It is fun to pretend, but we all know that it isn’t realistically facing anywhere near that.
It’s going to be one of those “total possible fines are $1.4T, or the company’s entire valuation, but this court believes doing so would not serve the interests of justice and instead fines you $15M, or roughly 36 minutes of operating revenue, and hopes that this firm rebuke finally causes you to take a deep look at your practices and change your ways going forward” things.
By and large, social media has been a terrible mistake. It's helped marginalized communities support one another, yes, but it's also enabled their haters to organize - and some of them are the wealthiest people on the planet.
Good. You amassed your fortune poisoning a generation. Fold it up, and fuck off. Be happy the stochastic terror your platform produces doesn’t end up on your door step. Fucking spiteful loser ass need.
Please disappear into the ether. We don't need it and never did. I'm actually sorry I ever wasted a single, precious second of my life on that toxic ass platform. They are haters to the highest degree and are 100%, A-Ok with people getting bullied to the point of suicide on there, as long as the bully generates revenue.
This is why Kids online safety act, and digital IDs are being pushed/funded by meta. they are the ones that want you to present your ID to your OS before you can even log in.
https://techoversight.org/2025/07/29/bloomberg-meta-google-lobbyists-fight-to">ety/">https://techoversight.org/2025/07/29/bloomberg-meta-google-lobbyists-fight-to-pass-the-buck-on-kids-online-safety/ and https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
There's always the purse snatch. You can rob a bank. Asking a friend is probably the least detrimental. Walking around and hoping somebody dropped a walet or money clip etc is the least likely. You can google class action suit against Meta. If you join one you won't be able to sue Meta ever again. Going Key andd Peel and rob Meta by going there everyday doing some menial task and they give you the money. Or mug somebody.
It really would. Key point here. I have jury duty. I'm stuck on my state's petite jury. I have a full year of this shit, it's not a one and done thing like I grew up believing. The dates and cancelations of jury dates, when we have to go in for cases, are all posted, not to a regular website. Not to calls or texts, or even emails. But are all communicated through a fucking Facebook page. I left Facebook for my mental health several years back, but this shit is forcing me back.
No, it doesn't.. No law or duty can force you to enter into a civil agreement with Meta, i.e. accept their user terms. They have to address you personally or there's no fault on your part for not showing.
I wish. Nah, my state, jurors have to serve for a year. So every case that comes in, you have to assemble with the rest of the pool of jurors, and, if they don't cancel it, you sit with about 100 (we started at 200 and it has whittled down) of your fellows, and they weed down a selection of actual trial jurors from there. Sitting on a case doesn't dismiss you from the potential pool going forward. I don't think other states do this. At least I hope not.
Although I completely agree, users and their information is Meta's most valuable commodity. I wonder who they're going to sell grandma's info to? Can't we just seize his personal shit so he has to get a real job, like as a rodeo clown?
Well yeah, if they wanted to succeed long-term they could have developed a better product. At least, that's what I could say if our society valued actual capitalism in a free society as opposed to this imperial oligarch-worship bullshit...
lemme add: as soon as you click that "erase account" button your email start to get spammed with "someone is using your account but we are unsure it's you. insert this code in this link otherwise ignore this email and dont condivide the code with anyone". If you ignore that link and try to go from the homepage, as soon as you put your credential in you get the message "do you want to abort the erasure of the account?" if you say no, you cant even check the message center to see if they sent it
It depends on where we draw the definition. Github can technically be defined as a social media for example, but that currently sits as a backbone of software development. Hell even imgur can technically be considered a social media and modern imgur is absolutely going downhill, but ye I think we agree that all modern social media algorithmically serving content & ads meant to polarize and engage has proven many times over by now they should rid themselves out of existence ages ago
Turn it into a global digital park, "consumer" owned, chronological personal and neighborhood feeds, and legit publishing small local press only. So many free ads for small businesses and then you have to pay a fee to advertise. And political candidates get the same deal except they cannot buy more ad space or time than the free allotment.
The early Internet already solved all these issues, we just need the platform turned over to the people
90% of what we’ve done with the internet falls into that bucket. Who knew letting rich white dudes build it out and dominate early e-commerce could possibly have led to this?
