Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg
  • hypnicjerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    324·
    6 days ago

    i’m so tired of nothingburger feel good ‘stories’ about search trends

    this really is just reddit lite

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      Eh, it goes harder in some of the bad things about Reddit, but it’s better in others. So it’s less “Reddit lite” and more discount Reddit.

  • Ithorian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    422·
    7 days ago

    We all know that in the end only maybe 1 or 2% max will delete their account

  • kipo@lemm.eeEnglish
    33·
    7 days ago

    According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.

    So that is 51 times higher than usual? Am I mathing that correctly?

    I wish stories like this wouldn’t use percentages this way, and reported hard actual numbers to compare against.

      • Alenalda@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        7 days ago

        And those are real users too. They are intching closer and close to just being a bot hellscape.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      So true… When I see 100% more, I interpret it as 2x. But somewhere around, idk, maybe 300% I interpret “300% more” as 3x. I know that’s technically not correct, but it’s just where my brain goes. I think a good deal of people just throw around “n% more” and “n% as often” interchangeably without much thought.

      Luckily, the bigger the number the less of a difference between the two which is aligned with my brain using them the same.

      (And obviously, if it’s anything technical where it matters I would get clarification.)

  • Teknikal@eviltoast.orgEnglish
    9·
    6 days ago

    I’ve never had even a single Facebook account, to explain why it’s because the UK police once tried to stitch me up and they kept demanding my Facebook account (presumably to fish) I never had one but they would not let that go.

    Once I got representation that line of questioning ended but holy hell did they seem to put a lot of emphasis on my non existent Facebook account.

    For the curious I was raided due to an anonymous phone (to the mayor’s office) call that claimed I was going to shoot up my workplace or something ridiculous.

    My belief is the police wanted to impress the mayor so they just wouldn’t let it go despite being nonsense until I paid representation to make them behave.

    • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 days ago

      This is actually crazy, on the part of the UK police. I knew the UK government are more like that nosy old granny with binoculars than we have it in the States when it comes to stuff like Facebook and etc, but damn. I will allow that school shooting threats are serious, but in and of itself, actively trying to interrogate someone and demanding their SNS is a new level of invasive imo.

  • DocumentingReality@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    221·
    7 days ago

    I posted that article on Mastodon. So, yeah…

    I hope more people will find that these open source social media sites are much better run. As well, as a much better platform than Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, etc.

    Although, I do miss Myspace. The old platform.

    I deactivated my Twitter and Facebook accounts weeks ago. I have my friends and family “moved over” to Friendica. They seem to like it so far. I have even posted (on Friendica) a few links of other open source social sites for them to check out.

    • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      6 days ago

      i worry about (future, AI enhanced) impersonation attempts so I just keep it secure and don’t post anything.

        • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
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          5 days ago

          my grandma is still alive, some other family as well. with AI voice cloning and things i just foresee a lot of negative possibilities. maybe in another decade nobody i know would be on those places as well, hopefully there is some alternative for keeping up with family and old colleagues etc.

            • jdeath@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              5 days ago

              unfortunately can’t jet across the country regularly, as much as i might wish. and sometimes calls happen over (guess what) fb messenger. not everything is a conversation, but meta products cover a lot of ground beyond status updates at this point.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                1·
                5 days ago

                They do, but is that actually helping build your relationship? Or does it make you feel like you’re more connected than you are and justify calling/visiting a bit less?

  • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    277·
    7 days ago

    Will never happen. Those platforms literally push addiction. It’s why the fediverse won’t ever compete imo - there’s no dopamine hit here of likes, # of friends, send a snap right now (or whatever they are called), streaks, etc.

    • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      I get it. I left Facebook when they changed the feed like a thousand years ago and I haven’t missed it.

      My wife is definitely addicted though. She left it for a year, went back just to check in on family after a friend of hers had a baby and she didn’t know about it. She hasn’t put it down since.

      She’s a very family oriented person and everyone is on Facebook. Their family is the type to wake up first thing in the morning and start calling each other.

      Within minutes of being up, “Ok kids let’s talk to mamaw. Let’s talk to aunty. Now we’re calling great grandma!” Cousins, aunts, uncles, everybody. They’re always talking.

      My family is tight like if something goes wrong, but we don’t talk much otherwise. Sister needs help with a bill, someone’s car breaks down, blah blah blah. We can count on each other, just not to talk.

      I get why it means so much to her and why it’s been easier for me. I’ll know my cousin had a kid when I bump into her with it at the grocery store. That’s good enough for my people. :p

      Edit:

      Not that anyone will see this, but we were talking about it tonight and I was dead wrong. She missed her cousins wedding. That’s why she went back, she’s still very sad about it.

