the bands I follow.
Business info can be found anywhere through duckduckgo, google or with a phone call! I never knew that musicians use FB, I guess for promotions ? After leaving FB I used YouTube and bandcamp for new music.
I meant local music and such. There's no other avenue right now for that. Local city events too
If Miss Information gets married, does she become Mrs Information?
Thats Ms Information
It’s Ms Demeanor now
Lol good one!
What's this about AI talking to kids?
I feel like more people should know what’s going on. Facebook has done some scummy stuff in the past. Now Zuck is openly defending his AI grooming children. In and of itself it doesn’t make a lot of sense — what’s the upshot for Meta here? But outside the bubble of logic, it sets kids up to be groomed by real predators. It’s unacceptable.
People say the problem is that all the people they know are on Facebook. Two issues: most of those people would forget you exist if you leave Facebook. Also, you’re the reason they’re there. The second reason is that you are literally the product. You being on Facebook is part of the reason those people are, too, so be the change you want to see in the world.
most of those people would forget you exist if you leave Facebook
This is 100% true. I dropped facebook about 10 years back. If I'm not your "friend" without facebook, then you're not really my friend. Getting out of that cesspool of drama and ignorance was one of the best moves I've made.
He did the same thing on spotify and a little while later all his songs (at least the ones I had in my playlists) were back.
The Almighty dollar always wins doesn't it Neil lol
How are people still on Facebook, I dropped it the moment my parents made Facebook accounts and that was before all the horrible stuff about the cokpany even came out I think
I still cant understand how people got onto there in the first place. When it came out it was obviously a bad idea.
Please somebody tell him about mastodon and lemmy.
So based 🙏
Once again, Neil Young reminds us that he has a gargantuan penis.
Neil Young and Dolly Parton
Role models we need but don't deserve
Honestly, good on him.
More people should do the same.
The way people turned up their nose at the Fediverse when the Muskening happened to Twitter was heartbreaking. I knew social media was an addiction but when you find out your dealer is an absolute monster how do you not go looking for a new supplier?
But they all discarded Mastodon et al as cringe and teduoust. Like, the way even trans women influencers stayed on Twitter blew my mind. When bluesky got off the ground there was finally some migration, but not enough.
It really showed me how many of the "anti-capitalist" and the "anarchism" and "mutual aid" people were all just talk. The mutual-aid volunteer-based platform exists and you stuck with the fascist because it was easy and you're too cool for the nerd shit.
I gotta say, I was among the Twitter Marxist crowd around 3 years ago,and yeah most are just talk, yap and argue, although there were some genuinely making something good, such as a community library or benches for instance. I'd say none of them would switch to the fediverse in any actual capacity, because most just believe in the asthetics and being in the community of like-minded people, instead of actually following the values they allegedly preach, but really don't even know.
He took a principled stance when he left Spotify too, after they paid hundreds of millions for Joe Rogan's podcast.
Edit: Disappointingly, it turns out he went back to Spotify after a couple of years.
I'm pretty sure his label put his stuff back on there, despite his wishes. I seen to remember a need article at the time describing his reaction as "disappointed". Not all of his stuff is back on there, but I guess the stuff he didn't have full control over is.
Personally, I don't listen to Joe Rogan, but I do listen to Neil Young. And Spotify is the way I typically listen to anything since they killed the SD Card on most mobile phones. So it hurt me, and I assume it hurts anyone who would want to listen to both and only gets the option of Joe Rogan. So I think having access to media is better, but I'm not the artist and I get taking a moral stance.
What is up with these CAPS? Are we copying the typographic INCONTINENCE of Trump?
Quite a normal thing to do no? Way before Trump got elected
typographic incontinence
This term tickled my linguizzle gland.
I have noticed people have changed the way they type since around 2016, when trump became president. The amount of people putting "Sad." Behind a sentence is mindblowing. He gave so many people severe brainworms.
Oh that is not all. Future generations might be able to map all the brain rot that man has caused.
Using caps for emphasis in places where formatting options don’t exist is a practice as old as the internet. I remember doing it in the usenet days.
It's a practice at least as old as type itself. It seems the attention Trump garnered, and the highlighting of his stereotypical Boomer typing, have merged the two in some people's minds.
We're at a unique crossroad where Gen X and Y grew up with their grandparents mostly refusing to use cell phones and their parents mostly fumbling with them. Now Gen Z and "Alpha" are growing up with grandparents who have mostly been shamed into acceptable text etiquette, and parents who are mostly as tech savvy as the next parent and who were there when the deep magic was written (so to speak).
Mango Mussolini's narcissism is as pervasive as his parasitism so it's no wonder the lecherous rapist's sins against modern digital convention survived along with him. Some spin that as brilliant tactics but I'm not so sure. I'd wager it's a coincidence he leaned into because it garnered attention.
Most of those now driving online discourse hadn't had the same exposure to that style of texting prior to the 2016 US Presidential election cycle as preceding generations. So it seems novel to them. It's history and perspective bring formed in real time.
On the one hand, that's good, but on the other hand, Meta crossed my line over eight years ago, and I'm woefully disappointed that he was using it until this point.