I think mobile phones would be a tough contender. It's crazy how much of our information is just available for the government to steal, even with laws in place you know they still have it all.
And I have a feeling they use the data they're not supposed to have to look in places they shouldn't know about to put you away if they see you as a problem.
I'd love to hide behind 20 VPNs to make sure they don't get everything, but I love gaming and am super lazy.
I'm going to comment on that. FB itself isn't a cancer, but you have to manage who you let into your circles. It's a garbage in, garbage out scenario. People really don't understand that Social Media can work for you, if you control it. Sadly, there's a vast body of people that are convinced the Tick-tock, Kick and YouTube is a real representation of life
While you are arguably correct the company has its entire bodyweight on the GIGO scales such that you need to fight the algorithm for something approaching a curated experience.
An individual can get a benefit from using the site. But society as a whole experienced the rise of misinformation and political polarization, and the death of a shared sense of ground truth. The individual benefit is why it's hard to leave these sites even for people who recognize the corrosive aspects of their overall existence.
Then it's an invalid premise because people gonna people. Actually it's just addressing a separate subject. How you navigate online spaces is important, and I think it's a problem that younger folk seem to struggle with it. And that's the real negative influence of Facebook; the algorithm tuned to driving engagement making people's online experiences smaller and more homogenous with time. I don't think every site should be 2000's 4chan, but that was a better place than modern Facebook.
Can you imagine finding out you had until the end of the month to get all your photos and content off facebook because then it will be shut down forever? That would be amazing.
Let me premise this by saying I started out with IRC and Usenet, back in the late 80s, like 3-4 years before the www came out; so I've seen it all, or entirely too much. I played with both MySpace & FaceBook. I had troll/ghost accounts using them as a bunch of video archives. I sort saw where it was all headed once YT, Myspace, & FaceBook got all butthurt about pirating (DMCA). I decided this shit's going to be monitoring tools & social engineering/brainwashing. I deleted my accounts in like 09.
Oh man Usenet & IRC takes me back. I've actually been considering going back to usenet lately for all my uhm Linux distro isos, but haven't landed a provider yet. I've been recommended newshosting and nzbgeek but do you perhaps have any recommendations? And yeah almist all platforms which are algorithmically serving content are bound to polarize and monitor and I want nothing to do with it, nor should anyone.
Yeah, I'm prolly the wrong person with which to discuss this, since we ran one of, if not, the largest "P1r4t3," anime stream sites in the world, from 05 to 20. We were ranked top 5 on Goog searches, for like 3 years (I can brag now, since IP crimes have a 5 year statute of limitation). Then in the late 00s, all the "Piracy," nonsense started. We were first Hosted in Texas, practically in the same server farm as FUNifuck. They got a court order, so basically no more hosting in the US. It >>>>
>> doesn't matter what host you find, the trick is, to always have a day, or at most a week, old backup; so when your host or their server fucks you, you don't lose all your shit or have to rebuild from the ground up. ^_- LOL!
That's awesome! Haha yeah backups are a recurring issue throughout my entire life. I have all my shit scattered everywhere, on multiple addresses. I used to keep everything in sync with rsync but it's just turned to a mess over the yrs. Ive been considering going for the 100TB one time fee for Internxt through stacksocial, but I'm not entirely convinced Internxt is surviving atm. Its funny how I didn't pirate almost anything for the last idk 10yrs, only to pick it back up after modern>>
That was a ploy to make artificial scarcity. It used to be specific colleges as well, but as soon as a college got a different social network, surprise, they were magically added to the allowed list for Facebook also
It was created as a network to score the looks of women studying at harvard, it was never really great, just a bit more convenient to stay in touch with folks who moved on from your vincinity
You didnt have it when it first came about, did ye? Is was great for making connections, got to live in Osaka and Manila for years based on folks I met on Facebook. Never experienced whatever you are talking about.
I’ve had a FB since the second year it was opened up to anyone with a college email address. Originally, FB was created to rank the hotness of girls at Harvard.
Once you're in, you never leave. You're just in a Meta lounge crafted by video taken by the VR headset to fool you into thinking that taking the headset off removes you from the meta verse.
