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rideit

Bob the Builder
Aug 24, 2004
25,020
12,726
In the cleavage of the Tetons
I could seriously take or leave FB. But I think removing news would be welcome to many of us. I don’t really get any news from FB, outside of someone commenting on a story, or something. They should remove ads while they are at it!
 

mykel

closer to Periwinkle
Apr 19, 2013
5,592
4,298
sw ontario canada
I could seriously take or leave FB. But I think removing news would be welcome to many of us. I don’t really get any news from FB, outside of someone commenting on a story, or something. They should remove ads while they are at it!
I still use it, mainly for messenger for organizing bike stuff.
One thing that I have noticed is the amount of right wing culture wars BS.
The more RW fuckery I Right Click, Hide All, the more I seem to get.
But balance is fair, so I occasionally get a LW post, but it also seems to be one or two lone sources. Currently running about a dozen to one in favor of the fascists.
 

rideit

Bob the Builder
Aug 24, 2004
25,020
12,726
In the cleavage of the Tetons
Curious. I don't get any RW anything of any sort, except maybe an ad for camo cargo shorts, or some shit. They gave up on me a long time ago.
Most of my content is from current friends, college friends, and the Dodo.
 

mykel

closer to Periwinkle
Apr 19, 2013
5,592
4,298
sw ontario canada
Curious. I don't get any RW anything of any sort, except maybe an ad for camo cargo shorts, or some shit. They gave up on me a long time ago.
Most of my content is from current friends, college friends, and the Dodo.
I'm guessing the algorithm is set to "He clicked on it, so he must like it" and ignores the "Don't show me this BS again" part. :bonk:
 

slyfink

Turbo Monkey
Sep 16, 2008
9,857
5,698
Ottawa, Canada
We've got a county level alert system that's (eventually) proven to be pretty effective. It just hits every phone reachable by certain towers. I imagine there are similar up there?
yes. I imagine it's been used. I guess the issue here is that people have tried sharing news via facebook (why people do that is beyond me, but it's popular I guess), but can't anymore because Meta is being a big baby and taken it's ball home.
 

kidwoo

Artisanal Tweet Curator
yes. I imagine it's been used. I guess the issue here is that people have tried sharing news via facebook (why people do that is beyond me, but it's popular I guess), but can't anymore because Meta is being a big baby and taken it's ball home.
chasing off facebook is awesome

even with some of the agency instituted resources we finally have after proving time and again that shit like facebook is potentially an even bigger hazard with misinformation and propaganda during emergencies....we still have one of the biggest fire fighters using it because they don't put resources into an agency solution

Even though the 'get the fuck out now' alerts work great, they need to quit doing this shit and funnel info through other means. This is for a fire near here right now

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as these fires get more frequent and more destructive, there's no excuse for a lack of effective govt systems
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,706
3,191
The bunker at parliament
I posted a link to this on facebook.... Will be curious if it actually appears an anyone's feed.


A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?

Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy").
 

DaveW

Space Monkey
Jul 2, 2001
11,706
3,191
The bunker at parliament
This is an interesting dive into the enshitification of Meta's products.

 

jonKranked

Detective Dookie
Nov 10, 2005
89,319
27,534
media blackout
Not to mention nothing but posts from the same 5 friends I barely interact with. I can’t tell if the people I’d like to see updates from have left the platform or if the algorithm is crap. Probably both. I really should shut down my account.
Just this morning I deleted the app from my phone
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
42,276
19,746
Riding past the morgue.
This is an interesting dive into the enshitification of Meta's products.

My goodness was that a dystopian read.
 

mandown

Poopdeck Repost
Jun 1, 2004
22,161
9,440
Transylvania 90210
I feel like I've posted this before, or maybe just complained to other friends about it. I get flooded with "suggested posts" from accounts showing extreme tattoos and body mods, including never-ending "black alien guy" and anuskatzz content (definitely NSFW searches). Oddly many of these are non-english posts, often filmed or edited on a potato and never properly cropped. I have clicked on the "don't show me this" so many times it is laughable, but I just keep getting more updates of the same. You'd swear there was nothing else online.
 

mykel

closer to Periwinkle
Apr 19, 2013
5,592
4,298
sw ontario canada
I feel like I've posted this before, or maybe just complained to other friends about it. I get flooded with "suggested posts" from accounts showing extreme tattoos and body mods, including never-ending "black alien guy" and anuskatzz content (definitely NSFW searches). Oddly many of these are non-english posts, often filmed or edited on a potato and never properly cropped. I have clicked on the "don't show me this" so many times it is laughable, but I just keep getting more updates of the same. You'd swear there was nothing else online.
You interacted with the post, therefore you want more of this. You just confirmed it with the do not show me this. In my experience ( which is the same as yours ) this is how it works. My feed is now nothing but what I don't want to see, therefore I ignore it. I still use messenger as that is the normal way of communicating with the riding crew.
 

