Popular community site became unmentionable – the irony is thick enough to compile
  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
    155·
    13 days ago

    They’re trying to kill counterculture. Pixelfed is also banned at meta’s servers.

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4·
        11 days ago

        Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let’s them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They’re just doing it more now that they definitely won’t face any repercussions.

        They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation making the list of banned topics.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    121·
    13 days ago

    “Listen, we might run our entire company on this platform, but that doesn’t mean we respect it.”

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    60·
    13 days ago

    I quit FB years ago because it’s such a garbage website. In the meantime IG has just gotten worse and worse and worse… Zuck would be king of enshittification if his websites weren’t shit from the start.

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
      17·
      13 days ago

      And network effect people will keep using IG.

        • SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.worldEnglish
          38·
          13 days ago

          The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

          You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

          • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            13 days ago

            I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.

    • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world
      3·
      13 days ago

      You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

  • jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org
    23·
    12 days ago

    The paranoia in me wants to think that this an effort to make people forget that there are, in fact, a whole lot of people capable and willing to audit any kind of open source project at any scale. Like a new AI or similar…

  • Moineau@lemmy.zipEnglish
    16·
    12 days ago

    Cue people spouting: “But muh marketplace!” “But muh friend from highschool I haven’t spoken to in a decade!” “But muh extended family I barely even know exist!”

    Any excuse to keep hitting that crack pipe.