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All platforms are just becoming censorship hellholes for the owners.
One more reason the leave this digital sh*thole - if empathy is going to be restricted, it is simply not wanted on these platforms... 😔
"We use technology or a review team to identify content that should be covered," a notice obscuring the post reads. "This post doesn't go against our Community Standards, but may contain images that some people might find upsetting."
Yeah, I bet.
"What the f**k, Instagram?" a Bluesky user wrote.
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Yeah, everyone should stop using Instagram, Facebook, threads, reddit, tik tok. But the FOMO is too strong. It's too bad, if they did it would fix most of their problems in like a week.
Exactly.
Okay, now do religion.
Everyone should stop going to churches, synagogues, mosques, the church of latter day saints, and scientology. But the FOMO and fear of eternal damnation is too strong. It's too bad, if they could just realize that everything is god including themselves, they could live happier more fulfilling lives in like a week.
People don't really go to services for god or salvation, they do it for community.
100 percent true. After many long years of observation and philosophical debates with myself, this was the logical conclusion I came to.
Most of those who visit th se "holy places" do so for the community and rarely for any actual religious reason.
Alright, the only way we can defeat religion is with cookouts and community events
It won't work. Everything gets monetized and marketed till it's soulless and drug-like.
Everything...
much more likely than with logical debates online, I'd say
My wife is very progressive and believes in human rights. Her Facebook feed went conservative about a week ago now with constant right wing propaganda.
She's not very progressive if she uses Facebook.
FB has been normally Right wing propaganda arm for ru, for like a decade. i think they might have ramped it up. plus AI bots are probably running the site anyways.
Big tech has gone full fascist for a bit now
With literally no tech opposition from the left
That's what happens when you sukk the zukk
It’s time for Pixelfed!
Classic
Welcome to China.
Facebook is a privately owned company that is responsible for their own actions.
When will we get over the corpo social media
I asked that before it started.
Here we are.
Instagram is Facebook so no surprise there.
facebook= propaganda arm of russia in the US for boomers, and a site filled with bots.
You mean the app that's run by a fascist and that promotes genocide? I'm shocked. SHOCKER!!! \s
(Seriously use Pixelfed instead, even if only partially for support.)
Pixelfed is dead just like mastadon . Loops was the only hope but someone on dbzero said loops is also fucked
By that same logic, Lemmy is dead, so what are you doing here?
No it's not . You replied people reply is the proof but on pixelfed their are no replies. Dead area
So.. If you think that wonder what you could do about it? If only there was somewhat to get involved and make a difference....
mastodon isn't dead.
Ofcourse it has users but no replies make it dead
Meta sucks
So what are you all going to do about it?
Continue to not use Facebook/Instagram.
I switched to Lemmy when Reddit came out in support of people who abuse children. I don't even mean Trump, I just mean in general. I suggested abusers in general should face harsher penalties. They banned me for it. I said "holy shit you just did me a huge favor, apparently I was on the wrong site because our values are 100% incompatible."
I mean, there isn't even a debate. I'm not talking about people who find themselves attracted to kids. I'm talking about people who actually went out and hurt a real child facing longer, more meaningful sentences and they said nah, those people are people and need to be protected.
I've moved social networks on account of incompatible values and I think others will, too. Maybe not the majority but I think some others will. Especially as things get worse. There are networks for people who hate (like Truth Social), and networks for people who don't care (like Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp), but I think as things change, more people will care and will look elsewhere. Not everyone but some people.
I got banned for suggested someone stab a can with a knife to open it (they didn’t have a can opener). They said I was promoting violence. I appealed and a human still banned me for that. What a crock lol
I mean, there isn't even a debate.
Just like anything else an argument could be made for rehabilitation, but yeah banning for this is insane.
So nothing
I already don't use Instagram so not really much more I can do but I guess it doesn't impact me because of that
Those who use Instagram will keep using it and forget all about this within 24 hours.
Why do you ask?
I got too far in the article to not hear about people possibly mass reporting the pic. I don't want to hear people on social media and how they think it's censorship, zuck sucking trump, whatever.
Oh fuck, I read the entire thing and it never even mentions it. Maybe I need to finish my coffee but it seems like kids just don't realize you can abuse automated systems, or if you can, that it's not automatically a deliberate attempt to censor their ideas. It's too hard to imagine with "but it's meta! Zuck bent the knee!" screaming in your mind's ear.
So what you're saying is there's no reported evidence of that happening.
Even if it’s not malicious, it’s still a case of a company sitting on more cash reserves than most small countries, and just choosing not to do better on their moderation systems.
Won't somebody think of the zuck?!
An organization that serves fascism is fascist. IG definitely qualifies.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2025
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