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[–] 87 points 3 weeks ago (21 children)
  • [–] [S] 23 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

    Easier said than done when all your friends and family use WhatsApp and Instagram

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  • [–] 25 points 3 weeks ago

    That's the same issue everyone has/had, including me. You'd be surprised how alright it works to use SMS and phone calls once you get used to it. It's honestly refreshing. You don't have to go that far, necessarily, as there are other messaging services out there that I'm sure your circles find better than SMS.

    Sure, you might miss out on some events and stuff due to others needing to remember that you're no longer on Meta platforms, but just be a little persistent and they'll remember to include you, just like they did me ;-)

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  • I sent everyone a message, roughly "hey I'm moving away from Meta products. From now on you can contact me through SMS or Signal." All the important ones followed me to Signal, not all, but enough. The rest are using SMS or calling, some have stopped contacting completely. Which is sad, sure. But I look at it as they don't think I'm important enough for them to spend 30 seconds installing Signal or using a SMS that is already available for them. So I assume they don't like me very much, which is fine. I don't think about them too much either.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 weeks ago

    I said the same thing then took the plunge a year or so ago. Now the people that I used to keep up with on FB text and interact directly with me more often even than FB and I enjoy it more.. Also don't have to incidentally see all the assholes in the process.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    Have you checked the price of stamps lately? In the US, they are $0.82 now. You should use a carrier pigeon instead. You can even use IPoAC to send an e-mail by pigeon.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    The USPS has gone to shit. I used to order packages, first class, every 3 weeks or so. For my entire life it took 2-3 days, until idk 2018 it crept upwards, by 2021 it was more like 3-5 days, 2025 or so it crept up to 7 or more days.

    It's on purpose obviously. The USPS is mandated in the constitution too, but they want to get rid of it anyway, and the dems haven't done shit to restore it, and yes I know of their performatively throwing money at them during biden's term, which changed nothing.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago

    If the Republicans do get rid of USPS, some (probably red) rural areas will discover they no longer get shipments of any kind. Only USPS is mandated to ship to all far-reaching locations in the US, and commercial services hand their parcels over when delivering the last mile is not profitable.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (5 children)

    Your comment is being scraped by meta rn btw

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    Isn't all of lemmy scraped by AI data crawlers? (They should call them Data Trawlers, after the ocean going monstrosities that drag those massive nets that scrape the bottom and take everything out of the sea.)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    We should all assume so and also assume that our pseudonymity is transparent.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Others have told me on multiple threads, people with credibility as far as I was concerned, that we already know they do, and there is no way to stop it due to the nature of federated social media. Although all the corporate social media can't seem to stop the crawlers either.

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    I heard they're releasing a new brand logo too:

    marvel hydra logo

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  • [–] 14 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    The updated terms explicitly state that Meta can use the content it collects from associated websites to “train” Meta products. Elsewhere in its terms of service, the company defines “AI at Meta” as one of those products.

    I would have assumed they were already doing that.

    Reminds me of why I quit WhatsApp, they started requiring uploading your entire phone address book and I wasn't willing to allow that.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

    What are their IP addresses again?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    Now are they talking about these companies Facebook business profiles that some companies use as their "website " or they talking about going to your actual www.incertnamehere.com allows them to scrim it?

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  • [–] 7 points 3 weeks ago

    You better understand the move to open source office tools when you read about Techbros and demented presidents in action.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 weeks ago

    The interesting wrinkle is that this is effectively a consent laundering scheme. Individual users can't meaningfully opt out of AI training across the ecosystem, and now business accounts 'consent' on behalf of every visitor whose data passes through their sites. The website operator agrees to terms covering content they don't solely own — comments, bylines, photos of third parties.

    Legally the news organizations are in a bind that's worth watching: block Meta's crawler and lose distribution, or allow it and hand over training data to a company building the models that flatten their traffic. The Nieman Lab angle makes sense — for publishers this is choosing between two slow bleeds.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Whoever still uses meta or twitter has no one to complain to about their own fault.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 weeks ago

    Keep enshitifying, Meta, keep going.

    Of course I can say that having mindfully avoided Meta apps for years. Some people are stuck on them because it's what their boss uses.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    i dont use facebook or instagram BUT I have to rely on Whatsapp. My workplace uses it, my family uses it, my friends use it....etc.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago

    Damm. Sorry dumping some rant, my work forces us to use whatsapp, so far my chat is a bunch of numbers didnt give access to contacts. Most of the time idk who is talking to me. I have two pixels with graphene os, 1 for work and my personal. And vpn always on. Also i disable the javascript in Ironfox, ublock chilling in extensions. At this rate im about to euthanize the fam network and block all meta related incoming and outgoin.

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    [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    @informapirata @aitech "Se non paghi il prodotto sei tu!"Ah no, aspetta un attimo...😅

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    @informapirata @aitech 😂 occhio che tra poco ci faranno lo scraping anche nelle mutande!! 😅

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