• Coolbeanschilly@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    For several reasons (including this one), I deactivated my Facebook account a month ago, but have kept Messenger to maintain contact with people. Does anyone have a good suggestion for a different app that functions like Messenger, but helps me divest from feeding Markie Mark my valuable user data?

  • njordomir@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    When Zuck builds his inevitable broligarch dick rocket, he should try to land it on the sun.

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        1 month ago

        Every generation does. When my parents were born, a computer was a job title. Both my grandfathers were born before the invention of powered flight, and lived to see men walk on the moon. The only constant is continuous change.

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          1 month ago

          Yeah, but reality is going to keep getting harder to discern from AI fakery. Can’t imagine a few decades from now.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      I’m not! Seriously, I see kids of that age everyday at work and they’re neither better nor worse than we were; maybe even better.

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    1 month ago

    The one and only good thing about having less friends than in my teens is that I have more time to focus on work, which makes me money (directly proportional to how much I bill my clients). That and being able to move off Facebook because my friends are on Signal and Telegram.

    Now, Zuck thinks I want fake AI friends so I could spend hours per day on Messenger again? Hell nah. I’ll go grab a beer in the pub or message one of my remaining real friends. If I dedicate my life to chatbots, I’ll soon have even fewer.

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      1 month ago

      Trading youth for slaving away for capitalism is lame tho.

      Money can’t buy youth and when it’s gone it’s gone.

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    1 month ago

    That’s just cause he has no friends, so he assumes you don’t either.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    He doesn’t think much of anything himself. He’s a scared little boy, because that’s where he cut his teeth. He has no vision for anything, just reaction and fear.

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    1 month ago

    online human friends still can’t compete with seeing them in person … wtf a chatbot gonna do to fix this?

    Not saying we shouldn’t talk to friends online and stuff it’s just that real humans are having difficulties filling these gaps.

    Also, why the fuck would I want a friend like that’ll snitch me out and be used to sell me shit? I swear, he wants us hooked on these things and be like, “Subscribe now or your friends will be shut off forever!”

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    he’s right. I don’t have any friends.

    because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can’t interact with a human being without some form of technology.

    so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.

    • PeteZa@lemm.ee
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      I tried making a new FB account recently, strictly for business purposes and they suspended my account immediately. Looked it up and apparently it’s pretty common. I was shocked at first but am now happy they did that. Fuck FB.

    • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Now that the US has actual concentration camps and actual Nacht und Nebel disappearances, not to mention arrests of judges and political enemies, we have a lot of folk who have been promoted from silent bystander to collaborator or complicit in the imminent holocaust.

      The next step for the regime is to decide imprisonment of the undesirables is too expensive and we should proceed to evacuation (id est, mass execution).

      The complicit category includes every elected or appointed official that continues to cooperate with the current government without obstructing procedure until the facilities are closed and prisoners set free, including those on foreign soil. Democrats included.

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    1 month ago

    F me…

    Does no one see the propaganda potential for this? Yeah, let’s give one guy more intimate, influential control over the psyche of hundreds of millions.

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      I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.