LGBTQ, Black, women and immigrant folks leaving Meta in response is exactly what they want. Attrition of the demographics they want to eliminate from power to reify white male supremacy. This is a social engineering project by the oligarchs to entrench white supremacy.
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2011 to be exact.
I don’t like them owning my data. They are not doing good things with it. I don’t think they ever will.
We don’t need to put ourselves in the line of fire for a matter of principle or proving a point.
They need our engagement to drive their traffic and to show off to advertisers. Exit, and the house of cards topples
Letting these platforms become nothing but white supremacist male circle jerks erodes their value.
The social engineering is convincing people the status quo is inevitable. Meta can go fuck themselves!
I would never trust FB or any other places that have bended the knee in advance to keep sensitive communications private.
Over here in Denmark, twitter only started getting more active Danish posters fairly recently (I don't think it was a reaction to Elon making it a nazi hellscape... Least I hope not.), while Facebook's always been the #1.
People power cannot win when the platform is controlled by a bigot oligarch. Our only power is in the real world where bodies matter.
not be sweet and funny memes, but a lot was accomplished.
Good example: Oskar Schindler.
We are all of us screwed, not just the marginalized groups.
Do I feel safe? No
Can I do anything to feel safer there? No
How much influence do I have to change things from the inside? Practically none
Is my integrity too important to continue being there? Yes
Will I lose much of importance by not being there? Not really
Is retreat sometimes the better option? Yes
Does retreat equal defeat? Not necessarily
One of them is through corruption of authenticity and personal integrity, through use of the illusion of dependency (or co-dependency).
These sites are built on this. Ruled by fear of missing out etc
It's an illusion. I can find other ways to connect with people, or even new people.
Leaving facebook is not easy. But i'm trying to do it.
But I gotta start somewhere I suppose.
People have been throwing money at the likes of Facebook, for years, probably getting a tiny percentage of the advertising, producing any real benefit
That may take a slightly different approach
Advertising: 97%
Reality Labs (VR): 3%
E-commerce/Other: <1%
Meta's advertising revenue has been growing.
Meta's stats for active users may have been growing (doom scrolling once a day is counted).
This does not equate to effectiveness of advertising.
The budgets of the big corporations, might keep growing, the SMEs not
I was left with a seemingly never ending avalanche of individuals and small businesses.
New businesses start, they go onboard with the advertising.
There's a seemingly infinite supply.
We can see that users are prone to disruption, and some will leave, it's likely that many small business would do so, more so than the large ones.
However, the smaller businesses, and individuals spending money, might be a more effective way of hitting Meta.
Temu and Shein among the top advertisers.
Temu spent $2 billion on advertising.
I suspect the majority might come from SMEs and sole traders even.
Next update: 29th January
I think the forecast was for $64.63 billion for 2024
But we are largely not rational (and that's not a bad thing either).
I've got caught in the whole US centric thing.
Most Facebook users, are not in the US.
India has 100 million more users alone than the US.
As a continent, Africa's usage is probably increasing.
They should leave
Their data trails can be used against them online and in real life
I think the plan is to use Facebook to assist in “rounding up” and targeting deportees
FB has your location, known associations, etc
Don’t give ‘em your content
or attention
It drives narcissists insane
Plus, without #creatives sharing their work it’s going to be boring 🥱
Maybe they will just fight each other, Lord of Flies style in the comments?
#DEI content and inclusion is what made #Facebook relevant 💙🏴☠️💙🏴☠️💙
It'll happen to Facebook too. Just watch.
Your friends said stay we’ll figure it out
Soon they’ll be nothing but Nazis on these sites
If the answer is that you personally need that platform to communicate with those people, and you have no other means, that's one thing.
If you consider that you don't feel safe, and your health is most important, and they can manage, that's another
If few people leave, there is more incentive for the rest to stay.
If more people leave, the likelihood is that the people left, will work out an plan to exit the platform, and that is likely to mean being reunited.
It's temporary. People will find a way.
If you want to leave, and you leave, that's probably being more authentic, true to yourself.
I’ve deleted everything Meta
I’ve deleted Twitter
I deleted Amazon
I’ve deleted twitch
I’m here on blue sky
I will also eventually be on discord
I’ve deleted Reddit
We regroup on other platforms
Liberalism has died fascism is here
Resist
It feels like we're being herded. It feels like a trap
Maybe the primary goal is to have safer, more independent, more authentic communities
Staying in a space that fundamentally goes against people's values, is a corruption of integrity and authenticity.
It's probably not healthy.
Mark Zuckerberg is our abuser. Whatever he does he is now in the rear view.
Doesn't have to be this deep, he's just a spineless greedy weasel jackass wanting to be, "cool", suffering from a lighter condition of what musk low IQ ass has.
but it doesn't matter, i hate them with a fierey passion of a trillion suns, the only way i would save either one of them would be a massive payout, i genuinely despise them. Don't give them too much credit tho.
Leave - delete your accounts on Meta immediately or ASAP!
It takes a minute to copy paste the same message that you put everywhere but you’re reaching entirely different different audiences
That is what they should have done the minute Elon Musk bought Twitter.
What finally convinced me to leave was that no company willing to publicly support the T slur's use in public should have access to my data