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[–] 84 points 6 months ago (4 children)

One of them was me. I only used facebook for marketplace. Went to renew my listings one day and it asked me for age ID verification to relist a Pink Floyd boxed set. I then instantly deleted my account.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    lol. I guess the balance is: how much liability will we dissipate with age verification legislation vs. How many marginal users will we lose, vs how normalised will ID become?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    ID circumvention will be mainstream, and by extension so will tech services that don't try and comply with laws. Identity theft fear alone will drive this even among the "I have nothing to hide" crowd. The early adopters will be the under 18 crowd who will universally as a rule need ID circumvention to even use services, and won't forget how

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  • [–] 53 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    20 million out of how many? Fuck Zuck and his cohorts.

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  • [–] 37 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    Roughly 3 000 000 000 monthly users. Fuck Zuck, but there's a still long way to go. So do your part.

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  • [–] 22 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    how many of those are not used accounts, and bots to appear like anyone actually uses trash

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    when I used to use instagram, I had like 5 accounts, so yea, I should probably check again ig I forgo to delete any of the accounts, They shove down the delete button somewhere deep its so hard to find too.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    I always said this about Twitter before I left when Idiot Musk took over.

    I had like 12+ accounts. Hell, I still occasionally come across something and like "ok, I forgot I registered that funny Twitter handle."

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I call bullshit on those numbers.

    And if they are true, I bet it is not a lot of people in western countries. Maybe Southeast Asia and Africa, where they have convinced people that Facebook is the Internet. But most westerners have stopped that shit, and I imagine those are the more valuable numbers for advertisers. So of course they will lie to inflate their numbers to scam advertisers.

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  • [–] 25 points 6 months ago

    Let's get those numbers up! 😁

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    i never had a facebook account or instagram. i am glad people are leaving in droves and sending a message

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    Not nearly enough.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    I have Facebook because it’s the only way to reach some family, but I rarely visit. Thanks for reminding me to uninstall the app.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    Tell everyone you are done with facebook and let grandma know where she has to go to see grandkid pics. She'll figure it out, she wants those pics.

    This is how we break our families of facebook.

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