That shitter is already broken bud. Think they closed meta verse last year. Bunch of money losers lost "property" bc it now cease to exist iirc. Shits like an NFT and I couldn't care less
The dumbest thing about the MetaVerse I remember was when Snoop Dogg was selling digital real estate next to his digital MetaVerse home, for real fucking money.......
There were years before and leading up to Musk where Twitter was *the* place to get ground truth and objective news. True citizen journalism. Then he bought it and destroyed it. What a loss for humanity.
especially since they aren't happening organically. It's not "this is what people on this topic page are saying", it's "this is what we know you'll interact with on the algorithm even though more than half of it is toxic, eat it". The teen crisis isn't a casual reflection of society, it is intentional business practice.
I liked my funnies. And football. Only bad thing I got was men's mental health sucks - posts but that's me, I am mentally unhealthy. I deleted the app and my account tho, because I started to default there when I had nothing to do.
Doesn’t have to be. It could be trying to maximize ENJOYMENT instead of engagement. Just like AI, the problem has been the evil fuckers’ implementation instead of the tech itself.
kind of. the Matrix sadly had it pretty spot on. Feel good stories and positiveness doesn't get nearly as much interest and engagement as do all the negative things. Personally I attribute it to generational trauma. People being disillusioned with the societies we live in, realising it could be different but it just isn't. Giving up, becoming bitter becomes a widespread norm - even if it's hidden on the outside. Elders pass that on to the young, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. Social >
media and media in general reflects that as it is what people keeps engaged. While positiveness drowns in a sea of "Life is hard/unfair, get used to it" or gets flat out rejected for being "unrealistic"
I don't even want enjoyment. I want 2015 facebook back: obtaining general life updates from people I won't likely run into for another 5 years, so that I can go "oh yeah you had kids how are they doing" when I do. Since fb slowly descended into "here's 1000 posts from pages you haven't shown interest towards and 1 post from one of your friends" there's no reason for anyone to be there. There isn't any platform preforming that service either, so it's just back to awkward catch up conversations
I used it in -18 because my Japanese friends used it to be in touch with us non-Japanese. Although I had LINE and used it with other Japanese peeps and French peeps too. LINE is a great app IMO and it is a she we use WhatsApp instead on the West.
Imalwaysready
It is fun to pretend, but we all know that it isn’t realistically facing anywhere near that.
It’s going to be one of those “total possible fines are $1.4T, or the company’s entire valuation, but this court believes doing so would not serve the interests of justice and instead fines you $15M, or roughly 36 minutes of operating revenue, and hopes that this firm rebuke finally causes you to take a deep look at your practices and change your ways going forward” things.
GratuaCuun
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AnImgurianformerlyknownasfuzzylogic
Im going to download the years of my kids photos I have posted so when Facebook gets shut down I wont lose them.
pleaseuseotherdoor
Downloading all of your content is part of the account deactivation process. It's quick and easy.
Sulanis
Good, it would teach other tech assholes that there needs to be consequences for putting profit ahead of the well being of young people.
pluralone
Or the well being of anyone, really.
SledgeRipley
By and large, social media has been a terrible mistake. It's helped marginalized communities support one another, yes, but it's also enabled their haters to organize - and some of them are the wealthiest people on the planet.
Eyeetsass
Good. You amassed your fortune poisoning a generation. Fold it up, and fuck off. Be happy the stochastic terror your platform produces doesn’t end up on your door step. Fucking spiteful loser ass need.
lightfoot2
oh well
RedTailedHawk
Mxlespxles
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Rynestrm
Delete it all and toss him away.
kaijuuGold
when attention, ads, privacy and social engineering are involved nothing worth a shit to humanity
ThatOtherGirlYouKnow
Huh.
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cyberneticorganism
Helixninja333
Hit every single billionaire with lawsuits like these. No one person should ever have that much money.
AgainstMethod
None of this is aimed at him personally.
gablestout
Hit every billionaire with a lawsuit that they knowingly addicted young kids and teens to social media?
CallMeMcGyver
Why stop at Meta?... toss in X and the two turds running the shit shows as an added bonus.
fierofool
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ADMNtek
KawaiiInari
Please disappear into the ether. We don't need it and never did. I'm actually sorry I ever wasted a single, precious second of my life on that toxic ass platform. They are haters to the highest degree and are 100%, A-Ok with people getting bullied to the point of suicide on there, as long as the bully generates revenue.
