Post AqsvpSWMi8m7oo9BdA by OGjester@stranger.social
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(DIR) Post #AqsvORGrFc7C7f0ePY by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T19:29:28Z
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I'm using facebook for one more month. Facebook simply will not show you the things the people you follow post. For example, an old school friend posted a photo of a frog on his front door. Just what I want to see on social media! "look at this frog!" perfect content A++Facebook hid it. My feed is full of other random stuff. So, now I just click on "friends" and look individually at what everyone has posted. Much more enjoyable. If I were going to stay I'd write a script to automate this.
(DIR) Post #AqsvY2HT1D8nVqs2T2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T19:31:12Z
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Now... đ what might be worth automating is some kind of script that would show people what facebook is HIDING from them from the people they love and care about most. It'd be annoying to program, and if it got any traction easy for facebook to foil ...yet, still, if only people knew all the wonderful things they are missing.
(DIR) Post #AqsvpSWMi8m7oo9BdA by OGjester@stranger.social
2025-02-07T19:34:09Z
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@futurebird I deleted my account. I hadnât been on there in two years, but I signed back in to try to sell a few things on marketplace, and⌠wow. What an absolute pile up of random ads, posts from people Iâve never met, and just a mess of uninteresting garbage. I canât believe anyone is still on there, but I suppose itâs the whole frogs in the boiling pot thing. Zuckerberg is now happily and openly nazi-adjacent, so that should be a red flag for most people.
(DIR) Post #AqswSlCRCLrF2iZBPU by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2025-02-07T19:41:26Z
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@futurebird That place is a tangled warren of random non-chronological posts and ads, the algorithm is directly responsible for brainwashing people and causing genocides (like in Myanmar), and Meta in general is the very definition of "Embrace, Enhance, Extinguish." The world would be better off without both Meta and Fuckerberg in it.
(DIR) Post #Aqswb92qQT9vJY4reS by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T19:42:51Z
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@apophis Oh yeah, I remember using that when they first broke the reverse chron feature. I will give it a shot, it may make this month of suffering more bearable. Basically I'm being an active user for a month so I can let everyone know exactly where I went when I leave again. There are a lot of good people on there. And some nice communities, it helps me to understand why people won't leave. But also it horrible. I just can't deal.
(DIR) Post #AqswfYwG5yhGmT6TQW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T19:43:43Z
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@drakenblackknight I agree, but I don't see how to get people out of there without talking to them for at least a bit and leaving them a signpost of where to go.
(DIR) Post #AqsxWdcXQ1NQeKBh5s by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2025-02-07T19:53:20Z
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@futurebird Louis Rossmann had a video up about why to use adblockers and how to get more people to use them (YouTube probably took it down because it's YouTube) and his method to get people to use them is pretty apt. Basically, I'll start going "Oh, you're not seeing a coherent timeline? I don't have that problem because the socials I'm on don't have algorithms" and turn back to your own stuff, turning back to that someone if they ask what socials those are.
(DIR) Post #Aqt5MTawde4GID6kam by BunRab@mstdn.social
2025-02-07T21:21:06Z
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@futurebird @drakenblackknight There's still some functionality it offer that no one else has - mainly groups. The Heart Transplant Support Group I'm one of the mods for - lets several thousand people talk to eachother about this specific topic; it's a private group with moderated admission, so its page doesn't get anything else except member posts. It's got file space for shared documents. No one else has anything like that that is as accessible and easy to find.
(DIR) Post #Aqt5yAmR2UrawbSQSW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T21:27:59Z
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@BunRab @drakenblackknightI have often seen people asking about fediverse "groups" and it would be nice if there were some kind of extension servers could choose to run that would work like groups. That said, managing and running private groups online can be a thankless tasks. That facebook has people moderating such groups for free is kind upsetting because THAT is real work.
(DIR) Post #Aqt62FV9QaMkkGJh8y by drakenblackknight@mastodon.online
2025-02-07T21:28:41Z
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@futurebird @BunRab There is Friendica but I haven't been able to get it to work right with me.
(DIR) Post #Aqt6HwOkDmNg89nokC by aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social
2025-02-07T21:31:27Z
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@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight I think each decentralized, federated server is essentially a group. It would be nice if we could have an identity that could grab a server membership or a dozen, rather than having to move shit between servers when we get antsy.
(DIR) Post #Aqt6pz3opQxgEZFPhw by BatSara@m.ai6yr.org
2025-02-07T21:37:33Z
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@futurebird I recommend Facebook Purity to clear out the ads and get a reverse chronological feed showing only posts by friends.
(DIR) Post #Aqt83QI308KoP4sJiS by Moss@beige.party
2025-02-07T21:51:19Z
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@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-on-the-fediverse/
(DIR) Post #Aqt8FEjfmnNG2jQiP2 by Vive_Levant@masto.bike
2025-02-07T21:53:23Z
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@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight they donât manage it for free. They manage it at the cost of all the data the users give them in exchange and thatâs extremely valuable.
(DIR) Post #Aqt8guphNToMQLRl2G by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T21:58:28Z
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@Vive_Levant @BunRab @drakenblackknight I was speaking about how the mods are not paid by facebook. But this is also true.
(DIR) Post #AqtANItiOaZbAz6Lpo by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
2025-02-07T22:17:15Z
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@futurebird When you say âindividuallyâ do you mean checking up on friend A, then friend B, âŚ? Kind of like checking on blogs without the use of an RSS reader?
(DIR) Post #AqtAbXk00OSrGYLYmW by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-02-07T22:19:55Z
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@babelcarp Yup.But I don't follow many people. It's literally just like 80 people and most of them aren't posting anything. This is a concentrated pressure campaign.
(DIR) Post #AqtB0UyhPmQJw87dyK by doctormo@floss.social
2025-02-07T22:24:23Z
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@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight Decentralised groups would be easy to code. It would just be a relay account service.I just don't have the logo.
(DIR) Post #AqtB1yO1YnkfR1fea0 by Vive_Levant@masto.bike
2025-02-07T22:24:36Z
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@futurebird @BunRab @drakenblackknight my bad, thatâs even worse.
(DIR) Post #AqtHDNOzUbpxvhwZpQ by sbourne@mastodon.social
2025-02-07T23:33:53Z
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@futurebird There used to be a way to do this, but I left so long ago I don't remember what it was. Mark everybody as "family" and then see a list of just "family" - or something like that? They probably turned it offâŚ
(DIR) Post #AqtaxjXVPv2f2NkF3A by xdydx@mastodon.social
2025-02-08T03:13:10Z
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@futurebird @drakenblackknight You can't leave a sign, if Facebook won't show it to them, and your own experience proves this to be true. Do you think all your friends are doing what you're doing and clicking on friends to have a worthwhile site visit? ⢠Create a leaving event - that will get pushed to them.⢠create a group chat.⢠delete all your photos⢠unfriend your friends, slowly⢠delete the account at the time of the leaving event
(DIR) Post #AqtvK9wxty4UP1clKi by BunRab@mstdn.social
2025-02-08T06:12:54Z
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@futurebird @Vive_Levant @drakenblackknight But on the other hand, way back in the early 90s I was a volunteer forum host on AOL, and years later someone filed a class action claimimg the terms under which hosts operated made us employees so we should have been paid - and won! So maybe 12, 13 years later I got a check for over a grand. It can happen!