If Facebook is so central to your life… Not sure what to tell you. I got banned from FB for posting that fake nude of trump and it’s the biggest favor they did me. So glad to be away from that garbage fire.
Facebook is central to my life. I use it because that’s where local support groups for the disease I have are. I need this location-specific information to keep up to date on disability benefits and so on. Not everything is about politics.
Same why I’m still on Reddit. I’m definitely not getting people who struggle with the same illness that causes fatigue and brain fog to spend more energy they don’t have on switching to another platform that doesn’t even come up when you type it into a search engine to seek support from other people affected by the illness. It’s easy to say “don’t use this, don’t use that”, if all they use these platforms for is for memes and messenger.
I had to create an account and use Facebook in my support job days, because that’s where everyone was posting shift exchange requests. An entire department won’t just switch to Signal for this just because the new person refuses to use anything not FOSS.
Same witht cars. I prefer not to use my car, and I’m happy that in my day-to-day life I can just walk, cycle or use public transit. But if I’m visiting my parents in the countryside of another country, I’m sure not spending—checks notes—9 hours on train with multiple connections instead of just under 2 by driving the car.
Do what you can to avoid using all these, but don’t go to the extremes where you’re not getting the info you need or getting to places you need to be. Should the the message.
You can safely assume that most Fedi users that are still on Facebook have a defensible use of it. It’s quite unlikely that anyone around here uses it for entertainment which is why the tone you or others use is unnecessarily condescending.
Have you seen anyone on Fedi saying „yeah, I need Facebook because otherwise where would I get my daily AI shrimp Jesus fix?”. Your mental health will improve when you stop assuming everyone you don’t like is evil.
I got banned from FB for posting that fake nude of trump
See, I don’t post posts to my Facebook wall. Haven’t done in years. I use the Groups, Events, and Messenger, because that’s where people already are. Responding to a person with “Why are you using Facebook?” and, when called out on how shitty and judgmental you’re being, doubling down on your own (in the general sense, not you specifically, Dacy) shitty behaviour by saying you should avoid it “because they’re using a website that is complicit in making the world a lot worse? not sure how this is a strange concept on lemmy” is just ignorant of how people interact with other people.
It’s the same shitty judgmental attitude that the OP was calling out in this post.
There is being a dick about facts people don’t want to hear and there’s better deliveries. I can’t disagree at all that the world is worse because of Facebook or that people using it is the only reason it can make the world worse. But I’m trying to be less of a dick about it. I try not to be one of those extremists.
One of the problems with Facebook is also present on Lemmy, which is where people dehumanize each other and act like total extremist dicks. At least on Lemmy, it’s not generally going to pay dickheads who profit from that or for genocide or other suffering.
It’s a complicated world out there but some facts aren’t complicated and that increases the likelihood of people being blunt extremist dicks about those facts. Sucks but that’s just how it is
I can’t disagree at all that the world is worse because of Facebook or that people using it is the only reason it can make the world worse
Neither can I. And I’ll take any opportunity I can to try and persuade people to organise in other spaces and espouse the benefits of doing so. (Check my Reddit account: it’s been mostly inactive since the API debacle, but literally every contribution it has made has been friendly nods towards Lemmy and Piefed.) What I would never do is belittle someone for using it, apropos of absolutely nothing at all.
If Facebook is so central to your life… Not sure what to tell you. I got banned from FB for posting that fake nude of trump and it’s the biggest favor they did me. So glad to be away from that garbage fire.
Facebook is central to my life. I use it because that’s where local support groups for the disease I have are. I need this location-specific information to keep up to date on disability benefits and so on. Not everything is about politics.
Same why I’m still on Reddit. I’m definitely not getting people who struggle with the same illness that causes fatigue and brain fog to spend more energy they don’t have on switching to another platform that doesn’t even come up when you type it into a search engine to seek support from other people affected by the illness. It’s easy to say “don’t use this, don’t use that”, if all they use these platforms for is for memes and messenger.
I had to create an account and use Facebook in my support job days, because that’s where everyone was posting shift exchange requests. An entire department won’t just switch to Signal for this just because the new person refuses to use anything not FOSS.
Same witht cars. I prefer not to use my car, and I’m happy that in my day-to-day life I can just walk, cycle or use public transit. But if I’m visiting my parents in the countryside of another country, I’m sure not spending—checks notes—9 hours on train with multiple connections instead of just under 2 by driving the car.
Do what you can to avoid using all these, but don’t go to the extremes where you’re not getting the info you need or getting to places you need to be. Should the the message.
That sounds like a defensible use of it.
You can safely assume that most Fedi users that are still on Facebook have a defensible use of it. It’s quite unlikely that anyone around here uses it for entertainment which is why the tone you or others use is unnecessarily condescending.
I don’t think I was condescending. It’s possible you’re just tired of hearing about this topic.
And no, I cannot assume that at all. 99% of fb use is indefensible, if not more
Uh huh.
Sorry you’re mad about the truth. Guess you’re telling me you don’t really have a defense. Because I certainly didn’t say that
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Have you seen anyone on Fedi saying „yeah, I need Facebook because otherwise where would I get my daily AI shrimp Jesus fix?”. Your mental health will improve when you stop assuming everyone you don’t like is evil.
… Okay. You don’t really understand anything about what I’m saying or my mental health
See, I don’t post posts to my Facebook wall. Haven’t done in years. I use the Groups, Events, and Messenger, because that’s where people already are. Responding to a person with “Why are you using Facebook?” and, when called out on how shitty and judgmental you’re being, doubling down on your own (in the general sense, not you specifically, Dacy) shitty behaviour by saying you should avoid it “because they’re using a website that is complicit in making the world a lot worse? not sure how this is a strange concept on lemmy” is just ignorant of how people interact with other people.
It’s the same shitty judgmental attitude that the OP was calling out in this post.
There is being a dick about facts people don’t want to hear and there’s better deliveries. I can’t disagree at all that the world is worse because of Facebook or that people using it is the only reason it can make the world worse. But I’m trying to be less of a dick about it. I try not to be one of those extremists.
One of the problems with Facebook is also present on Lemmy, which is where people dehumanize each other and act like total extremist dicks. At least on Lemmy, it’s not generally going to pay dickheads who profit from that or for genocide or other suffering.
It’s a complicated world out there but some facts aren’t complicated and that increases the likelihood of people being blunt extremist dicks about those facts. Sucks but that’s just how it is
Neither can I. And I’ll take any opportunity I can to try and persuade people to organise in other spaces and espouse the benefits of doing so. (Check my Reddit account: it’s been mostly inactive since the API debacle, but literally every contribution it has made has been friendly nods towards Lemmy and Piefed.) What I would never do is belittle someone for using it, apropos of absolutely nothing at all.