Replying to @⁨Pechente@feddit.org⁩

Honestly, I think the dark web is a safer concept than X or Meta. The legitimacy of society’s most powerful people is far more insidious than backstreet markets and courtesans: they don’t make laws or support evil institutions across entire nations, nor able to leverage them as a club.

The ordinary pickpocket just wants money. A wealthy elite considers other humans to be decorative, to be used and disposed of.

Replying to @⁨eicker@lemmy.world⁩

The production in question is an adaptation of “A Room of One’s Own,” a book by the legendary English author and feminist Virginia Woolf. According to the Teatre Raval, planned promotional posts about the show were blocked on both Instagram and Facebook, likely by an automated content moderation system.

After reaching out to Meta about why the promo campaign had been stomped out, the company replied that “any mention of civil rights, feminism or social reform are usually classified as ‘social topics’ by our automatic system,” and therefore rejected.

According to the Guardian, the company then cryptically recommended the Raval remove “key words” related to social activism, so the promo campaign can pass the automated censor — though the company failed to explain what, exactly, its content system objected to.

”We don’t know if the publicity has been rejected because of the name of Virginia Woolf or because of the word feminism, or both,” Clara Sanchis, who stars in the one-woman show told the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, per the Guardian, which translated the comments. 

“In any case, it’s a way of erasing from the map advances that have taken centuries to achieve,” Sanchis continued. “We have given social media unlimited power and every day we can see how dangerous this is. It’s bias and manipulation.”

It’s not going to stop at Meta just like it did not stop at Roe v Wade being overturned.

I’m sick of men telling me that I’m overreacting about these issues.

Replying to an earlier post

Meta’s content moderation system stepped in … on the grounds that it violated a rule on promoting “social topics…”

Advertising is social by its very nature and I can’t imagine any sort of serious ad that wouldn’t fall under that “social” umbrella.

An ad that suggested “Stay home and do nothing” would still be a case of one human being reaching out to another human being.

I know my reasoning isn’t going to make Meta crumble, but I do want to make it clear how dishonest and craven this is.

Replying to @⁨WesternInfidels@feddit.online⁩

I’m online and I don’t really play as many games but I watch reviews and stuff about the gaming community every now and again (I just bought a Steam Frame 🤦 though …). The number of these damned gaming commentators complaining about “woke in games” is exhausting. So you have to see what these guys consider “social topics” and it’ll unsurprisingly show you their (right leaning) world view. By the way, these commentators just forgive death threats online and say things like “it’s all apart of the Internet” but hey … The new Wolverine game isn’t any good because of woke and DEI though.

Replying to @⁨lobut@lemmy.ca⁩

The number of these damned gaming commentators complaining about “woke in games” is exhausting.

Alternatives exist. There’s a guy I listen to named Felix Biederman who has done exhaustive rundowns of Metal Gear Solid and Dark Souls. He manages to get out 4+ hours of content an episode without worrying about “Woke” even once. Then you’ve got classics like PennyArcade which remain a bastion of politics-neutral gaming content and coverage.

But if you’re just cruising on the back of the algorithm… yeah. Your Asmongolds and Pewdiepies, who go full Hitler because it got attention through negative reaction, are predictably toxic. And then you’ve got the Mr. Beast style of producer who has turned slopifying the algorithm into a passion project.

Replying to @⁨undrwater@lemmy.world⁩

Essentially, yeah. I only experienced it once a while back while travelling in eastern Europe. There was free filtered wifi everywhere. Some of the locals said they had the same thing, but from phone plugs in their walls.

I guess the closest thing I can compare it to would be TV back in the day? You got the dozen or so free channels if you had an antenna, and then you paid for cable if you wanted the good stuff.

Replying to @⁨lemmyng@lemmy.world⁩

Loops

I wish every content creator would post on both TikTok AND Loops, because Loops could definitely replace TikTok. It has a really solid basis and a lot of potential(although I wish I didn’t have to pause before scrolling off of a video).

I am really glad to see someone mention Loops, and if I could choose to view someone’s content on Loops instead of TikTok, I would.

Edit: Oh, and loops.video if anyone is wondering what we’re talking about.

loops.videoLoops.videoThe flagship Loops server, a new creative community for sharing videos and going viral.

Replying to @⁨BitsAndBites@lemmy.world⁩

The viable alternative is nothing.

Because no one gives a shit about you (general you, not specific at BitsAndBites), or about what you say. You use it cause you’re addicted to performing for people you dont even talk to or like, because no one can actually maintain hundreds, if not thousands of connections like you collect on facebook, most of whom don’t even give a shit about you. its just a mutual masturbation session, only instead of jerking each others dicks off, your jerking eachother off with pointless likes.

All social media is, is a means of generating profit from mental illness, and manufacturing mental illness for profit.

Replying to @⁨BitsAndBites@lemmy.world⁩

The problem is that this isn’t like Microsoft Office > LibreOffice/OnlyOffice/whatever. You’re not on Facebook for Facebook, you’re on Facebook for the people there. It’s why I have a lot of issues getting off of YouTube. I’m not on YouTube because their interface is nice, I’m on YouTube because the people I want to watch don’t post shit elsewhere. It’s a cycle, to get users we need stuff, and for stuff we need creators, and for creators we need users. When it comes to online platforms we don’t need an alternative to YouTube, we need an alternative to Markiplier, which is harder to come up with.

