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A lot can happen in a year when you're the world's largest hot or not clone. Here's everything toxic Meta's companies did in 2023 (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest, Oculus and WhatsApp). Subscribe - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0HAW8tgFA_xEmeUupuRwiA?sub_confirmation=1 Chapters - 00:11:59:12 - Nov 00:12:16:11 - Dec 📺 0:00 - Intro - Facebook Meta Wrapped 2023 📺 0:09 - Jan - Tracking is made illegal in the U and Instagram allows boobs 📺 1:57 - Feb - Facebook is draining batteries on purpose and META tries to launch a subscription 📺 2:50 - March - Meta vs Canada (Online News Act)and online therapy sites gave META your data. 📺 4:46 - April - Google and Meta combine forces to "combat misinformation" 📺 5:26 - May - Moderators say Facebook took their humanity and record fines for breaking GDPR 📺 6:59 - June - Meta tracks your HIV purchases and Mark Zuckerberg confirms his fact-checkers weren't doing their job 📺 7:35 - July - Meta launches Threads 📺 8:48 - Aug - Meta fined $100,000 per day for breaking GDPR in Norway 📺 9:49 - Sept - Meta rehires workers they fired (and paid them less) and they launched their smart glasses. 📺 10:35 - Oct - Meta had to stop using the new Threads and Instagram shadow-banned profiles from erm... I can't write anymore or I'll get flagged. 📺 11:59 - Nov - Zuckerberg personally rejects to protect teens' mental health and fires the Responsible AI Team. 📺 12:16 - Dec - Meta let kiddy fiddlers on Instagram and spied on college students prepping for exams. OTHER VIDEOS - Facebook - 👉 The Evil Business Model of WhatsApp - https://youtu.be/YumfmeBYPhQ 👉 How Facebook uses your period data to sell you stuff - https://youtu.be/WazCiuVKlbY 👉 Facebook Shadow Profiles explained - https://youtu.be/sR8M8hZxuPo 👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - https://youtu.be/aRWB81qrzts 👉 Can Facebook be forced to delete the algorithm? Yes, here's why. https://youtu.be/fHZftxVdeGM Amazon - 👉 Amazon Go's toxic longterm plan - https://youtu.be/YQCpHVWxUrE 👉 Every toxic thing Facebook did in 2021 - https://youtu.be/ha4_2GS2_HA Twitter - 👉 Why is Twitter so toxic - https://youtu.be/lT7e_P8rfuk Everything else - 👉 Why Tinder ruined your dating life - https://youtu.be/pNR2We-Srro 👉 The Rise of Dark Patterns - https://youtu.be/cjMbtDcHL7k 👉 All the privacy issues in Clubhouse app - https://youtu.be/HfZJZl22mg0 👉 8 counter-arguments to common privacy misconceptions - https://youtu.be/7RcjYdn3I5U 👉 You're wrong about the value of NFTs - https://youtu.be/zfPYMRbSne4 👉 How social media has changed how we talk - https://youtu.be/gZ-nW2kRkuY 👉 Here's why you don't read the terms of service - https://youtu.be/zni2DiCQ7rU ———————————— 💬 let's chat about data / privacy / the internet on Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/TheInternetExplorers 💬 I've also got a Discord - https://discord.gg/rGcht3SJyV ✍️ Follow on Twitter http://Twitter.com/Thismademecool 📧 Join the mailing list - https://bit.ly/30eHZ7I ✨ Join the internet explorers on Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/SimonCaine 🎧 My podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ask-the-industry-podcast/id946220937 ———————————— All elements were created by me, comedian Simon Caine. ———————————— #socialmedia #meta #facebook ———————————— My gear (affiliate links) Camera - https://amzn.to/2YezaZl Lens - https://amzn.to/2Y1yjuQ Ring light/stand - https://amzn.to/3gTKhiI Software - https://amzn.to/2Y449Hr Graphic Tablet - https://amzn.to/3gOXGbX Green screen - https://amzn.to/3ePYD1H Phone - https://amzn.to/323MtPF ———————————— This is the best for the algorithm... no need to read it (I've been told it's important / helpful) Simon Caine is an English award-winning comedian, writer, author, podcaster and human based in Edinburgh Scotland. He makes a video a week, released every Sunday. Over the last decade, he's performed all over the world, from London to NYC to Australia. His most recent show "every room becomes a panic room when you overthink enough" got 5* reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe where he sold out the run. Previously he opened for Trevor Lock, Ben Miller and Henry Ginsberg as well as gigged on the same bill as people like Terry Alderton, Mark Dolan, Matthew Crosby and Bec Hill. He's been featured in the Huffington Post “Tweets of the Week” feature several times and had jokes/writing appeared in The Poke and other publications. He hates writing in the third person.
A lot can happen in a year when you’re the world’s largest hot or not clone. Here’s everything toxic Meta’s companies did in 2023 (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest, Oculus and WhatsApp).
Preemptive defeding I think is bad. You can’t convince people to move to better options if you never have a chance to interact with them in the first place. Obviously there may be reason to defed in the future but to do it prematurely is a mistake that will isolate the fediverse in a way that is uninviting to new people unfamiliar with the space.
Federating with an entity that is publicly traded and has shareholders to answer to surely has a goal of endless profit growth - that’s the nature of capitalism. The current spirit of the fediverse is one not driven by profits. What we have now will very likely change into something that doesn’t resemble our current experience once it’s engulfed by Meta.
As long as they’re federated, they can track your movements. The fediverse doesn’t need Meta to be successful. And if it can somehow gain benefit from it, that will then become a weakness that Meta will exploit.
It’s not a question of if meta will fuck the fediverse over, but how and when. Pre-emptive defederation is the best way to mitigate those effects. You’ve seen their track record, the time of “benefit of the doubt” is long gone.
Okay, good. I’d like to stay isolated from Meta’s users.
they’re up to no good, we all know that. weather it’s EEE or something else
We don’t need to convince anyone to do anything. The network effect is what matters - the larger the network, the more useful it is, which makes social media a natural monopoly. The way we beat them is by having a more robust network that doesn’t enshittify and retains users long term. Eventually people will realise that Threads is worse because most of the rest of the network has excluded them. They’ll find their way here.
We can defederate for any reason. If people don’t like it, they can go elsewhere, but if that means they’re joining a smaller, shittier network, well, I guess that means they’ve chosen the less popular option. It’s up to them.