Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags
Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags
Users are outraged as Meta automatically made them follow Trump and Vance on Facebook and blocked #Democrat hashtags on Instagram.
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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.
Block it at their router and blacklist it on her phone
Lol I don't live at home but if I did that it would just make my brother's life hell as he had to try and troubleshoot
Better yet, have it redirect to a fake Facebook that pisses them off so much they change platforms
I don't think that would work in the iOS app even if I wanted it to
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.
My queer FB friends have been moving to Bluesky, which is frustrating because I've been on Mastodon for a year. But, whatever. I can deal with two accounts.
Bluesky is still a good win for us! Not perfect for many, but still a damn good step in the right direction 😁
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
Just need to frame it right. Facebook is full of <insert country they don't like> propaganda, frendica is much harder to not.
Pixelfed is also good enough that Zuck is actively blocking it, so we've got one.
yeah, lemme just sit on friendica all by myself because im the only person in my life that knows what any of this is, no one is moving to these that has a large presence on the meta versions
Okay, but if you're Friendica user you can natively interact with ActivityPub services like Lemmy or Mastodon, and there are addons enabled on some instances adding BlueSky and Tumblr as well, so if you know anyone using them, you'll be able to interact with them
Also if you're interested in following people you don't know, there's Friendica directory, so you'll not be alone
This is the first I've heard of it and I've been here since the Reddit exodus
For kids there is TinyBeans. That's half the reason my older family uses FB anyway... and no way in hell am I putting my kid on FB.
Thankfully, mine are too old to ever give a shit about anything on the internet. Sadly, my mother watches fox 24/7... my father doesn't care for any of it at least and also pokes fun at her for watching that garbage. He still thinks Trump is good because, in his views, he made his stock the highest it ever was, and that's all that matters. I'm only grateful we never talk about any of it when they see my kids or on holidays.