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  • It's not virtue signalling if you truly mean it.

    Our feeds should be our own.

    I quit Crackbook a decade ago over the algorithm forcing shit at me I had no interest in.

    That's when I learned what a dark pattern was. I started seeing it pop up nearly everywhere that used algorithms.

    Did the same with Twatter a few years ago. Again, I was over being forced to see shit I had zero interest in. This time I removed my footprint, leaving a handful of posts.

    No one noticed either time I'd left. (No one ever does. That's a whole other rant about the state of anti social media.)

    Never used Threads. Won't even click on the ones that are shoved at me through Insta.

    Kept Insta for patterns and recipes, and over time I've stopped engaging on the platform. It's just as bad as the others for the algorithm and ads. Staying is on me, I know. Sunk cost fallacy or whatever. I didn't want to lose my collection of patterns that exist no where else.

    I started the process of removing what little remains of my presence on IG. Discovered I'm not allowed to remove likes 'to protect the community'. Deleting my own content bugs out often. Removing saved bookmarks bugs out often. No way to keep the videos I refer to often to make things.

    Damned straight I mean it when I say I will cease using Meta products. I am tired of being told how to use something, or how I should think and what I should believe.

    Zuck can fuck all the way off.

  • Sorry Zuck, but "virtue" is not the message all those people making hand gestures at you are trying to signal.

  • Well then, since 2016 I've been a Virtue signaling mother fucker. Fuck Zuck!

  • Guess I was "virtue signalling" back before the term was even coined.

  • I believe in "free speech" but if you leave my platforms you're virtue signalling.

    Or it could be your social media sites are full of death of the internet AI garbage and bullshit.

  • I wonder what he would say about me never having used Facebook. or any of his other "services"?

    • "We have your data anyway, sucks to suck."

      Just like they have mine too. Because we are the odd ones out. Almost everyone else uses that crap. We get identified in photos someone else uploaded. Fingerprinted when we get to a friend's house and auto-join their WiFi. Buy from a business that hands out metrics for "analysis." Click on shared links that weren't stripped of referrer codes. All those tiny data points that mean nothing on their own but in aggregate let data brokers know us better than we know ourselves.

      I hate this fucking timeline.

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