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MeetInPotatoes ,

CMV: The people who want to receive data from Threads should just…make a freaking Threads account. The whole argument to connect with them at all is weird. It’s like recording a Disney movie to your DVR box and setting up streaming from your smart TV to your tablet so you can now enjoy the movie you recorded in bed…when you could’ve just downloaded the freaking Disney+ app.

It’s also (somehow) like when you’re already in shorts and a t-shirt but still a little warm and someone else wants to turn the A/C off cause they’re cold. They can put on more clothes and be totally comfy, I cannot (politely) take any more clothes off.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Don’t forget to bring a towel!

MeetInPotatoes ,

It’s a conspiracy just in the sense that they are seemingly counting these towards their growth numbers. If they’re saying they have 20 million accounts, but they created 3/4 of them as placeholders, then no…they have 5 million accounts.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Reddit was where we were when we were younger tech nerds, so…yeah man.

MeetInPotatoes ,

“Break the loop and you break the chains.”

Nobody actually said that to my knowledge but putting quotes around it lends some legitimacy. 

MeetInPotatoes ,

Only replies to the original post will ever be at the top.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Agreed about influencers. Meta wouldn’t be doing this at all if they didn’t have a plan (or multiple plans) to monetize it. The whole reason I left Reddit and plan to leave Twitter was that I very much dislike having any part of my online enjoyment at the mercy of the whims of gigantic corporate assholes that think they are far more important than they are. Meta has been an awful and abusive actor in the tech world, why would any freedom-loving person want anything to do with them in a freedom-loving space?! Why would anyone just wait and see what they do this time to decide they’re an awful company with only their profits in mind and no qualms about making those profits at a cost to its users?!

MeetInPotatoes ,

Or they type fast and have a lot to say /shrug

MeetInPotatoes ,

Same, I was only donating $2 a month but I’m not alone in finding this completely unacceptable. I applied at lemmy.ml. It’s the scorpion and the frog with these people suggesting we should just wait and see.

“~Let’s see if Zuck doesn’t act like an anti-competitive asshole this time” <–where the hell is the logic in that?!

MeetInPotatoes ,

Facebook doesn’t give a shit about its users and treats them and their data as a crop to harvest. On Meta platforms, you’re the product. On the fediverse, you’re just another user, free to do what you want. Disgust is indeed an emotion, and I’m 100% fine with being disgusted with Meta.

MeetInPotatoes ,

It’s almost like some people crave enshitification.

“Hey this decentralized stuff is really cool, let’s connect with the most gigantic corporate assholes who would absolutely centralize all of it if they could…you know, so we can grow! What could go wrong?”

LIke…what?

MeetInPotatoes ,

It’s the scorpion and the frog, completely.

“Oh, man…who would’ve thought that the people who want to monetize everything and dominate any market they get into would not just be our friends this time?”

MeetInPotatoes ,

Yeah, all these delusional people who know that Meta has earned its bad reputation. 🙄

MeetInPotatoes ,

For real, this troll is honestly trying to argue that Meta being a hostile company isn’t common knowledge.

MeetInPotatoes ,

There were 4 questions and one of them was 6 minus 2. It was easier than convincing recaptcha that I’m not a robot.

Fuck you, recaptcha, there was definitely a motorcycle in that pic :)

MeetInPotatoes ,

It’s the same guy that’s being a trollish asshole up and down this post. Only their posts have been removed, and only their posts are catching a 6:1 or higher downvote-to-upvote ratio. Seems like they’re on somebody’s payroll honestly.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Facebook is known for analyzing your contact list and trying to get as much data as they can on those people as well. You don’t have to make life easier for face-eating leopards.

MeetInPotatoes ,

This thread is full of children who think that because they don’t like something then neither should anyone else.

This is exactly you. You don’t like the idea of blocking Facebook and are being combative and douchey to anyone who disagrees. Your dislikes are in the toilet and you are as free to leave .world as anyone else.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

MeetInPotatoes ,

I didn’t even know I was one of those 30 million users until you and others mentioned that people with Instagram accounts automatically have one.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Bad analogy, it would be like meeting up with all your ex-girlfriend’s other former partners and all bitching about that shared ex because you have that thing in common.

MeetInPotatoes ,

You’re right in that the analogy is way off. Here’s the only way it would make it right, is if your new date also wanted to vent about your ex. That’s probably not the case. But being a Reddit refugee is something in common for many people on Lemmy (especially right now) and so it makes perfect sense for people to talk about it.

Also, I don’t give much thought to the posts I scroll past…

MeetInPotatoes ,

I apologize and I wouldn’t want that either lol. That thought is scary and that meeting would end up with them talking about how to hide my body.

MeetInPotatoes ,

That’s not why at all. Watch the video @danielton posted below.

MeetInPotatoes ,

A single character emoji could easily be a typo as well.

MeetInPotatoes ,

What makes ours ethical and their unethical??

Their actual history. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

MeetInPotatoes ,

They of course have no interest in growing the fediverse as an independent alternative, they want to use it for their own ends. They want to serve people the fediverse’s free content under its own umbrella and rules to monetize stuff that doesn’t belong to them, or anyone else. It’s all pretty straightforward greed and capitalizing on an opportunity.

MeetInPotatoes ,

It’s not just one behavior, it’s a continuous pattern of behavior. If you want to give them a clean slate in every new instance, that’s your choice. At some point it’s the scorpion and the frog. Whether you consider it an ethical argument or not, it’s basic common sense that Meta’s pattern of behavior will continue absent any evidence to the contrary.

And ad hominem is an argument against a person, not a company. My argument is citing their past behavior which would not be an ad hominem argument even if I’d cited Zuckerberg specifically. “Because Zuck is greedy.” would be ad hominem.

MeetInPotatoes ,

6 Catholics overturned Roe too. Catholics only represent 23% of the population and tend to have much stricter views on abortion than Jewish and Hindu folks for instance. Maybe we shouldn’t let 6 people from the same freaking religion decide anything with religious overtones. But if we do, and in the case of abortion…maybe it shouldn’t be the people that think Jesus got magically beamed into Mary’s womb from orbit.

MeetInPotatoes ,

The doomscroll is all there is. The good news about that is that anyone can emulate it.

MeetInPotatoes ,

It doesn’t need to replace anything, that’s a sports mentality applied to the free flow of information. What this decade has taught us is that the doomscroll is all there is. Reddit, Tiktok, Twitter, etc. all have constant scrolling through content as their main feature. It’s a feature that’s extremely reproducible. What the fediverse does is take power away from the corporations that want to make money off of the flow of user-created content. By the fediverse’s existence, whenever some company wants to rate-limit or ban 3rd party apps, the people can now just say: “Nah.”

MeetInPotatoes ,

What got replaced already was the oligopoly on user-created content. That’s all that matters.

MeetInPotatoes ,

I mean lemmyshitposts on Lemmy.world is where I’m seeing the most but I’m new here and don’t really know how to write that out.

MeetInPotatoes ,

I deleted my Reddit account on July 1st as well. Their distain for the people that provide them free labor was disgusting.

MeetInPotatoes ,

I used this site when migrating sub.rehab

Shows where old Reddit subs relocated to or branched out to.

MeetInPotatoes ,

Let’s not be so quick to rush to judgment there, eh?

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