Fuck Facebook and Fuck Zuckerberg.
NoodlesDOTExe
Get fucked, Zuccboi.
fierofool
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GiantMoron
What else can the world get rid of, corporation-wise???
wargames
This is why Kids online safety act, and digital IDs are being pushed/funded by meta. they are the ones that want you to present your ID to your OS before you can even log in.
AgainstMethod
I think a lot of this is complicated, but I don't think I'm ever going to do that.
wargames
https://techoversight.org/2025/07/29/bloomberg-meta-google-lobbyists-fight-to">ety/">https://techoversight.org/2025/07/29/bloomberg-meta-google-lobbyists-fight-to-pass-the-buck-on-kids-online-safety/ and https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/reddit-user-uncovers-behind-meta-154717384.html
AgainstMethod
Yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I'm ever going to give my ID to an Operating System for the privilege of using a computer.
flounder35
I’m doing my part. I was part of a class action and took $45 off Meta
Detacheddavid
Pretty sure the lawyers got much more than that.
akafluffy
how does one acquire such power? and/or money :P
flounder35
There's always the purse snatch. You can rob a bank. Asking a friend is probably the least detrimental. Walking around and hoping somebody dropped a walet or money clip etc is the least likely. You can google class action suit against Meta. If you join one you won't be able to sue Meta ever again. Going Key andd Peel and rob Meta by going there everyday doing some menial task and they give you the money. Or mug somebody.
Spiderbubble
They made fifty times that off your data.
flounder35
Those are rookie numbers. You gotta pump those up my person.
Sageypie
It really would. Key point here. I have jury duty. I'm stuck on my state's petite jury. I have a full year of this shit, it's not a one and done thing like I grew up believing. The dates and cancelations of jury dates, when we have to go in for cases, are all posted, not to a regular website. Not to calls or texts, or even emails. But are all communicated through a fucking Facebook page. I left Facebook for my mental health several years back, but this shit is forcing me back.
HunglikeaHamster
No, it doesn't.. No law or duty can force you to enter into a civil agreement with Meta, i.e. accept their user terms. They have to address you personally or there's no fault on your part for not showing.
RealPenguin
Are you a cat?
Kyzyl
/gallery/cat-gets-jury-summons-P4Tz6pA
Sageypie
I wish. Nah, my state, jurors have to serve for a year. So every case that comes in, you have to assemble with the rest of the pool of jurors, and, if they don't cancel it, you sit with about 100 (we started at 200 and it has whittled down) of your fellows, and they weed down a selection of actual trial jurors from there. Sitting on a case doesn't dismiss you from the potential pool going forward. I don't think other states do this. At least I hope not.
FreeSpacePlace
Be a real American and say something to get disqualified.
LordNoKids
I question the accuracy of the source, but I am hopeful
riddmkidd
as well you should. nypost is a crappy source less believable than Fox News
akafluffy
nothing is less believable than faux entertainment (legally distinct from) news.
riddmkidd
good point
gablestout
It's real. Four states are suing over the effects of social media on teens. https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306
smashpro1
Four states are claiming that Facebook misled people about how addictive their websites are. A total of 33 states are involved in the lawsuit.
AgainstMethod
Thay number is if they lost all of the lawsuits, which is unlikely.
Arcadian1
Even a few wins ate better than nothing
spontaneous9
TerribleBot
Pulger
Frankie Boyle joke: If you don't think I'm nosey, why did you write it in your diary?
johnblood616
Also, execute Fuckerberg
satanicblackmagic
slowly. andronikos I komnenos style. tie him up in the hippodrome
usingYourMomAsAHat
Meta/facebook is fucking cancer. Tear it the fuck down already
blueipDriver
Burn it down
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gifworthy
It's literally worthless
blaghart
Meta is so evil it's the primary source of internet for at least one entire continent, a position it then used to facilitate at least two genocides.
malakim
Wouldn't be enough. Social media in general has to go. From instagram to twitter to tumblr and technically also this site.
lildude52ca
Last time i was on FB literally 100% of all of the comments and posts made were all about shitting on trump. so its possible.
