Bluesky,TikTok,Lemon 8 ,Reddit and Tumblr should form a coalition to put zuck in his place like they did Elon. Buy out MySpace modernize it and develop a new instagram
Oh no, the guy who’s algorithm keeps suggesting the rage bait I have to hide to keep my feed looking slightly sane is finally concerned with the competition?
Lollzz yes he totally trashed the site with mod bots who think a table is too sexy for FB &algorithms that constantly push divisive BS, &newest thing is groups and pages I don’t even belong to, flood my feed.
I barely see my friends posts anymore.
I have no control over my feed, it’s gone to hell
I left Threads within hours of Zuckerberg's visit to the golf motel. Would have been sooner but I was driving to visit family. Last straw after pre-election throttling.
It's a smart move. Orange man has promised a raft of social media laws including requiring an opt out for moderation. If you run a social media company, it makes sense to get a feel for whats down the line for you company, so you can plan around it.
They say apolitical but I watched them throttle left leaning news and videos. You couldn’t get a damn video to play without constantly going black screen but a pro Trump video played just fine. Time and time again it happened.
The only reason I’m even checking other social media sites is to keep up with my friends who haven’t switched yet. And that is extremely periodic at the moment.
What's the point of FB these days? You could build most of its useful tools here.
Add a slightly more image/photo focussed addon, and you'd have something like OG Instagram. This is likely to come soon I think, whether Bluesky build it themselves or not
Facebook is getting worse for trolls and scams these days. There's not enough people on X to troll anymore. I don't engage with them but I really wish they'd all get a life and leave others to theirs.
There’s another platform I’m seeing that has a million users. It was like the original MySpace. I’m thinking about switch from Facebook to there SpaceHey. Anybody have thoughts on this.
I was never on Twitter or Threads. Got tired of Facebook because of the ads and manipulative algorithms. Whoever gives people the power to control their own social media experience wins.
Honestly, I think the biggest thing is just steering clear of the kinds of manipulation that other platforms engage in. It's no secret that FB distorts the world view it shows to suck people in. Twitter also I think is now being looked at as a huge disinformation tool, with more malicious intent.
Too many people/groups in the world are telling people what to think, rather than giving people the means to decide for themselves. And there's a backlash that comes up when people are tired of always being told what they should be thinking
I want to say morning Joe and his wife should never of gone to see trump no one should suck uo. To a convicted felon and rapist and racist liar I hope their ratings go down
Listen you won't believe this there is, a maga supporter who doesn't believe the tariffs are going to cost him. Lot of money and he doesn't believe trump is taking away your social security and your medicare
There show tanked after their visit to Trump 38%I used to watch them on U-Tube they even stopped showing them a few days afterwards, their was overwhelmingly negative responses. They have no creditability, I will never watch them again, they underestimated the intellect of their audience.
Hi David we the people from the UK and Scotland and Ireland and other countries really care about the American people you are not on your own it's not over
🚨the bad bots are here. Many have a simple @ or 🤙 type icon on a single color background, a random first and last name, and numbers as tags.
Please protect yourselves against these threats.
There’s a cool Bluesky feature where you can subscribe to people’s block lists. Not foolproof, but hopefully it will buy some time while Bluesky sorts out a longer term strategy.
I've put together a list of people I've seen mentioned. Go to "About," and then for each user click on "Lists" to see the available options. Keep in mind that different people have different criteria for blocking (perhaps not ones you agree with).
Yes, but people are leaving Twitter/X, not Facebook. FB is adding 400,000 to 500,000 users every day. Z is not sweating Bluesky. Elon Musk might be worried about Bluesky, but right now he has his hands full working with Trump.
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I deleted my Facebook threads and Instagram account. I’m not gonna support anyone who is willing to bow down to oligarchs and who is willing to take away my freedoms in order to better themselves, their friends and their families that’s not the notion of what this country was built on.
We have a dirty history that was out of my control and everyone who’s living today. We weren’t there to help fight against it, however, this will be even dirtier, I will fight against it.
Oh my gosh! I am far from tech savvy but I googled how to download my info. You can download EVERYTHING. They keep info on you from DAY 1! I had been in FB since 2004. You should see how much they follow you. Google it for real. You have to have lots of memory depending on how long you were on it.
