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Another one of the kids has been kicked off social media. This time my nephew, from Facebook for "violating community standards."

What did he do? No one knows. He just got cut off. Profile vanished. No details given.

My niece is "shadown banned" on X, meaning she doesn't come up if you type her username.

What's big tech's problem with Gen Z?

I have no idea what my nephew posted, probably some gaming stuff. My niece posts her political views, which I'm sure are contrary to that of Elon Musk.

Imagine givine a shit what someone thinks to the point you hide their speech? Why must big tech have such control over some random kid's opinions about politics or video games or whatever? Why can't my kids express themselves freely online? They can't, unless they are here.

Then there's a friend who's a retiree, who loves TikTok. But she doesn't want to get banned, so she won't allow followers she doesn't know or risk "getting tattled on."

Rather than jump ship to Nostr, I am seeing folks change THEIR behaviors so as not to lose access to their beloved social media.

"Just don't allow new followers"

"Oh but you can appeal"

"Just create a new account"

"Just wait out facebook jail"

"Just don't post phrases like 'suicide' or other 'dangerous' content—as if posting the word alone is a sin or threat" 🙄 The act of watering down speech to stupidisms like "un-alive" is self-censorship. If I want to post about how I lost a dear friend to suicide and that men's health matters, I can say that here. At least.

Don't self-censor.

Stop putting up with this.

We have Nostr.

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Chip 4mo ago

They are getting identified and kicked off before they have an established following. The model is transitioning from reactive to preemptive. Terrifying

mar 4mo ago

That's what Facebook is like. Almost everyone I know still uses Facebook but they don't post anything in fear of getting banned. They just scroll through the funny vidoes and memes and use it for mostly messenger and the marketplace. Facebook still has a lot of power.

I think the biggest downside with Nostr is the fact that there is no friend requests. I don't want random people interacting with my profile. As we see already there is many automated bots interacting with our profiles. Facebook doesn't have this issue. Nostr will eventually turn to shit like X unless we have a friend request system. Not everyone wants to be a public figure.

MAKE SONGS LONGER 4mo ago

You can mute people though. But a "closed community" option would prob solve what you're talking about.

FB is absolutely useless. Marketplace terrifies me; I'm not gonna meet a stranger to sell a toaster. I would rather give it away rather than end up in some basement, lol, or worse, have my time wasted by someone who isn't sure they want to buy a toaster, or can I send them 12 more pictures of said toaster, and can I send them the toaster's measurements?

Where facebook wins is it is a human directory, it's been around a long time, and so everyone is on it. Your chance is selling the toaster is better. Your chance of finding your perfect, pink, 7" tall toaster is also better. 🙄 🤷‍♀️

The self-censoring has become innate now behaviorially, you know you "go to jail" for saying things like "white people" or "suicide" or anything "mean," even if joking. Even if you are a "white people," as I am. 🙄

I still have it because it is a way to keep in touch with most people I've kown for 20 years because it's been around that long.

I recently had an experience where it started feeding me ads for something I'd never want based on an offline conversation my phone must have picked up while I was at someone else's home. Did keywords from that talk become targeted ads? Absolutely! In a terrifying, Minority Report kind of way.

So that MFer is off my phone as well as Instagram with its creepy ass "Maps" tracker. ICYMI, Instagram launched a location tracker the other day with dubious settings. Was my location shared? I am terrified. Fuck that.

No. More. Meta.

mar 4mo ago

Muting is not a good solution because they you spend your whole day muting accounts. Eventually like X, the bots are just too many to keep muting.

The toaster story is not Facebook's fault. That's the life is selling things. It's a terrible job because fiat people have major issues.

Facebook won because of the features. It has some of the most amazing features to connect others and make networks.

I remember exactly how Facebook started. Exactly like Noatr. Everyone just started adding random people to get the ball rolling and eventually as everyone else joined. The majority of people just followed family, friends, co-workers etc. There was never any issue of spam because of the friend request issue.

Nostr is more like X, where anyone can interact with you which causes spam.

Yes. You are right. Facebook and most app listen to keywords you type or say and then they use that push ads on you. I've said I wanted to eat chicken many times and eventually a minute later KFC ads popup.

Facebook sucks because it's centralized but we can't ignore the features. The features is what made Facebook the king and still currently the king as it's used by billions.

I would rather give away my toaster too then deal with fiat people.

Dune Messias 4mo ago

Jeez

b7c7f5d3... 4mo ago

Well said

𝕯𝖊𝖗 𝕲𝖊𝖎𝖘𝖙 4mo ago

Nothing has changed in the lame social media circles.

The communists were shocked stupid with Trump's return but now recovered and plunging forward with their plans.

MAKE SONGS LONGER 4mo ago

I feel like Zuck, being friends with Trump, is even more compromised. There is no big tech leader not compromised with bias to shareholders. There is no president who won't try and bend speech to their will by conrolling platforms and bumping up their own propaganda.

atyh 4mo ago

the normalization of, and training to accept State censorship.

Progressive frog boiling.

MAKE SONGS LONGER 4mo ago

Totally 💯 the masses believe without thinking at all that rights and privileges are bewstowed upon them rather than inherent... then again, folks act pretty entitled about certain, less important things, so who knows 🤷