1stDrunkJoe
Although I completely agree, users and their information is Meta's most valuable commodity. I wonder who they're going to sell grandma's info to? Can't we just seize his personal shit so he has to get a real job, like as a rodeo clown?
creegro
It's somehow worse than reddit, and is just filled to the brim with misinformation and racist posts from grandma
GlutenFreeCocaineWaffles
Well yeah, if they wanted to succeed long-term they could have developed a better product. At least, that's what I could say if our society valued actual capitalism in a free society as opposed to this imperial oligarch-worship bullshit...
ignotoCiResto
to erase your account you need to wait 30 fucking days.
30
fucking
DAYS!
WTF? An account should be erased immediatly and the data within 3 days!
ignotoCiResto
lemme add: as soon as you click that "erase account" button your email start to get spammed with "someone is using your account but we are unsure it's you. insert this code in this link otherwise ignore this email and dont condivide the code with anyone". If you ignore that link and try to go from the homepage, as soon as you put your credential in you get the message "do you want to abort the erasure of the account?" if you say no, you cant even check the message center to see if they sent it
mynamespaul
Do you think this is true for all social media or do you think some are better than others?
usingYourMomAsAHat
It depends on where we draw the definition. Github can technically be defined as a social media for example, but that currently sits as a backbone of software development. Hell even imgur can technically be considered a social media and modern imgur is absolutely going downhill, but ye I think we agree that all modern social media algorithmically serving content & ads meant to polarize and engage has proven many times over by now they should rid themselves out of existence ages ago
YouRadicalizedMe
Fucking yes!
Soth13
Yep, I'm not getting my family back, no matter how much they pay.and someone else can have them anyway since I now know how shit they are now anyway .
Bladedrummer
Social media
OldNternetWizard43
Turn it into a global digital park, "consumer" owned, chronological personal and neighborhood feeds, and legit publishing small local press only.
So many free ads for small businesses and then you have to pay a fee to advertise. And political candidates get the same deal except they cannot buy more ad space or time than the free allotment.
The early Internet already solved all these issues, we just need the platform turned over to the people
Imalwaysready
90% of what we’ve done with the internet falls into that bucket. Who knew letting rich white dudes build it out and dominate early e-commerce could possibly have led to this?
eatyourmeat
Best intel gathering tool ever made. For companies and the government
unluckyandbored
Which is why the government won't allow it to be shut down.
awkungen42
I dunno why you're being downvoted, you are entirely right.
awkungen42
I think mobile phones would be a tough contender. It's crazy how much of our information is just available for the government to steal, even with laws in place you know they still have it all.
And I have a feeling they use the data they're not supposed to have to look in places they shouldn't know about to put you away if they see you as a problem.
I'd love to hide behind 20 VPNs to make sure they don't get everything, but I love gaming and am super lazy.
JoeT85
I'm going to comment on that. FB itself isn't a cancer, but you have to manage who you let into your circles. It's a garbage in, garbage out scenario. People really don't understand that Social Media can work for you, if you control it. Sadly, there's a vast body of people that are convinced the Tick-tock, Kick and YouTube is a real representation of life
diemajorthrilldie
While you are arguably correct the company has its entire bodyweight on the GIGO scales such that you need to fight the algorithm for something approaching a curated experience.
emertonom
An individual can get a benefit from using the site. But society as a whole experienced the rise of misinformation and political polarization, and the death of a shared sense of ground truth. The individual benefit is why it's hard to leave these sites even for people who recognize the corrosive aspects of their overall existence.
JoeT85
You're right. My premise is based on everyone not reverting to their baser more terrible human instincts.
scrumbles666
Then it's an invalid premise because people gonna people. Actually it's just addressing a separate subject. How you navigate online spaces is important, and I think it's a problem that younger folk seem to struggle with it. And that's the real negative influence of Facebook; the algorithm tuned to driving engagement making people's online experiences smaller and more homogenous with time. I don't think every site should be 2000's 4chan, but that was a better place than modern Facebook.
buttabuttabutt
But then where would my parents do their own research?
Akule
Youtube.
ThrowAwayAcct0000
Can you imagine finding out you had until the end of the month to get all your photos and content off facebook because then it will be shut down forever? That would be amazing.
