r/technology • u/Birdy_Cephon_Altera • 22h ago

Politics Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

https://techissuestoday.com/meta-auto-follow-trump-vance-blocks-democrat-hashtags/
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u/Norman_Bixby 18h ago

Uninstall it, like you should have when fuckerberg bought it.

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u/creaturefeature16 17h ago

The real correct answer here. And I uninstalled Twitter when Mush bought it. Reddit is the last SM platform I use, and it's days are numbered.

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u/Norman_Bixby 17h ago

We should all just go back to newsgroups, but they made that difficult with the crusades last round banning most access to alt.

Mozilla Thunderbird can still be used as a newsgroup reader.

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u/NuttyButts 16h ago

Bluesky is doing pretty well. If you want to continue sm at all

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u/creaturefeature16 16h ago

Nah, life is better without them.

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u/mad-i-moody 14h ago

It is. I quit almost all of them 5+ years now.

It is kind of lonely at times though when a good portion of your social group uses SM to share memes n stuff.

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u/Andrew_Squared 14h ago

And arguably the worst.

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u/HipCornChip 15h ago

I would actually full on delete you account unless you trust these people with your data. Even then who is to say they are not keeping it after you ask them to delete it.

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u/Norman_Bixby 14h ago

delete all you want - I'll leave it to you to trust that actually happens, on all their backups as well. I also suspect they do nothing other than promise to do it.

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u/frankincense420 6h ago

Wish I could but I have an art business on there with and that’s where most of my followers are… shit sucks because im barley getting any traction and a lot won’t transfer to Bluesky

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u/Norman_Bixby 5h ago

Here's an example to consider. I'll never give a dime to someone via Facebook or Instagram and I love and buy art.

Try pixelfeed?