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[-] ToastySaff@lemmy.world 86 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's getting very Trumpy with the orange tint and pale skin around the eyes.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

His warranty is about to expire

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago

His eyes have always had that going on.

[-] WindyRebel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I swear I’ve seen this one before…

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[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 months ago

I only had to google it because they make it so convoluted to find the delete account button.

[-] hypnicjerk@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago

i'm so tired of nothingburger feel good 'stories' about search trends

this really is just reddit lite

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[-] kipo@lemm.ee 31 points 2 months ago

According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

I wish stories like this wouldn't use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

[-] takeheart@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Yeah,

1 + (1*5000%) = 51

Honestly I prefer just writing "51 times more frequent".

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[-] uberdroog@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago

Super easy, barely an inconvenience. The age of social media needs to die

[-] Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

The age of social media dying is tight!

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[-] Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 2 months ago

Will never happen. Those platforms literally push addiction. It’s why the fediverse won’t ever compete imo - there’s no dopamine hit here of likes, # of friends, send a snap right now (or whatever they are called), streaks, etc.

[-] theangryseal@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I get it. I left Facebook when they changed the feed like a thousand years ago and I haven’t missed it.

My wife is definitely addicted though. She left it for a year, went back just to check in on family after a friend of hers had a baby and she didn’t know about it. She hasn’t put it down since.

She’s a very family oriented person and everyone is on Facebook. Their family is the type to wake up first thing in the morning and start calling each other.

Within minutes of being up, “Ok kids let’s talk to mamaw. Let’s talk to aunty. Now we’re calling great grandma!” Cousins, aunts, uncles, everybody. They’re always talking.

My family is tight like if something goes wrong, but we don’t talk much otherwise. Sister needs help with a bill, someone’s car breaks down, blah blah blah. We can count on each other, just not to talk.

I get why it means so much to her and why it’s been easier for me. I’ll know my cousin had a kid when I bump into her with it at the grocery store. That’s good enough for my people. :p

Edit:

Not that anyone will see this, but we were talking about it tonight and I was dead wrong. She missed her cousins wedding. That’s why she went back, she’s still very sad about it.

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

i agree with what you’re saying and i think we’re mostly on the same page here. i just felt it would be worth saying that, from my perspective, the point of the fediverse isn’t to compete with those websites but instead to be an alternative to them. it’s to offer a picture of what social media can be like without dark patterns, extreme surveillance, and constant enshittification. and there is a really comfort in that. it feels really nice to not have to worry about a website or app getting worse every time i use it.

i also feel like the people on here tend to behave more thoughtfully (in general) than people on reddit and other for profit social media websites. and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was in part due to the absence of dark patterns making lemmy feel more relaxed and less high stakes. there’s also a bit of a small town feeling on this website that i kind of like too.

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[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Once these platforms are perceived as a way for people to make a living somehow, they ain’t leaving. That’s why nice places like mastodon stay niche. Without virality, people don’t see the upside for them. They want a grift they can understand.

[-] Zink@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

That is sounding more and more like a benefit to me. Social media that functions as social media for humans and not just another giant corporate surveillance and marketing machine wearing a fun app costume.

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[-] DocumentingReality@lemmy.cafe 19 points 2 months ago

I posted that article on Mastodon. So, yeah...

I hope more people will find that these open source social media sites are much better run. As well, as a much better platform than Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.

Although, I do miss Myspace. The old platform.

I deactivated my Twitter and Facebook accounts weeks ago. I have my friends and family "moved over" to Friendica. They seem to like it so far. I have even posted (on Friendica) a few links of other open source social sites for them to check out.

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[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

I just need to convince my relatives to use Signal..

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

sell it to them as an alternative to calls + sms that's free when used over wifi. it already uses phone number as id

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[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

he's replacing it with community notes, which is a good thing. the problem i have with Facebook and Instagram is all the useless junk videos that i didn't ask for and it keeps showing me

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 21 points 2 months ago

Community note: this guy smells and is wrong.

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[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Since Facebook market place is the defacto classified now I keep my account around to buy and sell. My feed is full of AI generated images related to anything I search on market place. Right now it is all trucks because I was looking for truck tires.

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[-] Mojimbo54321@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Dropped Facebook completely in 2018 my mental health was much better for it

[-] gubblebumbum@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago

It comes preinstalled in a lot of phones and cant be uninstalled and in some phones they dont preinstall the main fb app instead they'd have something like 'facebook manager' or 'something service' which only shows up in app list when you select the "show system apps" option.

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[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago

that's some glorious schadenfreude

zuck just few hours ago: "people who talk about leaving facebook are just virtue signalling"

[-] Boomkop3@reddthat.com 11 points 2 months ago
[-] Absaroka@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I am now scheduled for deletion.

[-] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

It's silly they don't just delete it instead they make you wait...

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[-] jdeath@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

i worry about (future, AI enhanced) impersonation attempts so I just keep it secure and don’t post anything.

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[-] Eudocimus@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago

I have no clue why anyone takes this seriously or is concerned about this. I have seen maybe three fact-checks during my lifetime on Facebook. That was a long long time ago. I disagreed with two of them and I am not sure if the third one said anything interesting.

Is there a population somewhere I am not aware of, who believes everything they see on Facebook, who will now be ruined by this change?

[-] Baguette@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago

I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They're allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

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[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago

The usual suspects of Gen Boomer and X that first preached to not believe anything on the internet and yet doing exactly that without an external fact check.

Personally for stuff I don't really care, I will always say "Allegedly (...)" before stating something a website says. If the stuff is important (to me or a peer) I might look harder into it.

[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

no fact checking and a ton of bots being added? Sounds like a fantastic place to spend time. /s

[-] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I've never had even a single Facebook account, to explain why it's because the UK police once tried to stitch me up and they kept demanding my Facebook account (presumably to fish) I never had one but they would not let that go.

Once I got representation that line of questioning ended but holy hell did they seem to put a lot of emphasis on my non existent Facebook account.

For the curious I was raided due to an anonymous phone (to the mayor's office) call that claimed I was going to shoot up my workplace or something ridiculous.

My belief is the police wanted to impress the mayor so they just wouldn't let it go despite being nonsense until I paid representation to make them behave.

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