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
Let me premise this by saying I started out with IRC and Usenet, back in the late 80s, like 3-4 years before the www came out; so I've seen it all, or entirely too much. I played with both MySpace & FaceBook. I had troll/ghost accounts using them as a bunch of video archives. I sort saw where it was all headed once YT, Myspace, & FaceBook got all butthurt about pirating (DMCA). I decided this shit's going to be monitoring tools & social engineering/brainwashing. I deleted my accounts in like 09.
usingYourMomAsAHat
Oh man Usenet & IRC takes me back. I've actually been considering going back to usenet lately for all my uhm Linux distro isos, but haven't landed a provider yet. I've been recommended newshosting and nzbgeek but do you perhaps have any recommendations? And yeah almist all platforms which are algorithmically serving content are bound to polarize and monitor and I want nothing to do with it, nor should anyone.
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
Yeah, I'm prolly the wrong person with which to discuss this, since we ran one of, if not, the largest "P1r4t3," anime stream sites in the world, from 05 to 20. We were ranked top 5 on Goog searches, for like 3 years (I can brag now, since IP crimes have a 5 year statute of limitation). Then in the late 00s, all the "Piracy," nonsense started. We were first Hosted in Texas, practically in the same server farm as FUNifuck. They got a court order, so basically no more hosting in the US. It >>>>
ObjectivePragmatistWithHope
>> doesn't matter what host you find, the trick is, to always have a day, or at most a week, old backup; so when your host or their server fucks you, you don't lose all your shit or have to rebuild from the ground up. ^_- LOL!
usingYourMomAsAHat
That's awesome! Haha yeah backups are a recurring issue throughout my entire life. I have all my shit scattered everywhere, on multiple addresses. I used to keep everything in sync with rsync but it's just turned to a mess over the yrs. Ive been considering going for the 100TB one time fee for Internxt through stacksocial, but I'm not entirely convinced Internxt is surviving atm. Its funny how I didn't pirate almost anything for the last idk 10yrs, only to pick it back up after modern>>
reineseele
Aren't these the places which exist only for right winged nutjobs and bots spewing nonesense?
TexMexHex
It was great when you needed a college email to join. Then the uneducated pieces of shit took over.
GlutenFreeCocaineWaffles
[Laughs in Eternal September.] Hey, I've seen this one before! It's a re-run!
slopwizard
That was a ploy to make artificial scarcity. It used to be specific colleges as well, but as soon as a college got a different social network, surprise, they were magically added to the allowed list for Facebook also
WhoDoesntLikeTacos
I think you just wrote the story of the entire history of internet with that last sentence.
astrangehop
#EternalSeptember
Comet260
Zuck was ALWAYS a creep.
Marsupialmessiah
It was created as a network to score the looks of women studying at harvard, it was never really great, just a bit more convenient to stay in touch with folks who moved on from your vincinity
TexMexHex
You didnt have it when it first came about, did ye? Is was great for making connections, got to live in Osaka and Manila for years based on folks I met on Facebook. Never experienced whatever you are talking about.
Marsupialmessiah
Thats what i said.... "more convenient tobstay in touch with folks that moved on"..... btw the dv wasnt me
BorkSamson
It was me. I always downvote people who believe THEIR EXPERIENCE is the only valid one.
LeoFloof
I’ve had a FB since the second year it was opened up to anyone with a college email address. Originally, FB was created to rank the hotness of girls at Harvard.
But trust him, bro. It was ‘just a prank.’
https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a19746346/mark-zuckerberg-testifying-congress-facesmash-facebook/
Marsupialmessiah
Thank you
00110001001110010011100000110100
But think about the people in the Meta verse. Are they going to be trapped?
CaldariBob
Everything will slowly lose colour as they slowly turn off the power, then everything just goes black.
Ifekinlovesauerkraut
There are no people there, only bots.
theinternetkeepsmealive
They made their bed...
BishlamekGurpgork
Once you're in, you never leave. You're just in a Meta lounge crafted by video taken by the VR headset to fool you into thinking that taking the headset off removes you from the meta verse.
EggFooYung
They can't log out until someone beats the the last boss, King Zuck.
supervillin
Have to wait for the Meta chorus to find out.
eadanke
If they haven't left already, then they already are.
