You don't even have to make a bad decision. Just a completely innocuous one that gets flagged by shitty AI with no human review and no recourse.

It's hard to even call what Facebook provides "facing", for anyone without an account.

They've made even viewing pages while logged out so infuriating-bordering-on-impossible these days that if I encounter a business with Facebook as their only online presence, I just move on down the list.

It's a bit of a "shut up and take my money" situation, really.

Yeah, I'm sorry, but this is on the business. There are business-class services where you will pay to have someone available to talk to you and deal with your data integrity. Facebook is not that.

And this isn't a "hate on Facebook" comment, either. I'd say exactly the same thing if someone set up a business on lemmy.today and then was outraged that the server had data loss and that the server admin wasn't providing personalized human tech support. It's not that lemmy.today is a bad service when used for its intended purpose, but that it'd be an extremely bad decision to make it your business's identity.

If someone has irreplaceable photos (or any other data) that they absolutely cannot lose, sticking their sole copy on some free online service is a really bad decision.

EDIT: Actually, that is kind of a neat advantage of the Fediverse that I'd never really thought about. If there were enough demand, I'm sure that you could get a Threadiverse instance with that level of service for you. I know that there are at least two providers that I've seen that provide managed instance service, and while I don't know what-all they include, and it's probably not the most-extensive level of support, I bet at least backups are in there.

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People don’t convert to a site. That’s the reality. I have one but I’ve seen the numbers.

Even most of those that I deal with that do have a website, don't have a contact form or email address. Just a link to their facebook page and their app, as if everyone in the world has a smartphone and mobile coverage.

Serves them right: Facebook is not the Yellow Pages. Quit treating it like one. Should have been made a rule back in 04' when it was just taking off.