Meta wants to be the global town square, but apparently Virginia Woolf and feminism are too dangerous for its ad system. Meanwhile the company keeps asking us to trust its algorithms with billions of people’s speech. If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content, maybe it shouldn’t be the internet’s self appointed censor.
While allowing scam and porn ads on there that harm millions of people
It’s amazing how blantly they allow scam ads. I reported ads for stolen credit cards and counterfeit money and meta closed my reports stating there was nothing wrong with the ads. What is this? The dark web?
They’re directly incentivized to allow scams, since over 10% of their total revenue comes from scams
It’s a catastrophe in double standards.
If Meta can’t distinguish feminist literature from prohibited content,
You misunderstand… Feminist literature is the prohibited content. I’m not making a joke here. That’s literally their policy!
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STOP.
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USING.
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FACEBOOK.
- Promote
- Viable
- Alternatives
The viable alternative is nothing.
Because no one gives a shit about you (general you, not specific at BitsAndBites), or about what you say. You use it cause you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like, because no one can actually maintain hundreds, if not thousands of connections like you collect on facebook, most of whom don’t even give a shit about you. its just a mutual masturbation session, only instead of jerking each others dicks off, your jerking eachother off with pointless likes.
All social media is, is a means of generating profit from mental illness, and manufacturing mental illness for profit.
Facebook to Friendica
Twitter/Threads to Mastodon/Euclavd
Instagram to Pixelfed/Vernissage
Tiktok to Loops
YouTube to PeerTube
Anything else?
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Whatsapp to Signal/Delta Chat/Cwtch/Briar
Reddit to Lemmy/Piefed/Pylova
Reddit to Lemmy / PieFed / PyLova
Loops
I wish every content creator would post on both TikTok AND Loops, because Loops could definitely replace TikTok. It has a really solid basis and a lot of potential(although I wish I didn’t have to pause before scrolling off of a video).
I am really glad to see someone mention Loops, and if I could choose to view someone’s content on Loops instead of TikTok, I would.
Edit: Oh, and https://loops.video/ if anyone is wondering what we’re talking about.
I stopped using Facebook years ago.
Before there were viable alternatives.
The idea that you need Facebook because there aren’t significant alternatives is just not true.
“Let’s have tacos tonight.” “Nah Im not feeling tacos.” “OK let’s get Chinese food.” “Nah i don’t want Chinese food.” "…ok… let’s make soup. " “Nah I don’t want soup tonight.”
This made me thoughtful and laugh at the same time, thank you.
You’re right, of course. People prefer centralized platforms, and we “nerds” prefer decentralized ones.
There are no alternatives.
No alternative is viable if no one uses it.
The network effect is real, and it’s what lets these fascism pushers stay top of mind at all times.
You don’t have to tell this to me. You have to tell this to my entire extended elderly family.
No, you have to tell them. And then not be on facebook for them to reach you there.
How do I tell them if I’m not on Facebook? That’s where they are.
And also Instagram and whatever other Zuck products are in your life. I’m happy they wasted so many billions of dollars setting of virtual Mii meetings lmao…
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“After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.”
Wow.
not that i’m a meta fan, I fucking hate that company, but this swings both ways. Imagine your local coffee shop is boosting posts about traditional marriage and pro-life themes. They get blocked as well.
I just don’t go to that coffee shop. Problem solved. They can say whatever they want. If I don’t support it I don’t go. I don’t see how the coffee shop argument hold up. And if enough people hold the same views they close.
Meta however is too big to fail. Which gives them a free pass to pass their cancerous views onto society while knowing no matter how much the general public hates them and their shitty views they will continue to use the platform because their friends and family still use it. Enshittification. If my coffee shop enshittifies I tell them to pound sand.
good for you.
There’s no way to get around “any mention of civil rights” though. That covers all humans.
Maybe. This was an advertisement for a book that had those themes.
Personally, I don’t want either to be excluded.
We going to ban Churches from showing the cross next?
ya bro, we’re going to ban churches from showing crosses next. you got it.
facebook has become such a sinister platform. i’ve witnessed several members of my family become radicalized by their algorithms pushing conspiratorial rhetoric. the worst part? they refuse to use anything else. there’s just something about facebook that has them convinced it’s reputable.
This…
I see incredibly violent and bigoted content all the time on Meta platforms and always report it. Rarely does anything get taken down. But feminism bad I suppose.
That was last week
Lol. Feminism should be the standard. Everything else is simply sexism.
This is the problem with social media. Outrage drives clicks, so “feminism” is portrayed as a caricature of brightly died hair, “ugly” women, feeble men, and the stereotype of unemployed art students.
It’s exactly what we were warned about in books like 1984 and animal farm. The media controls thoughts, who controls the media?
Nobody needs meta. Just stop using any of their products.
I can’t think of the last time I used Facebook or anything related to it, my life is better for it.
Just leave them behind.
But hardcore porn is perfectly fine.
hardcore child porn, to be exact.
Yet half of the ads on Mega platforms are literal scams
Let’s start some feminist Friendica and Pixelfed instances 👩💻
Fuck zuck. Of course a pathetic man like him would fight feminism as soon as he felt comfortable doing so
So would promoting a play about how great capitalism is get filtered out I wonder?
I’m fortunate to be of the age where I’ve grown out of Facebook so never bothered to setup Instagram.
Moving on from WhatsApp is hard though 😡
Use Signal instead.
I forced my family and all my friends onto it many many years ago. Fuck Zuck.
I do, most of my direct friends are on signal. But if you’re part of any social group, Sunday league football, wherever you can’t move all those people.
I wonder if they would allow TERF ads. Or is that still too feminist for them?
thankfully TERFs are never about the F part, they’re mostly just TERs.
I’m sure they would, until the terfs are no longer useful to them
“Women ruin everything” In the olden days it was so much better. Women! Know your place! [edit - this is satire]
There place is right beside anyone else, anyone is just another humon. And most of them already know it, it mostly the other side that does not want to accept this it seems?
Just in case, my comment was harsh satire. Not the rantings of one of those morons.
This is fine under section 230.
Be careful, we don’t want to get rid of section 230.
Best thing to do is get as many people off meta sites as possible.