If you can get your friends, and family onto Friendica that would help quite a bit. The problem is that using a new server is hard for the end user (I would know, all of my fediverse presence is on servers I host), and telling someone “Use Friendica” is like telling someone to “Use email”. Get a Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever server, and keep it in your back pocket. Give them a link to that server, not to Friendica/Mastodon/Whatever as a whole.

Admittedly I don’t know how hard it is to stop using Facebook because I stopped using Facebook right after they took away the chronological timeline, and stopped using Messenger a few years ago. But spending some time to get a timeline together that you can boost will help any new users you recruit. Crucially, to promote viable alternatives, you need to be part of the viable alternatives, otherwise you’re just someone telling someone to jump into something new with 0 guidance, which is a good way to have them leave.

Replying to @⁨klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol⁩

to get users we need stuff, and for stuff we need creators, and for creators we need users

Don’t know. When YouTube started, there were creators, but no users and no way to monetize. Problem is, we are so used to the high production value on YouTube, where people can (and more often than not hope to) make money, so we don’t give the poor production value videos a chance anymore. But we watched that 140p video back then, because there was nothing else and it was interesting.

Replying to @⁨eicker@lemmy.world⁩

As shitty as Meta is, I really don’t like the reductive nature of this headline. Here is the original Guardian article:

theguardian.com/…/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-…

“Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism”

This turned into “Meta Now Banning Ads That Promote Feminism”, with a quote from the showrunner to make it sound even more scary. Frankly, either of them can barely be called journalism, because they can’t be bothered to write more than a page on the subject.

Replying to @⁨p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩

It seems like that in the Guardian’s article, but there is more to it. Meta told them why and how to go around the censorship. Meta only fixed it after media attention. I trust that you are resourceful enough to translate what is below

The article of La Vanguardia

Sin embargo, Evelyn Arévalo, directora con Pep Tosar del teatro Raval, declara: “Desde la dirección del teatro, queremos matizar la respuesta que ha proporcionado Meta: El anuncio no se restauró rápidamente: Se colgó el día 16 de septiembre, el día 17 nos dimos cuenta de que se había rechazado, preguntamos al asistente de la página por los motivos de dicho rechazo y los reafirmó. Solicitamos revisión del anuncio y se informó de que darían respuesta a los dos días”.

A raíz de esta respuesta, el teatro Raval decidió autocensurarse y publicar el anuncio, un teaser, cambiando las oes de Woolf por asteriscos: W**lf, como se aprecia en la imagen, “y eliminando las referencias al feminismo de la publicación”.

Arévalo se muestra convencida de que “no fue hasta que los medios de comunicación informaron del caso, que restablecieron, por arte de magia, el anuncio”. La Vanguardia fue quien dio la noticia y otros medios también la publicaron, tanto en España como, por ejemplo, The Guardian en el Reino Unido.

Replying to @⁨Emma_Gold_Man@lemmy.dbzer0.com⁩

That’s a shame. Businesses gotta market themselves and sadly social media is often used.

Theres a bbq spot near me with the best ribs/brisket in the area. Standard web menu with ecommerce. With weekly specials on Facebook. I’d never have ordered a brisket bomb sandwich without the FB image.

If I had to describe that meal in a word. Mouthgasm

Hate the platform. Not the restaurant.

Replying to @⁨1984@lemmy.today⁩

Feminism is not single coherent ideology with a linear development. It’s a movement with numerous offshoots who disagree vehemently with each other. There are anti-trans feminists, and there are feminists that are indeed hostile towards men.

The vast majority of feminists I’ve encountered in my actual life - not online - just want rights for women in a world in which the global majority are still denied basic autonomy.

Replying to @⁨ndru@lemmy.world⁩

I think its different in different countries too, so this topic will definently divide people. Depending on where your country is on the feminism scale, it may just have started fighting for equal rights, or it may have gone way too far in the female direction, and started attacking masculinity and pushing down men for doing ordinary masculine things like watching a woman or talking to a woman.

Women don’t stop wanting more control over men’s behavior once they have equal rights. It becomes about controlling men’s behavior so it suits the woman. Things like thinking guys are creeps for watching a woman (unless he is attractive, then its fine). The woman decides if he is attractive and therefore if he is a creep or not.

Replying to @⁨redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world⁩

I just don’t go to that coffee shop. Problem solved. They can say whatever they want. If I don’t support it I don’t go. I don’t see how the coffee shop argument hold up. And if enough people hold the same views they close.

Meta however is too big to fail. Which gives them a free pass to pass their cancerous views onto society while knowing no matter how much the general public hates them and their shitty views they will continue to use the platform because their friends and family still use it. Enshittification. If my coffee shop enshittifies I tell them to pound sand.

Replying to @⁨redditStinksSuperBad@lemmy.world⁩

They do pay “content creators” who have views on the opposite side of the political aisle and when caught paying far-right activists, they said:

“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.

While PAYING to advertise a book with feminism as a theme is not OK. They’re clearly pushing an agenda.

Replying to @⁨unidentifiedfelineobject@lemmy.blahaj.zone⁩

“Such speech may be offensive to many, but it is not Meta’s role to police offensiveness,” the company added.

Yet “social topics” they don’t agree with are banned lol

Also

they were able to earn money on their posts through the platform’s “Content Monetization” program — which is invitation-only.

I’m actually glad it’s invitation-only because there are some subjects on which I could write great informative content that would likely have great engagement from the people interested in those niches, but this way I’m not even tempted to log in and start posting lol