With all due respect - who even cares? Facebook has been an unmoderated shitshow for like a decade now. If you're still torturing yourself by using it (or any social media for that matter) then you deserve whatever fucked up regurgitated TikTok garbage they get paid to make you watch.
So many people on HN come here to piss and moan about e-celebrities and websites they hate - why can't you self-moderate and just leave it alone? This stuff exists everywhere, Hacker News is not an ICANN-certified internet janitor that can snap their fingers and make it go away. People don't care about your broken algorithm or least-favorite Twitter profile. The only person empowered to report this content and deprive Facebook of ad revenue is you, and thus far you've established a pattern complaining about the state of privately-owned content platforms.
The problem with this fatalistic approach is that refusing to participate hasn't been effective at preventing or stopping real world problems that come back and hit you anyway.
At a bare minimum, a portion of those social-media people are voting, and it's not practical for me to create my own nation or pocket universe.
I like this post. Complaining about Facebook is pointless but complaining about people that complain about Facebook is a bottomless font of immense value
With all due respect - who even cares? Facebook has been an unmoderated shitshow for like a decade now. If you're still torturing yourself by using it (or any social media for that matter) then you deserve whatever fucked up regurgitated TikTok garbage they get paid to make you watch.
So many people on HN come here to piss and moan about e-celebrities and websites they hate - why can't you self-moderate and just leave it alone? This stuff exists everywhere, Hacker News is not an ICANN-certified internet janitor that can snap their fingers and make it go away. People don't care about your broken algorithm or least-favorite Twitter profile. The only person empowered to report this content and deprive Facebook of ad revenue is you, and thus far you've established a pattern complaining about the state of privately-owned content platforms.
The problem with this fatalistic approach is that refusing to participate hasn't been effective at preventing or stopping real world problems that come back and hit you anyway.
At a bare minimum, a portion of those social-media people are voting, and it's not practical for me to create my own nation or pocket universe.
I like this post. Complaining about Facebook is pointless but complaining about people that complain about Facebook is a bottomless font of immense value
Why all of the aggression?
I use it for what I use it for and want to talk about what I see on there with other technically minded people.
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