I figured that when I had a survey pop up on my Facebook feed this week. Basically the questions had a tone of "what are we doing wrong that makes you want to leave?"
Hopefully, he might learn a lesson. He could start by getting rid of misinformation, hate speech and fraudulent advertising. All of which are achievable.
I joined because it was the only SoMe that appealed to «normal people» that I wanted to get in contact with. You know…people that put their full name and pic on the internet with no hesitation 😬
Thank you for the explanation. In the future remember that although we love and appreciate the information, many of us don’t know these acronyms, so talk to us like we don’t know your field of expertise.
After I heard about the Mar-a-lago visit, I am seriously considering #deleting my profile on #allthemetaplatroms #DoNotComplyInAdvance #NoOneLikesACollaborator
I can just imagine the party when Facebook and X finally collapse! It'll be a celebration of freedom, creativity, and a fresh start in social media. 🥳🍻 P.S. It seems #BlueSky could be a strong contender in the social media landscape.
At this point, Facebook is practically a scam to get businesses (many small businesses), to spend money on advertising that it's incredibly ineffective, irritating, and damages the enjoyment of the site anyway.
Aside from that, it's practically a ghost town much of the time
Right on! I always say FB is the Daily Mail of socials … whilst Insta manages to be even more asinine and pointless. (Except to market to market). I genuinely don’t understand why my grown up kids live on Insta … but eschew fb.
I see that, for me these days, it's a place where a very small section of people who I mostly know or have met, have a profile, but an even smaller proportion of them actually post anything, and with hours or days between posts.
Lots of people I no longer have anything to do with as well
I used to have about 3,000 'friends', because a) I was more politically active on there, and it was more politically active, and b) I was on a particular music scene which hit its peak.
I kept it mostly for music events and then Zuck started wanting to charge the bands for creating events so I rarely see the events posted anymore. No reason for me to be there.
Relative had ‘added’ me to hundreds of FB groups over time, thinking she was ‘assisting’ with medical issues. All it did was clog up timeline with strangers and their weird posts. Deleted account rather than spend days ridding of groups
Oh yes, that whole thing added a lot to disempowering people and going against consent. Facebook groups had a habit of getting way out of hand, and going toxic, or even being allowed to be a place where toxic people gathered
When Your Competitor Blue Sky Promotes—Decency,Truth, Knowledge, Fact Checking And Freedom From Racist And Hate Speech —While Other Websites That Allowed The Destruction Of People’s Lives /Mental Wellbeing- Now Worry They’re Losing Influence/Viewers —We’ve Done Good Job Too People Worldwide!
it took me almost 2 hours to deactivate my account yesterday. And the whole day my $2500 McIntosh and my expensive phone was crashing all day long as soon as I deactivated that account. I have no idea if it's connected to anything just a thought...
If this platform makes the Zuk and TweetBoy nervous, rock on! There’s probably a book or two in the works about how to destroy a social media platform, staring those two boys.
It depends on whether his sense of self is tied to the success of Twitter, or to his vast amounts of wealth. If it is the latter, then you are absolutely right in presuming he'll be fine.
"Everybody is on top once." That has a quote from a man who was the CEO of a now bankrupt company. Zuck not only became comfortable, he became greedy. People grew very tired of his advertising tactics... and the way he collected information on Meta users.
Early on in the days of AOL, I created a region specific room that became quite popular, with several hundred regulars. We had a series of F2F meetups at various localities, with some people traveling over 100 miles.
It was a lot of fun, and things got pretty wild at times.
What's hilarious is the simple recipe to wreck X and Threads.
* Powerful/simple ways to add followers
* Let users build/share groups
* Don't put your thumb on the scale w/ the algorithm
* Effective moderation. Boot Nazis and other wreckers
I think that the Starter Packs in particular are great ways to grow and maintain groups, especially groups that could benefit from having their work shared.
I'm trying to do that for trans people. The QR code generator even makes it easier to make fliers.
Yup! It's a simple, even obvious, idea but just shockingly powerful in execution.
If you know what you're interested in, a few (good, thoughtful) starter packs can make your feed interesting, informative and diverse instantly. It's like magic.
I should've made it more clear I was talking about Threads. When Bluesky was invite only, I left Xitter and created an account on Threads until I finally snagged a Bluesky invite.
