• @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    This might actually end up being a good thing. If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us. It seems bad, but there are a lot of people willing to correct their misinformation.

    On the flipside, why are people still using facebook? It’s like 90% AI slop these days.

    • snooggums
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      6 days ago

      If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us.

      The idea of this being useful assumes meta won’t be removing community notes they don’t like.

    • @FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      13 days ago

      Because most of the world are Normies that will use whatever comes pre-installed on their phone, or go onto whatever thing their friends are on already?

      I mean:

      “As of 2025, Facebook has 3.07 billion monthly active users (MAU). The platform has 2.11 billion daily active users (DAU), representing 68.73% of its monthly active user base. India boasts the largest Facebook audience, with 375 million users, followed by the United States, which has 194.1 million users.1 Jan 2025.”

    • @joshchandra@midwest.social
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      56 days ago

      why are people still using facebook?

      I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone https://gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I’m all ears eyes.

      I asked the attendees about how they’d feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don’t want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.

        • @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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          45 days ago

          They’re normal people. This is a common reaction. Most people don’t give two shits about half the stuff we care about here on Lemmy. Nobody here is an average web user.

          • @stardust@lemmy.ca
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            12 days ago

            I wondered because Facebook. Mostly only know old people using it these days. Boomers and people who were young enough to have grown up using it when it first came out.

          • @NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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            25 days ago

            I cant even get my wife to quit using Facebook. She knows why I don’t use it, and she just doesn’t give a crap about privacy. I have lost my temperature before about her constant use of technology that is essentially surveillance tools.

            • @joshchandra@midwest.social
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              14 days ago

              Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine.

        • @joshchandra@midwest.social
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          14 days ago

          There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don’t think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.

      • Clay_pidgin
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        6 days ago

        Think you have a typo there. Should say “by” roomba right? That’s what I heard.

  • DrSleepless
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    66 days ago

    Mark Zuckerberg carries a bag of his own farts and makes his wife smell them every hour

  • TomMasz
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    26 days ago

    There’s no way this can cause the Earth to be catapulted into the Sun.