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  • Holy Shit. It's real and it's nuts.

    I only use the website instead of the app but searching for #Democrat results in démoratie and démocratieparticipative while searching for #Republican results in republican, republican party, republicanmemes, republicanwomen, republicans.

    It's shocking to experience this sort of censorship in real time.

    I wish I had more influence to get people to more to a federated platform. Me quitting IG isn't going to do anything other than cut myself off from information I occasionally want to access (local business events).

    • Do it, quit. Even if no one else does it. Stop relying on these tools.

      Stop justifying using their services. Businesses should have multiple avenues to get the information you need. If they're solely dependent on Meta, they won't change unless people leave.

      • I completely understand the theory and moral argument; but in practice, how does this take effect?

        If I delete my account, I'm not longer able to see events and sales, etc at local businesses.

        My favorite local grocery store has 32,000 Instagram followers. How many of them have to leave to convince that business owner to start using a federated platform? A local bar I go to maybe six times a year doesn't even have a website - only an IG account with 5k followers. It's only because of their IG account that I know they have a chili cookout coming up that I want to enter.

        So logistically, how do we, those who want to jump ship, make these businesses jump with us?

        The best I've got is some avatar change to bring awareness but I don't post enough that anyone would see it anyway. Or maybe actually post something on IG and leave it pinned there. I don't have any posts on my account so maybe leaving an inspiring post would help. This would require not deleting my account.

        Moreover, for small businesses, I know a lot of them are spending a few hundred or thousand dollars here and there to promote events and sales. This is one of the weaknesses of the fediverse. I don't think it's unfair that a business or person has the ability to spend money to ensure their announcement is noticed. Another fed weakness / powerful feature of corporate-social media is the lack of tools for businesses to conduct business. It's just a lot easier to use these platforms that have ten years of updates to make things work best for the most people.

  • Deleted my fb account today. Instagram too. Hadn't really used it other than to talk to my parents. My mom quit too, so I told my dad we can chat over sms and use other video platforms. Been a Facebook user since 2010, a little sad that the site has degraded so much

  • Ugh. And they can do whatever they want. The vast majority of people, even if they care a little, won't jump ship.

    Social media is looking more like a religion these days.

  • I wonder if people will finally leave things like xitter and FB. So many people that ARE politically aware are still using those fucking sites, giving all kinds of excuses (but my followers).

    And I'm not just talking about corporate stooges working for the "liberal media".

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