Pneuma

Chimp
Nov 5, 2021
77
61
I wish I could delete my account. Craigslist is no longer hacking it for selling stuff, so I’m stuck using marketplace :twitch:

That was a good read btw.
 

slyfink

Turbo Monkey
Sep 16, 2008
9,857
5,698
Ottawa, Canada
Is it a last-ditch effort at relevance? or do enough people still use that dumpster-fire of a service for this to be an issue... I suppose the incidence of mob killings in India and other places that rely on this platform heavily will be a good indication of what's what.

what a time to be alive.
 

Brian HCM#1

Don’t feed the troll
Sep 7, 2001
32,274
396
Bay Area, California
LOL!!!! Poor little sheep :sarcastic:Zuckerberg admitted to congress that the Biden administration was pushing censorship on Facebook and he complied. I guess it's easier being told what to think instead of doing your own research, talking to others, getting their opinions eventually coming up with you own conclusions. Oh that's right, Lord Fauci along with Joe Biden himself said if you were vaccinated you couldn't get or transmit Covid (originally) that was proved to be false along with withholding potential life threatening side effects from the vaccine itself. They censored other medical experts opinions in the field and that's where the problem lies. Twitter did the same thing, and that's why Musk purchased it. It's going to be a fun next 4 years watching all of you cry like a bunch of 12 year old girls because things aren't going your way.
 

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
22,201
1,377
NC
I feel like I've posted this before, or maybe just complained to other friends about it. I get flooded with "suggested posts" from accounts showing extreme tattoos and body mods, including never-ending "black alien guy" and anuskatzz content (definitely NSFW searches). Oddly many of these are non-english posts, often filmed or edited on a potato and never properly cropped. I have clicked on the "don't show me this" so many times it is laughable, but I just keep getting more updates of the same. You'd swear there was nothing else online.
If you dig around in your user settings, you'll find a variety of bits of information they've collected about you that you can opt out of/delete.

This is, of course, not the same as enabling privacy, but if the complaint is mostly the subject of the suggested posts, it's likely that they've tagged you as interested in body mods/tattoos, in which case saying "don't show me this" is more akin to saying, "this particular news source sucks" rather than saying, "I'm not interested in this topic at all."

If you're interested in more privacy, you can run your logged in Facebook sessions in a separate browser, or if you use Firefox you can use a container, or you can use a separate user inside your browser (lots of browsers allow multiple users/profiles now). That will isolate your logged in Facebook account from the rest of your browsing.
 

binary visions

The voice of reason
Jun 13, 2002
22,201
1,377
NC
LOL!!!! Poor little sheep :sarcastic:Zuckerberg admitted to congress that the Biden administration was pushing censorship on Facebook and he complied. I guess it's easier being told what to think instead of doing your own research, talking to others, getting their opinions eventually coming up with you own conclusions. Oh that's right, Lord Fauci along with Joe Biden himself said if you were vaccinated you couldn't get or transmit Covid (originally) that was proved to be false along with withholding potential life threatening side effects from the vaccine itself. They censored other medical experts opinions in the field and that's where the problem lies. Twitter did the same thing, and that's why Musk purchased it. It's going to be a fun next 4 years watching all of you cry like a bunch of 12 year old girls because things aren't going your way.
This right here is exactly why I didn't do anything when you asked who messed with your custom title.

You're a troll of the highest order.
 

Sandwich

Pig my fish!
Staff member
May 23, 2002
22,067
7,316
borcester rhymes
This right here is exactly why I didn't do anything when you asked who messed with your custom title.

You're a troll of the highest order.
can't wait to hear the mental gymnastics over the mess of a press conference discussing military action in greenland, or how it was biden's fault, not putin's, for invading ukraine.