iyo did facebook ruin the internet?

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well for sure some moderators working for whatever partner facebook farms out content moderation to will have extreme right-wing views - they look at extreme right-wing stuff on facebook all day, it's got to work on some of them. but their work is also insecure and highly scrutinized. if they were making many mistakes by not moderating things that they should they would be fired. if it's a systemic for users it's not an accident

systemic problem

I should really start keeping a file of all the horrible comments I report that turn out not to violate community standards, because it happens ALL THE TIME.

xp to Boring, Maryland: Oh, the Jack Acid Society comes up from time to time. There are some real Pogo experts in the group and they have a fine old time talking to each other about all the minutiae of Walt Kelly's art. I actually feel fine about the group itself; it seems to provide some interest and connection for a lot of people my parents' age, and I moderate it carefully enough to keep it from turning into a dumpster fire like most Facebook groups. I just wish it weren't on Facebook, because it keeps me trapped there.

zero percent success rate at finding a $1200 Rhodes piano

Man, that's the last straw. Fuck Facebook forever.

Perhaps we could crowdfund this?

xp my solution to this many years ago was creating a facebook page for my dog, which i kept secret, and adding fido as an administrator on the pages and groups i managed at the time (but have ling since abandoned) before deleting myself.

make Beauregard Bugleboy the admin of the Pogo group

lol crut

https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2021/06/green-mp-golriz-ghahraman-clashes-with-facebook-in-social-media-giant-s-first-appearance-before-mps.html

I just got a 30 day FB ban for writing "shut the fuck up you dumbshit hamster".

u fucked w the wrong hamster apparently

Zuck apparently needs another run on the wheel this mornin

pick on a species your own size next time

"shut the fuck up you middle aged fat bearded guy with a bad back!"

*half of ILX turns around*

https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/facebook/000/029/191/cover6.jpg

Haha, a Facebook ban is probably good, you know? I woke up today and started yelling at some baseball analyst because he was making fun of the new name that replaced a racist name of a baseball team. I did this within 10 minutes of waking up and also picked a fight with the racist commenters on fangraphs.

This is not good for us, or for humanity

to be fair, I'm very very glad they changed that team name, but the "Guardians" is indeed dumb and they copped out by not going back to the Spiders with their 1887 logo.

hot takes of the day:
1. all mascot names are bad, but ones that replace racist mascot names are less bad and are therefore good
2. picking fights w ppl on twitter is never good, just find reportable tweets and mute/block and forget they exist
3. getting tempbanned from fb is good fullstop

xp

Yeah, i think that’s the natural reaction! and people are just reacting to the new name.

But upon waking, my first thoughts were “I don’t recall the baseball ZiPS guy ever criticizing the name of the Cleveland Indians, or the stadium full of white people in Atlanta doing the tomahawk chop while also impersonating native Americans, but yet he suddenly has a lot of criticisms for the replacement name”

Which is just...I’m going camping for real. I’m packing right now, in fact I’m running late. I’m camping way down in the Ozarks, where there are no racists. No more Twitter for me today. And no more Facebook for you today, Nean! <3

m bison I will ruminate on the hot takes while sweating my ass off in the shade tonight. I believe these takes are right

Have fun KM! Enjoy your trip!

Yeah there are a lot of ugly as fuck takes on sports Twitter, I can't stand 98% of sports guys tweets.

my hoops burner acct is in fact the only good sports twitter acct afaik

I'm assuming that this will end in nothing but tears and ruin, but I've been helping some people put together a new group, a revival of one of the "Respect My Trans Homies" cis/trans alliance groups. So far all of the other admin seem to be normal and sane people.

I got dozens of targeted posts about linda rondstadt’s birthday.

Now the same is happening for Alison Krauss’s.

Why?

you are attracted to female folk singers?

I do like female folk singerz. I never liked the pages of these two specific artists though.

must be completely random then

But who is behind this? These birthday pushes? They come from different pages.

sounds like facebook sucks, maybe

maybe you're close social media friends with people who are love female folk singers.....birthdays...

My ex who's struggled with disordered eating for 15 years has been getting non-stop ads for weight loss apps and shit lately.

when I still used it: Ad blockers and incognito mode was the way.

keep seeing video on facebook with the progress bar removed, i find this sooo annoying lol

That happened to me two times yesterday, brad - as if fb isn't annoying enough already

Is Facebook actually fun for anyone anymore? I have to keep it around for work and I message memes to a couple of people but it just seems miserable overall, anything fun shifted to Instagram or TikTok, maybe Twitter.

meme and niche communities are fun

that's it

Yeah I just check it for a couple communities and updates from a few friends who post interesting stuff, but often I'll get sucked into stupid videos or articles or whatever other garbage gets pushed. "Fun" is rarely a word I'd use to describe this process

There are people in my life - schoolmates, semidistant relatives, former neighbors, ex-girlfriends, former colleagues, former bandmates, members of scene-adjacent bands - that I neither want to forget forever, nor do I want close personal contact with.

Facebook is very good at allowing me to finely calibrate my contact with them (and, it should be said, their contact with me). I can restrict what I expose to whom. Some people can see what I'm up to musically, others can exchange kid-related stuff, and I can limit political things both to and from different groups of people.

Tldr: These are people I would not ever directly call or email, but who I'm not ready to completely drift away from. Don't most people have that category? How do you reach them if not FB?

I think that is a good category.

I'm a bit surprised that a Friends Reunited (school/college/university colleagues by year) site hasn't re-emerged, as that did a lot better job of allowing you to see what former colleagues are up to without requiring close contact or being deluged by unwanted postings.

I just find Instagram fiddly and hard to use and I don't really care about pictures much

instagram is extremely bad and must be stopped

facebook's most basic function is v attractive, it's nice to have a free-floating address book of ppl you've known throughout your life, if only it hadn't distorted the internet and the public psyche beyond recognition along with it :D

also amazing to me that some other social media organ has not attempted to do anything as convenient and awesome as facebook events are (even though facebook as a UI is hideous, unnecessarily convoluted, and like bleach to the eyes)

also amazing to me that some other social media organ has not attempted to do anything as convenient and awesome as facebook events are

the simplest explanation of course is that nothing is trying to be facebook at the moment bc facebook already is and it's foolish to attempt to replace it(?), and instead things are trying to be tiktok

no idea why i'm even making these posts or why i'm thinking about facebook this morning lol

facebook events were already close to going extinct before covid hit, in my group at least

i mean that certainly happened to me as well, maybe events as we know them are over

i've deliberately 'ruined' my facebook feed, joined bundles of groups like 'i lived in skokie illinois in the 60s and 70s' and at one point the algorithm suggested i add a bunch of russian military academy guys, so i friended them and then got nudged to add some old russian rock and rollers. now my feed is really good TBH

lmao that sounds awesome

i just get advertisements for complicated shirts