If a member of my senior executive team did this I'd lose my shit. Even if supposedly playful it could easily be interpreted as a "joking but not really joking" cultural cue. Your job isn't just to hear and dish happy horseshit all day. #DeleteFacebook yahoo.com/news/meet-face…
Again just #DeleteFacebook if they aren’t going to try to act responsibly and ethically. How many billions of dollars and users does one person need at such great expense to everyone else?
I mean how else can he make even more billions of dollars if we don’t juice engagement?!?! Poor poor Zuck /sarcasm #DeleteFacebook
Today, The Wall Street Journal posted leaked reports from Facebook after it boosted “meaningful social interactions” on the platform. While Facebook framed the move as helping friends connect, internal reports said it had “unhealthy side effects on important slices of public content, such as politics and news,” calling these effects an “increasing liability.”
Today’s report delves into the fallout of a 2018 decision to prioritize posts with lots of comments and reactions. Facebook allegedly made the change after noticing that comments, likes, and reshares had declined throughout 2017.
The issue that many people have with Facebook, apart from selling access to personal and usage information, is the tweaking of algorithms to favour Facebook's business interests. It's probably why so many people who left Facebook have rather opted for networks with straight chronological algorithms which show only the profiles they are following.
See Political parties told Facebook its News Feed pushed them into ‘more extreme positions’
#technology #deletefacebook #socialnetworks #polarisation #misinformation
Parties worried about "long-term effects on democracy."
Could Facebook just one try to do the non-malignant thing? I wouldn't be surprised if this system was applied very asymmetrically as well. #DeleteFacebook arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
It is fascinating that Facebook can have hyper-sensitive filters blocking completely innocent posts about #fediverse networks like #mastodon but allow rampant agitprop, anti-vaxx, qanon conspiracies etc. to thrive for reasons. #DeleteFacebook changelog.complete.org/archives/10285…
Facebook has had a string of disasters around trust with user privacy (just think of Cambridge Analytica and WhatsApp metadata). Their philosophy has been shown to be: Cross the line as quietly as you can, and if caught, apologise, and do it later in a better way. Mark Zuckerberg has publicly made promises on live video interviews, which he has just broken years later (remember the one that "you own your data").
So sorry, but I really 'see' this as a pretty invasive frontier for Facebook. I'd rather trust some other company, and more so if it was fully open sourced, so we can examine how it works and what the safeguards are. Trust is the big issue!
See Facebook and Ray-Ban’s smart glasses leak before launch
#technology #AR #privacy #deletefacebook
Would you wear these Facebook Wayfarers?
"I feel sorry for people who think that signing a petition/letter is going to make any difference. Has it ever? It's like people who tweet #DeleteFacebook but not actually delete their FB account." https://x0f.org/@FreePietje/106728495350260247
#eff should just urge everybody to #deleteFacebook instead, then preferably block the servers of the company https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/how-change-your-facebook-activity-settings
May the Zuck/Facebook "metaverse" never come to be. Also if any of the other FAANG+M companies could try not to absorb even more of our online worlds that'd be great. #DeleteFacebook bbc.com/news/technolog…
My Facebook VM died because I screwed something up. Isolated in a VM is the only way I use FB and I hate that I even use it that much. The question is if I build a new one or try once again to #DeleteFacebook (I succeeded for most of 2020).
File this under "this is a feature not a bug" as far as I'm concerned. I don't want your algorithmically invasive ads. I would have opted out earlier if I had the chance and do what I practically can to minimize their data vacuums. #DeleteFacebook arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
Project Liberty would use blockchain to construct a new internet infrastructure called the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol. With cryptocurrencies, blockchain stores information about the tokens in everyone’s digital wallets; the DSNP would do the same for social connections. Facebook owns the data about the social connections between its users, giving it an enormous advantage over competitors. If all social media companies drew from a common social graph, the theory goes, they’d have to compete by offering better services, and the chance of any single company becoming so dominant would plummet.
We have numerous open social media protocols (eg. ActivityPub, XMPP) already, but none have really risen to the top as the go-to alternative that everyone was going to adopt. Maybe throwing real money as a new protocol could help, with the remainder of the money being the incentive for existing networks to adopt it. Facebook won't as it did use open protocols before and then removed them. But if the impetus for this is enough, and enough other networks adopt it, then maybe the "critical mass" on Facebook will switch to one of the alternative networks. We've certainly seen with Friendica, Diaspora, Hubzilla, etc that you can have two or more protocols running and keeping different networks seamlessly connected. So this is fully possible. It just needs to be an open standard, not controlled by any single company or entity.
See Project Liberty – the plan to replace Facebook
#technology #walledgardens #projectliberty #socialnetwork #deletefacebook
Billionaire is pouring $100 million into an attempt to rebuild the foundations of social media.
Do people want an app specifically for discovering events and messaging as a group? That’s the bet behind IRL, a young social network that has been quietly growing over the past year and just attracted an eye-popping amount of money to take on Facebook.
The two-year-old startup is betting that a post-pandemic world will fuel its mission to help people “do more together,” usually by meeting up in real life — you know, IRL. The idea has attracted the deep pockets of the Japanese tech conglomerate SoftBank, which is the biggest investor in a new $170 million round of funding that values IRL at roughly $1 billion.
It is a much simpler interface without all the clutter that Facebook has. It seems to revolve around posting to Events and Groups (not Profile walls), with Groups just have a simplistic chronological chat stream with text, photos, polls and emojis (a bit like a modern IRC). But I get that most people will want to focus on the actual chat with their friends, so really a hundred 3rd party add-ons is not what most people are after.
So a lot will depend on what their monetisation vs privacy there finally is. We actually don't lack options for alternatives to Facebook but it's more about what ends up going really viral with traction as all the existing alternatives are actually going well in their own rights already.
See IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups
#technology #socialnetwork #alternativeto #IRL #deletefacebook
"We’re building Facebook groups and events for the generation that doesn’t use Facebook."
It needs more tweaking but I decided to update the Facebook Top 10 performing Facebook posts partisanship graph (H/T @FacebooksTop10 for data). It has gotten far more right wing since 1/6. Raw data, code, and documentation at: #deletefacebook
It needs more tweaking but I decided to update the Facebook Top 10 performing Facebook posts partisanship graph (H/T @FacebooksTop10. Things are getting worse not better. #DeleteFacebook Raw data, code, documentation at:
