Months ago, I archived the Facebook app, muscle memory is strong, so I always open Lemmy. I didn't realize how nice it is to have an ad-free replacement until recently. Filled with the content I love.
Especially not having ads.
Advertisements are pollution
It is and we know what how they can be used to manipulate people.
This also reminded me that I should freaking donate monthly to my instance owner since I can afford to.
Edit: I now have a monthly donation setup.
A few months before I completely left Facebook all I saw on my feed were ads. Absolutely no content from friends. The only way to see that they had updated anything was to go to their page. I would follow them and still no updates on my feed at all.
Facebook is not a social network, now it is only an ad network and the ads were rarely relevant. It’s not even good a being shitty.
One friend keeps sending me some weird AI generated videos from time to time. I guess he gets those from Facebook, Instagram or some other trash pile like that. I have no idea how horrible it would be to see that sort of AI vomit all the time.
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