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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 21:45

Meta has been horrible for years so I donโ€™t know why todayโ€™s shit is the bridge too far, but it is. I deactivated my Instagram and Facebook accounts.

Fuck Meta entirely.

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 21:47

The unrelenting advertising. The intrusion of AI slop. The fact that my participation was fueling a fundamentally evil machine that benefited only the worst people. And the way the experience in that world just got worse and worse and worse.

Iโ€™m glad to be rid of it.

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 21:48

If you missed today's madness: https://www.404media.co/metas-ai-profiles-are-indistinguishable-from-terrible-spam-that-took-over-facebook/

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 21:50

Even their response is typical AI hype train backpedaling. โ€œThe AI we bragged about to journalists was the FUTURE AI slop, not the CURRENT AI slop, which has been removed because of a bug.โ€ (The bug was that people noticed it.)

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 21:51

These are the same people who told us how the metaverse was the future where everyone will have meetings with computers strapped to their faces and all the same journalists dutifully wrote it all down like it was true and never asked them about it again.

Just ... fuck 100% of this nonsense.

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 22:08

As bad as they got, Instagram and Facebook were still built for people to connect with each other. But with the addition of "AI users," that's not even true anymore. The idea of logging in to a service that immediately spawns AI bots to hawk products at you is dystopian as fuck, and that's exactly where they're headed.

https://archive.is/rPCay

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 22:11

Any user-generated platform thatโ€™s introducing โ€œAIโ€ shit HATES their users. Hates them! Wants to be rid of them. Lives in a fantasy world where perfection can be achieved by replacing all of us with software.

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Written by Harry W. on 2025-01-03 at 21:47

@fraying Potentially a dumb question; but what did they do now? I've checked a few news sites and couldn't see anything obvious?

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Written by Extinction Studies on 2025-01-03 at 21:51

@hazz223 @fraying

Only 5% of your FB feed is from your follows. The rest is advertising and "you might like" content. It's 95% enshittified. Are you locked in because of your friends and family, or because you're marginally making money there?

The last time I used Insta, I couldn't use the feed at all without wondering whose feed it was. It certainly wasn't "mine." Again, unless you're making money, there are better sites.

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Written by Oli on 2025-01-03 at 23:23

@hazz223

Does this help? Not sure what specifically happened today though

https://xoxo.zone/@fraying/113766625406828857

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Written by Cassian [main] on 2025-01-03 at 23:06

@fraying Archive link so you don't have to log in: https://archive.ph/SRlke

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Written by Travis F W on 2025-01-03 at 21:55

@fraying my last straw was "instant personalization" back in 2010

(โ€ฆwhich had no limits and no data retention policy)

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Written by Antonio Pรกez ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ on 2025-01-03 at 22:15

@fraying @the_blackwell_ninja

I have been deleting my fb posts one day at a time using the "memories" feature, saving worthwhile pics and text as I do, and then posting chatbot-generated text in place.

It is my small contribution to making fb even shittier than it already is.

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 22:18

@paezha @the_blackwell_ninja So you're a Daily Active User, which helps them sell more ads at higher rates.

If you wanna do something to hurt them, stop using them. That's the only thing that hurts them.

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Written by Lee from Colorado on 2025-01-03 at 22:38

@fraying @paezha @the_blackwell_ninja This is the way.

Walk away.

Don't look back.

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Written by Antonio Pรกez ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ on 2025-01-03 at 22:50

@fraying @the_blackwell_ninja

You should have stopped using it two years ago, yeah? That would have hurt them esrlier

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-03 at 23:40

@paezha @the_blackwell_ninja yeah thatโ€™s how time works.

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Written by Anne Ominous on 2025-01-03 at 23:20

@fraying

the best time to quit facebook and insta was a long ass tiime ago

the second best time is now!

congrats and thank you for finally dumping it! i expect you'll have no regrets. :ablobcatattention:

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Written by Linh Pham on 2025-01-04 at 00:42

@fraying I requested account deletion for my Facebook account and had already deactivated my Threads profile.

I'm getting to the point where I'm going to uninstall the Instagram app from my phone and keep my overall use to an absolute minimum.

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Written by Derek Powazek ๐Ÿ on 2025-01-04 at 01:09

@qlp I deleted the app today and I feel so free.

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Written by joriki on 2025-01-04 at 03:42

@fraying

one of us :ablobcatnodfast:

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Written by Travis F W on 2025-01-04 at 06:15

@joriki @fraying are those guinea pigs?

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Written by joriki on 2025-01-04 at 06:27

@travisfw @fraying

capybaras (see the alt text)

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