I created a feed for Grizz fans. I have list and starter pack. Not perfect but keeps my world here manageable. But still somehow people just miss the very first line of my bio.
Zuckerberg thinks people have no choice but to subscribe to his services. I don’t know about anyone else, but I have a choice. And I choose not to use Facebook, Instagram, or Threads. I’m am not addicted to his social drugs.
Bluesky’s growth shows that people are craving authentic, ad-free, and less manipulative platforms. If it’s spooking Zuckerberg, it’s probably because users are waking up to what they really want from social media. Refreshing, isn’t it? 🦋
Based on a quick search: "As of November 2024, Bluesky has over 20 million active users, with numbers rapidly increasing due to a recent influx of users leaving other platforms like X (formerly Twitter) following the US election".
If Zuck ever joins Bluesky, everybody please spam him with #YWNBARH ("You Will Never Be a Real Human") to remind him that no amount of relatability training or PR makeovers is gonna convince the world he has anything resembling a soul.
Yeah if you give 2 fucks about your like and follow count. Personally I don't care what Mark Zuckerberg is spooked about and neither should anyone else. How does this further the conversation ?
Closed all my accounts with Zuckerberg after one of his platforms released text files between a mother and daughter sending them to prison because she needed an abortion. Zuckerberg’s about coin not people.
Musk is just an untrustworthy zealot like Trump. Left Twitter when Elon purchased it.
I got to the door of Facebook once (because every ad ended with "like us on FB for [free stuff]"), but there was something in the TOS about anything I posted becoming property of Facebook…I turned around and walked away
A friend of mine said there will never be another Twitter or Facebook. This is after I said that these spaces are open.
I said what you need to do is respects people’s privacy, don’t feed people rage bait, don’t have or promote trolls and people will switch… 🤷♂️ i hate being wrong
Oh he's not alone there was a report on Adam mocklers channel the foreign companies are not happy either btw check out Adam's channel and follow here. Twitter was Russian and china's propaganda arm so they a f e trying to react. Block all of them by the way we can keep it out
The reason Trump got elected was because you fail to understand what the majority of Americans think and feel. BlueSky is going to put you at a greater disadvantage. Open your mind, it will help you.
Trump was not elected by a majority, it was by a plurality, his election win was below 50%, do your research.
You see, we @ Bsky don't deal with rumor, inuendo, propaganda, but with facts, which you magats would know nothing about!! Your at a disadvatage, because you cultist don't think at all.
Why do you have to be so pompous and arrogant the who time? My exact point of this thread, is to say that it's exactly this attitude that got Trump elected. It's up to you whether you want to learn from your collective flawed approach.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Knowledge is something you have to thirst for, Cultist, Magats, do not thirst for it, in fact they reject it. Civic awareness, critical thinking skills are desperately needed by all to make informed decisions.
before the election.The Trump voters, voted out of misinformation, disinformation, willfull ignorance,and hate.I have watched numerous interviews of Magats by MTN & CORPORATE MEDIA, everyone rejected the facts, data presented to them by the interviewer.-
I believe in enlightenment,knowledge. So if quoting empirical data, facts, is arrogant and pompous; I shall remain that way. Truth matters, Character matters!! After the election, the most googled request was , what is a tariff?? So access to knowledge is easy today, should have been fact checked
I grew up before the internet, where we had library cards to do research to help enlighten our school experience, which included both Parochial & Public Schools. My favorite Presidential quote by Pres. Jefferson: "An informed citizenry is the best defense against tyrany".
I think the only fact you attempted to use amongst your feelings and insults was about tarrifs being the most googled item......that was obviously all the Dems. Prior to that they were only interested in Hitler and Fascism.
Maybe now is the time to get rid of these leeches for good. If Orange Shitler’s administration goes down in flames due to rampant inflation, he’ll take Elon etc down with him & we can be rid of them for good
Unfortunately these guys are too big to fail. We have to take it from them. We have to unionize to make them pay a fair wage. We have to vote with our pocket books everyday. It’s exhausting going out of your way to avoid dumping your hard earned money into a billionaires lap. But we should all try.