MadamPuddifoot
Here's hoping!
chunguswangus
Dear god let's hope so
philmoregraves
That shitter is already broken bud. Think they closed meta verse last year. Bunch of money losers lost "property" bc it now cease to exist iirc. Shits like an NFT and I couldn't care less
brcpo9
https://archive.is/vE4cn
Sonicschilidogs
The dumbest thing about the MetaVerse I remember was when Snoop Dogg was selling digital real estate next to his digital MetaVerse home, for real fucking money.......
philmoregraves
I dont like Kool aid enough
ADMNtek
It hurts to have to sacrifice those 3 people, but it is for the greater good.
samanthadlcruz
Did they ever grow legs?
MipMop
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nonickname23
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
Crusty Jugglers
nonickname23
Whatdoyousaytoanicecupoftea
SWAN!
BenderSaysNeat
I agree with Sonia. I believe that social media of the Facebook and Twitter varieties have been net negatives for society.
Swedishbouldering
Which are good?
Lovingimpaler
They are propaganda pipelines and broker data mines. They should be shut down as a matter of national security.
YouRadicalizedMe
Extremely negative!!!
Lucabibble
Their was a short window before Musk took over where Twitter had a much more neutral effect, in the doing equal amounts of good as bad sense
CatJumper
There were years before and leading up to Musk where Twitter was *the* place to get ground truth and objective news. True citizen journalism. Then he bought it and destroyed it. What a loss for humanity.
SavageDrums
Enshittification hit them hard. Very intentionally.
WillemHellfire
Might as well throw in Threads while we're at it.
Groose
Same as Instagram and tiktoc
SarcasticComment
especially since they aren't happening organically. It's not "this is what people on this topic page are saying", it's "this is what we know you'll interact with on the algorithm even though more than half of it is toxic, eat it". The teen crisis isn't a casual reflection of society, it is intentional business practice.
Ivain
Exactly, they're actively driving it. Their algorithms aren't designed to actually promote your interests, they're designed to push
Cycocidal
Imo, it really started taking a dive when we stopped seeing only the stuff we choose to follow and friends posts.
GentryFriedRichFillets
I remember reading about the social experiments they would do to see if they could affect people's moods by controlling what they showed them.
This sort of manipulation wasn't just a "happy accident" in terms of business. It was calculated, studied, and applied.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_emotional_manipulation_experiment
MauroMolinero
Intagram is a fucking cancer don't forget about them
Haemaelaeinen
I liked my funnies. And football. Only bad thing I got was men's mental health sucks - posts but that's me, I am mentally unhealthy. I deleted the app and my account tho, because I started to default there when I had nothing to do.
thedill2000
Hipstergram is part of Meta
OddlyPacific
Threads is a 24 hour misinformation machine
MauroMolinero
and worse too
manhands
Doesn’t have to be. It could be trying to maximize ENJOYMENT instead of engagement. Just like AI, the problem has been the evil fuckers’ implementation instead of the tech itself.
dreikommavierzehn
kind of. the Matrix sadly had it pretty spot on. Feel good stories and positiveness doesn't get nearly as much interest and engagement as do all the negative things.
Personally I attribute it to generational trauma. People being disillusioned with the societies we live in, realising it could be different but it just isn't. Giving up, becoming bitter becomes a widespread norm - even if it's hidden on the outside. Elders pass that on to the young, it becomes a self-fullfilling prophecy. Social >
dreikommavierzehn
media and media in general reflects that as it is what people keeps engaged. While positiveness drowns in a sea of "Life is hard/unfair, get used to it" or gets flat out rejected for being "unrealistic"
bridgebrain
I don't even want enjoyment. I want 2015 facebook back: obtaining general life updates from people I won't likely run into for another 5 years, so that I can go "oh yeah you had kids how are they doing" when I do. Since fb slowly descended into "here's 1000 posts from pages you haven't shown interest towards and 1 post from one of your friends" there's no reason for anyone to be there. There isn't any platform preforming that service either, so it's just back to awkward catch up conversations
Haemaelaeinen
I used it in -18 because my Japanese friends used it to be in touch with us non-Japanese. Although I had LINE and used it with other Japanese peeps and French peeps too. LINE is a great app IMO and it is a she we use WhatsApp instead on the West.