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.
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