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Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags
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It is almost like meta is a terrible company.
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Gosh, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call a privacy nightmare terrible… /s
Zuck can eat a bag of dicks. Cancel your account. Stop enabling this rich loser.
It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It's not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.
Great context
Important context, yes.
But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.
So its not as clean here as it seems.
Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add "archive"
Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don't autosub people to the new different account.
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I wonder if trump is now paying people to comb back through previous posts to look for things he can delete or edit to rewrite history. Now that I've said I feel fairly sure he's doing exactly that because he does anything dishonest that he can which is tolerated
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That just sounds like a dumb way to do it.
That's the way they do it, these accounts belong to the current potus and vp
Itsan outdated practice but its not stupid in a traditional democracy. Who the elected official is should not make a difference in wether or not people are interested to know what government communicates.
Changing it would be like if in the old days your dedicated radio station changing frequencies because they got a new boss. Plenty (old people) would just be confused on why there is no news.
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Lol not even a fuckin full day.
Do your service and convince your parents to leave every Meta product.
My mom wouldn't leave Facebook if you paid her. She treats it like it's the entirety of the Internet
I thought Facebook was dying a few years back and I only became more convinced when an older family member was trying to convince me that it wasn't.
A social media app that targets old people can't last.
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What's the equivalent easy(ish) to use / post replacement for them?
Friendica for Facebook
Pixelfed for Instagram
Loops for Tiktok maybe, Haven't tried either though
Choice of XMPP/Signal/Element for whatsapp
Your average person, let alone tech illiterate boomers, is never going to hop on to federated services.
Except all the people switching to Bluesky?
The issue isn't federation, it's the onboarding and "style" of social media.
Also I don't think there is a Facebook equivalent is there? If people weren't on Reddit they aren't gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.
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As-is, no, but an app with a slick dumbed down interface that all we nerds already here despise and equally slick on-boarding flow that hides all the "technical" details could
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Ditch the apps.
You are not married to apps.
Anyone on Lemmy should understand that. We came here from elsewhere.
DITCH THE APPS.
Me thinks you're preaching to the choir 😅
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Meta under fire ...
... and not a single person stopped using it.
Naw there's serious momentum for an exit. Most subreddits are banning X links. Anecdotally a lot of people who I would have never expected have reached out to me about Instagram alternatives. We have power here. Let's not squander it by pretending we don't.
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Holy Shit. It's real and it's nuts.
I only use the website instead of the app but searching for #Democrat results in démoratie and démocratieparticipative while searching for #Republican results in republican, republican party, republicanmemes, republicanwomen, republicans.
It's shocking to experience this sort of censorship in real time.
I wish I had more influence to get people to more to a federated platform. Me quitting IG isn't going to do anything other than cut myself off from information I occasionally want to access (local business events).
Do it, quit. Even if no one else does it. Stop relying on these tools.
Stop justifying using their services. Businesses should have multiple avenues to get the information you need. If they're solely dependent on Meta, they won't change unless people leave.
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If you search #trans, or #transgender, or #lgbt absolutely no results lol. Searching just #lgb works fine though. Awesome
Searching just #lgb works fine though
Let's Go Bisexuals!
Right-Wingers were never anti-censorship look at how they handle books in school.
Wait, I thought they were going to end censorship.
META wouldn't go and just lie like that, would they?
One user said their cousin noticed a notification about Trump changing his profile picture.
Some quality reporting there.
I rarely use Instagram but am about to delete my account there. Will be ceasing to use Whatsapp too, and hopefully deleting my account. I'm otherwise off of meta products. Only problem I foresee is that when traveling outside the US, everyone tends to want to use WhatsApp.
Edit: anyone recommend a WhatsApp alternative? Privacy and widespread adoption are the top concerns. I'm defaulting back to Signal, but I know there have been some issues with it
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The world weeps, however the US is the embodiment of the skinner meme.
So no auto-follow for me on any three accounts.
However #Democrat on Insta returns no hashtags
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Let's not forget to blast the assholes responsible for this (the individuals, not the company) as we all leave the crappy platforms so it doesn't affect us personally.
Yes the correct answer is don't be on facebook or anything it owns, but also nobody should be doing this, anywhere. Keep the heat on the bastards.
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Everyone who is semi intelligent knew this was going to happen. People need to quit acting like theybare surprised. It's going to get worse, and the only people protected are rich white people who suck up to evil. Even then you're not safe. Bumpler was good friends with Epstein until Epstein bought a piece of property that krumpler wanted. That's why they stopped being friends. It wasn't the sex trafficking that turned him away.
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