• MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    Say what you want about John Oliver, he’s not always right, and doesn’t nearly cover everything about a topic ever, but he’s out there doing good work for the people.

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      20 hours ago

      My guess is the writers are here among us and don’t want it to become a cesspool. It’s their safe haven. Just a guess though.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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        19 hours ago

        If we’re strictly speaking about “Meta alternatives” that means we’re looking specifically for replacements for Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Threads. “Just don’t have Facebook”, Signal, Pixelfed and Mastodon/Bluesky are direct replacements for those. Lemmy is a Reddit replacement which doesn’t have anything to do with Mark “I am actually a lizard” Zuckerberg.

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          If we’re strictly speaking about “Meta alternatives”

          I mean come on, we’ve got weird uncles with questionable perspectives.

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        11 hours ago

        It’s definitely dated and much more expensive for that older hardware. And that’s only in the US. If you live outside of the US, grey market import only and way more expensive.

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    Maybe this will actually make you ever so slightly less valuable to meta in the short term (presuming they honor your choices for these settings), but they’re still going to continue harvesting your data and can change their minds at any point in the future. Only way to truly become less valuable is to disappear from their gaze.

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      Tweaking a couple settings is a pretty tame way to fight Meta.

      Organise a move from Meta/FB/Insta to the fediverse together with your folks, and close the accounts. This way you don’t loose important contacts during the move, and Meta loose more users.