: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    Best decision ever for a company.
    The US gov pisses away billions of their taxpayers money and buys all the low quality crap from the MIL without questions.

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Gosh, they’re burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR…

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
    711·
    2 days ago

    I’m gonna die telling fascists to eat a bag of dicks as they try to arrest me for talking shit about Israel on my own Lemmy instance. That’s the country these fascists are shaping for us. An AI-driven hellscape.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    67·
    2 days ago

    having been on facebook since ~2009 it was undeniably hard to quit, but finally deleting it (not ‘deactivating’) last year was one of the best things i’ve ever done for my mental health

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      9 hours ago

      Browsing Marketplace and chatting with my friends doesn’t really affect my mental health, tbh.

      My point here is to curate your own shit instead of relying on corporate soc-med to do it for you and you’ll be much better off.
      All the political bullshit on Lemmy affects me much more than Facebook ever has. lol

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      24·
      2 days ago

      No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like… your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I’m including any social network where “me” is the main focus.

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly.

        That’s exactly what it feels like. I installed Social Fixer on my browser(s) to make FB at least usable for the few times I have to touch it for event coordination. People ask me what that’s like and I simply say: “Oh, it’s boring now. I only look at status updates for a few minutes and go do something else.” The pull to go back is just… gone. It’s as dull as LiveJournal ever was, and frankly, it’s better this way.

        What did I strip out of the feed? Everything that wasn’t generated directly by someone on my friends list. That’s all it took. All the “engagement” is either artificially injected into your feed, or clickbait people pass along because their feed isn’t filtered.

      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

        I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It’s just more natural. Instead of a feed, it’s a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

        And if I don’t like a server, I can just… leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      What do people do there that is so harmful to their mental health? I just follow what relatives are up to and read the latest hobby/town gossip

      • AnAmericanPotato@programming.devEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        I honestly don’t know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that’s with an ad blocker.

        I don’t understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it’s a “boiling frog” situation, or maybe they’ve developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it’s completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn’t have believed 10 years ago.

      • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
        91·
        2 days ago

        Originally the criticism was that you see the highlights of other people’s lives and then compare that to your everyday life and that’s depressing.

        Nowadays I think it’s all the politics being injected everywhere. Me? I look for cars and car parts on groups. That’s about it.

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          5·
          2 days ago

          Literally all I see are ads, I guess you need friends for it to be addictive or something…

          I really wish my city would get off its collective ass and stop using marketplace.

          • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I’ve never subscribed to.

            I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that’s it these days.

            • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              2 days ago

              Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being ‘Amen’ spam. Bots on top of bots. It’s just fucking dystopian.

      • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
        114·
        2 days ago

        google “facebook mental health” and you’ll get an idea. if you’re fine using it, that’s great. but not everyone is like you. and the “i’m fine with this–everyone else should be too!” attitude is one thing i saw constantly on facebook.

        edit: notice in my original comment i spoke of my own experience, not anyone else’s, nor what anyone else should spend their time and attention on

        • Joe@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          71·
          2 days ago

          Except my crazy relative (just 1, thank dog) also has telegram and feels the urge to forward every damn whackjob conspiracy theory reinterpretation of truth that they find to me and my wife, despite us never replying except to ask them to stop. eg. Cloud seeding, windmills and electric cars are responsible for destroying the atmosphere (not co2 and other greenhouse gases); Bill Gates etc. are spreading microchips through vaccinations; judges ruling that measles doesn’t exist; Ukraine is full of nazis; and yes, even regurgitated feelgood fairy tales and random cat pictures from Facebook. So glad they are in a country far far away from me. They “do their own research”, of course.

          So bloody sad that so many people are in a similar situation of avoiding friends and family for their own sanity (and sometimes safety).

          • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            2 days ago

            that’s only a small part of it. the bigger issue is that people are just generally assholes on the internet, even your not crazy relatives. so for me the less digital socialization the better. lemmy is the only social media i do now (not having a profit motive helps some), but i have dialed it back like 99% since peak reddit.

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.

    You don’t hear many openly conservative tech billionaires talking like he does.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      2 days ago

      Autonomous warplanes “that fly missions alongside human pilots”.

      I’m sure they’ll keep the humams involved. No way they’re trying to build a drone army that won’t question orders.

      It’s not hyperbole to say they’re working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.

  • Cruxifux@feddit.nlEnglish
    31·
    2 days ago

    Man fuck that company to death. Fuck them so hard. We need the people to see this for what it is and do something. CEO’s aren’t bulletproof.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
    312·
    2 days ago

    They failed making VR, so now they’re a defense contractor for AR. Wonderful.

      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        I might just be a massive god damn nerd, but I would rather build my own with an old Pixel, a printer, and a Pi. If I can’t be up to my elbows in its guts, from board to code, then it isn’t mine.

      • TachyonTele@lemm.eeEnglish
        71·
        2 days ago

        Metas failed game(s?) are legendary. Plus, you know, account requirements.