    • affiliate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      7 days ago

      i agree with what you’re saying and i think we’re mostly on the same page here. i just felt it would be worth saying that, from my perspective, the point of the fediverse isn’t to compete with those websites but instead to be an alternative to them. it’s to offer a picture of what social media can be like without dark patterns, extreme surveillance, and constant enshittification. and there is a really comfort in that. it feels really nice to not have to worry about a website or app getting worse every time i use it.

      i also feel like the people on here tend to behave more thoughtfully (in general) than people on reddit and other for profit social media websites. and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was in part due to the absence of dark patterns making lemmy feel more relaxed and less high stakes. there’s also a bit of a small town feeling on this website that i kind of like too.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    167·
    6 days ago

    he’s replacing it with community notes, which is a good thing. the problem i have with Facebook and Instagram is all the useless junk videos that i didn’t ask for and it keeps showing me

      • Donkter@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        6 days ago

        Community saw this as a potential note and agreed that it isn’t provably true and doesn’t contribute to the post. Rejected and it won’t be shown.

        If you think this method doesn’t work I have an entire Wikipedia to show you.

          • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 days ago

            The bad faith actors used to outnumber the good. That’s why Wikipedia’s reputation has never recovered, and they’ve never been able to beat the allegations. However, Wikipedia fixed what was wrong with their system of citing and verifying information contributed by others years ago. And X’s Community Notes system has a similar mechanism in place that has proven to be equally as effective and verifiable.

    • tempest@lemmy.caEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      Since Facebook market place is the defacto classified now I keep my account around to buy and sell. My feed is full of AI generated images related to anything I search on market place. Right now it is all trucks because I was looking for truck tires.

  • Eudocimus@lemm.eeEnglish
    93·
    6 days ago

    I have no clue why anyone takes this seriously or is concerned about this. I have seen maybe three fact-checks during my lifetime on Facebook. That was a long long time ago. I disagreed with two of them and I am not sure if the third one said anything interesting.

    Is there a population somewhere I am not aware of, who believes everything they see on Facebook, who will now be ruined by this change?

    • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
      221·
      6 days ago

      I dont think fact checking was the main reason, moreso that they decided to allow hate speech (e.g. They’re allowing targetted hate against LGBT groups).

      • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Never seen FB disallow fake news or hate speech as long as it is coming from the (extreme) right.

        Either they just stop pretending now or irl somehow get even worse?

        • Baguette@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 days ago

          They censored certain phrases and words, which they plan on no longer enforcing. I agree that they leave hate speech on the platform (reports rarely do anything) but the looser restrictions mean people can post even more hateful content and that paves the way for discrimatory ideologies

      • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        The anonymous fact-checking is the main thing PEOPLE took issue with. Like, oh I’m supposed to believe your anonymous fact-checkers know better than me or my trusted sources on what’s true/false, but you refuse to identify or provide the credentials of those fact-checkers, so their integrity and validity can be certified?

        But it’s not the anonymous strangers arbitrarily sifting the wheat from the chaff willy nilly, and with no evidence to support their claims, that were the problem /s. , The problem was CLEARLY the people who took issue with an anonymous rando who has the power to declare a reputable source of info is lying, can not be disputed on that front (even in the many instances of them being wrong), and whose credentials can not be verified but is still supposed to be arbitrarily accepted as the supreme arbiter of reality and fiction.

        Bought and paid for by a soulless corporation. I’ll take “extreme dought” for $500. I was more likely to believe in Santa Clause than an anonymous figure who had no credentials or checks and balances of any kind.

    • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      The usual suspects of Gen Boomer and X that first preached to not believe anything on the internet and yet doing exactly that without an external fact check.

      Personally for stuff I don’t really care, I will always say “Allegedly (…)” before stating something a website says. If the stuff is important (to me or a peer) I might look harder into it.

  • index@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    64·
    7 days ago

    stop upvoting “news” that only ends up giving more visibility to these clowns

  • TypicalHog@lemm.eeEnglish
    222·
    6 days ago

    Just look at the Proton situation - there will always be soyflakes who will wanna protest even the smallest things that don’t fit their agenda.

      • SolaceFiend@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        6 days ago

        A valid argument, and a practice that should absolutely be encouraged in and of itself. When it comes to cancel Culture, and weaponizing hearsay and defamation to try to actively sabotage an entire company or a person without evidence or due process, that’s one thing I think has gotten out of hand. But the practice of voting with your wallet is your right, healthy for our economy and the businesses that contribute to it, and is not inherently predatory or antagonistic, unlike what Cancel Culture has become.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    7 days ago

    Meta did not end fact checking.

    Meta switched to a system of community notes, which is superior at fact checking than a centralized team of fact checkers.

    • Shizrak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      7 days ago

      So community notes can address more instances of misinformation, that part is true.

      But if the community provides misinformation as the “note” then it can actually spread and legitimize misinformation.

      So superior is definitely the wrong word for it. Perhaps more efficient? But also more likely to reinforce echo chambers.

      Superior would be implementing community notes and then having those checked by centralized fact checkers.