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Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags
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Not really under fire though, are they?
this post was submitted on 21 Jan 2025
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Also not really blocking democrat hashtags.
Right-Wingers were never anti-censorship look at how they handle books in school.
Meta under fire ...
... and not a single person stopped using it.
Naw there's serious momentum for an exit. Most subreddits are banning X links. Anecdotally a lot of people who I would have never expected have reached out to me about Instagram alternatives. We have power here. Let's not squander it by pretending we don't.
Ditch the apps.
You are not married to apps.
Anyone on Lemmy should understand that. We came here from elsewhere.
DITCH THE APPS.
Me thinks you're preaching to the choir 😅
It is important to note that if you followed the official VP Harris or POTUS Biden, those accounts were turned over to Vance and Trump yesterday. It's not actually an auto-follow because you were already following them.
Friend of mine showed a screenshot that the official FLOTUS was just renamed to add "archive"
Well that is pretty fucking shitty then. Either conceptualize the potus account as being all presidents ever or don't autosub people to the new different account.
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Great context
Important context, yes.
But also of note is that there were users who tried to unfollow and it would re-add. Only blocking worked.
So its not as clean here as it seems.
I wonder if trump is now paying people to comb back through previous posts to look for things he can delete or edit to rewrite history. Now that I've said I feel fairly sure he's doing exactly that because he does anything dishonest that he can which is tolerated
Oh there will most definitely be a Ministry of Truth.
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It is almost like meta is a terrible company.
Gosh, I don’t know if I’d go so far as to call a privacy nightmare terrible… /s
Zuck can eat a bag of dicks. Cancel your account. Stop enabling this rich loser.
Tiktok is doing similar shit like banning words/phrases.
I just want to say that I'm oft amused by the single downvote on common-sense comments such as these. There must be about twelve repub-leaning asshats who go around expressing their dissent and it's just pathetic. Or, and this would be even more pathetic, one has singled out my account and watches where I post and comment and then single-handedly goes through voting "no, no, no." I cheerfully wave to you, asshat.
At least three are fewer on Lemmy but yes, those types are absolutely out there. Have an upvote 😏
If you search #trans, or #transgender, or #lgbt absolutely no results lol. Searching just #lgb works fine though. Awesome
Searching just #lgb works fine though
Let's Go Bisexuals!
Lol not even a fuckin full day.
Do your service and convince your parents to leave every Meta product.
My mom wouldn't leave Facebook if you paid her. She treats it like it's the entirety of the Internet
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What's the equivalent easy(ish) to use / post replacement for them?
Friendica for Facebook
Pixelfed for Instagram
Loops for Tiktok maybe, Haven't tried either though
Choice of XMPP/Signal/Element for whatsapp
Your average person, let alone tech illiterate boomers, is never going to hop on to federated services.
Except all the people switching to Bluesky?
The issue isn't federation, it's the onboarding and "style" of social media.
Also I don't think there is a Facebook equivalent is there? If people weren't on Reddit they aren't gonna care about Lemmy. The Facebook crowd need a good alternative before they will migrate.
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Looks like Zuckerberg got into Trump's face paint
It’s actually from motorboating trumps ass..
Jesus fuck this is a mental image I didn't need.
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The world weeps, however the US is the embodiment of the skinner meme.
Holy Shit. It's real and it's nuts.
I only use the website instead of the app but searching for #Democrat results in démoratie and démocratieparticipative while searching for #Republican results in republican, republican party, republicanmemes, republicanwomen, republicans.
It's shocking to experience this sort of censorship in real time.
I wish I had more influence to get people to more to a federated platform. Me quitting IG isn't going to do anything other than cut myself off from information I occasionally want to access (local business events).
Do it, quit. Even if no one else does it. Stop relying on these tools.
Stop justifying using their services. Businesses should have multiple avenues to get the information you need. If they're solely dependent on Meta, they won't change unless people leave.
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So no auto-follow for me on any three accounts.
However #Democrat on Insta returns no hashtags
Wait, I thought they were going to end censorship.
META wouldn't go and just lie like that, would they?
I rarely use Instagram but am about to delete my account there. Will be ceasing to use Whatsapp too, and hopefully deleting my account. I'm otherwise off of meta products. Only problem I foresee is that when traveling outside the US, everyone tends to want to use WhatsApp.
Edit: anyone recommend a WhatsApp alternative? Privacy and widespread adoption are the top concerns. I'm defaulting back to Signal, but I know there have been some issues with it
Signal is the best option. The only downside being that it relies on your cell number. Otherwise it's the most secure platform/protocol.
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One user said their cousin noticed a notification about Trump changing his profile picture.
Some quality reporting there.
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