Many like myself not only eXited Twitter we also abandoned threads. Zuckerberg went to Mar A Lardo to bend the knee to king MAGAt, I wonder if they discussed how to strangle the competition.
I am a developer: let's build an ATPROTO layer on bluesky to knock out facebook. The software behind facebook is so completely crap. We could best it within weeks. Import people's graphs, boom, buh bye little marky....
This is not guaranteed to make people want to abandon Facebook. It's highly unlikely to happen. The thing that would destroy Facebook, is advertisers realising they are being scammed and stopping paying Meta
So let's work on that. I was just in the shower thinking the ad economy is a complete failure. But think about how absurd it is that it's a 3 card monty game where VCs have gotten rich selling a con to ad buyers that we have literally zero data on that proves they got their moneys worth.
One of the best takes on the election was from a PBS correspondent who said 'this election showed that whatever sway the media convinced advertisers it still had, it demonstrably doesn't anymore, and it has no other value.'
What could help facilitate this though, is if Meta somehow had to report it's active users differently. So for example, a breakdown of how they are active, might reveal a lot. If most of the active users are just having a quick scroll each day, it becomes less attractive
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Also, seems that threads was a bit of a flop.
I barely see my friends posts anymore.
I have no control over my feed, it’s gone to hell
Let's help make it one for every grifting engagement baiting online advertising hellscape.
Solidarity in the BlueSky.
It’s amusing to receive the spam texts trying to pique my interest on the goings on on facebook, which I delete and report…
Add a slightly more image/photo focussed addon, and you'd have something like OG Instagram. This is likely to come soon I think, whether Bluesky build it themselves or not
https://atproto.com/
I thought its the South African we want to lose..
Like Zuck can’t wrap his head around ppl’s choice to be free without some punk ass wanna-be overlord who tries to control society?
Please protect yourselves against these threats.
My mantis is now following you, face palm kitty!!!
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https://bsky.app/profile/ericmwalker.bsky.social/lists/3lc4kje4uub2b
Sometimes I feel SO untechnical and unimpowered that I’m embarrassed.
But look, an Upside! 👍😁
A person opens Facebook once a day, then scrolls through the feed, then exits
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I am looking forward to the MMA fighter arc.
And then family groups. I only joined because of a family group.
Then Zuck bought it
It started with a desire to make money and nerd creepy follow people
Facebook is dead. #Bluesky was the stake through its heart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments?wprov=sfla1
https://youtu.be/qnVD7WuarSo?si=syPIgp7C7Ey3j0RP
Aside from that, it's practically a ghost town much of the time
Lots of people I no longer have anything to do with as well
Now I have less than 200
Narrator: No you don’t.
A bit concerned about how they’ll stay in business without a revenue stream. But, enjoying the current state of affairs.
Facebook is a mash of a pig's ear and Carlson's IQ
No? Me neither.
It was a lot of fun, and things got pretty wild at times.
Hot tub, anyone? LOL
We take our clicks where we like
Free market baby
* Powerful/simple ways to add followers
* Let users build/share groups
* Don't put your thumb on the scale w/ the algorithm
* Effective moderation. Boot Nazis and other wreckers
Boils down to: Make things easy. Don't be sh*tty.
I'm trying to do that for trans people. The QR code generator even makes it easier to make fliers.
If you know what you're interested in, a few (good, thoughtful) starter packs can make your feed interesting, informative and diverse instantly. It's like magic.
Starter Packs are available on a tab in my profile.
Musk is just an untrustworthy zealot like Trump. Left Twitter when Elon purchased it.
no instagram, no threads
and now, no twitter 🤷🏽♀️
I still believe that Kamala is the leader of the Democrat party
Running for Governor of California would be a good idea, it would add to her executive experience but
American men with their little dick syndrome wont vote for a woman
I hope Harris does run for CA governor. She'd win in a walk.
BlueSky is badass! Not Trump.
I said what you need to do is respects people’s privacy, don’t feed people rage bait, don’t have or promote trolls and people will switch… 🤷♂️ i hate being wrong
You see, we @ Bsky don't deal with rumor, inuendo, propaganda, but with facts, which you magats would know nothing about!! Your at a disadvatage, because you cultist don't think at all.
Weep-worthy 🙁
I liked Threads, but mannnnn, that stuff kinda ruined it for me.
I like this app!