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[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Why do any of you still use facebook?

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's fuckin' unavoidable. I don't use any part of it, except for Marketplace, because nothing like it exists. It doesn't matter if it's shit, it's where the stuff is listed for sale.

As for the rest of it, I just quit. Conversations I used to have on messenger have moved elsewhere.

[–] bystander@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There really needs to be an organized effort from sellers and buyers to identify a solid alternative, which is hard. And post listing about moving off to that platform. A lot of existing ones have their own downsides, and there are just not enough people on them consistently and actively

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago

Swappa is good for tech.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I like Craigslist, and honestly it's pretty good now. There just isn't anyone on there as compared to Facebook marketplace.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

FB itself for a community group, and Messenger for my family group chat 🤷

The group now has a presence on Discord, but there are still 26 times as many members on FB. In Hungary many people still use FB as their main social network. At most they also use Instagram, but that obviously doesn't work for closed discussion groups.

[–] nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago

Fediverse is still mostly Westerner.

While on Facebook, there are a ton of community from SEA, East Asia, Africa, Middle East, and so on.

Also, Facebook Lite makes the poorest people in my country to be able to access social media without using too many internet quota.

The variation of groups is far beyond any social media, even Reddit or any other community site. You can get thousands of variation of Minecraft groups that exactly suits your community needs. Or maybe just a city chicken fried seller community.

[–] hefejefe@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Don’t use their app. Web only.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Also, don't use their website.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago

When you share with Facebook, you share with Trump.

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

And don't let their Like buttons and cookies exist in other websites too

[–] realitista@lemmy.world 119 points 5 days ago (4 children)

People still use the Facebook spyware app on their phone?

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 81 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Young people have Instagram spyware on their phones and old people have Facebook spyware.

[–] hietsu@sopuli.xyz 61 points 4 days ago (6 children)

Forgot WhatsApp there, de facto messaging app in my part of globe, be it young or old…

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[–] lath@lemmy.world 19 points 5 days ago

Oh so many.

[–] Pirate@feddit.org 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

More people use Facebook today than in 2015 when you were using it.

About 2x more people.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Is that mainly in India and Southeast Asia? For some people there Facebook is “the internet”, almost like a modern day AOL. Zuck would jizz himself if he could send you free trial CDs twice a week packed with his spyware.

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[–] sixty@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Crazy framing

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"Nice dick bro, ever wondered how it would look in a Studio Ghibli movie?"

[–] LogicalDrivel@sopuli.xyz 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That brings up a good point though. Based on just the screenshot here, it seems like the user wont have a choice of what gets uploaded. People keep some pretty raunchy photos on their phone sometimes. Even kids might have some questionable photos. This is just asking for trouble.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

How long will it take for a sfw kid picture with pink cloths or a splash of red to be misinterpreted, generated and tied to that user? There was already a time on youtube when blood red cloths were getting people demonetized for gore.

[–] MisterMoo@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago

If you’re still on Facebook, you’re probably not aware of what this means or why it’s a bad thing.

[–] besselj@lemmy.ca 69 points 5 days ago (5 children)

No telling what else they do with your pictures once they're on Meta's servers. Literal spyware (as if it hasn't already been for a long time).

Imagine having your nudes accidentally ghiblified, with the originals stored indefinitely on Meta's servers.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 5 days ago

Imagine Palantir connecting to it and when you apply for a job denying you that due to that specific photo.

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[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 52 points 4 days ago
[–] morph3ous@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is just gross. Just another privacy invasion from the company that decided to track and de-anonymize people around the internet even while those people were doing all the right things to prevent it.

https://lifehacker.com/tech/meta-apps-have-been-covertly-tracking-android-users-web-activity-for-months

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The distressing thing for me is knowing that a lot of my friends (and exes) are exactly the sort of people that'll just absent-mindedly click OK without reading it and share every single photo they've ever taken of me; photos which Facebook's facial recognition will easily tag.

[–] DiskCrasher@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

This is exactly what they expect to happen. Who reads the fine print?

[–] ThePiedPooper@discuss.online 54 points 5 days ago

Fuck Facebook. Fuck Meta. Fuck Zuckerberg. Fuck the oligarchs. Fuck LLMs/AI. Eat the Rich.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] pogmommy@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

God that's ridiculous... the image hash depends on the image not having changed at all from the one uploaded by the user. If they're screenshotted and cropped, or sent via a messaging platform that compresses them, they'll be visually similar enough to not matter, and different enough to have a different hash. So, Zuck gets a free peek at your your nudes, and all you get is a false sense of security.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 4 points 3 days ago

Yes and no, there are specific image hashing algorithms that attempt to add a likeness score.

These are already used with in the cloud to combat CSAM

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 7 points 3 days ago

Well look on the bright side. AI is about to become really good at drawing penises under fat bellies.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (4 children)

don't have Facebook on your phone?

better yet, don't have Facebook?

zero sympathy for anyone caught in this, you've all been warned for at least a decade on what supporting Facebook means, why get upset about this now?

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

My mom has facebook and also has my photos.

Unless we can get EVERYONE to respect each others' privacy, arsoning meta ceo until next one gets scared is the only option.

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

I don't have many pictures of myself on my own phone. Most pictures of me are on the phones of the people who took them.

[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The LAST thing I'd do with my mobile phone is install Facebook or Instagram. What a nightmare.

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 17 points 4 days ago

Unless you run a custom ROM, like LineageOS or GrapheneOS, you most probably have some Meta apps installed at system level.

This is Meta Services, as a system app which can only be disabled, on my work Samsung.

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Problem is if you have family on other countries most use WhatsApp for everything, it’s hard for some to not have any Meta app.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 31 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Facebook works perfectly fine in browser, there's literally no need for that shit app.

[–] Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It actually doesn't, they lock you out of messenger unless you're using the app

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Get thee to messenger.com then. Save it as a PWA and its like having the app but you give Meta as little as possible.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

messenger.com does not work on mobile, except if you switch your browser to desktop mode. It's quite hard to use it, even lots of text become smaller, so lots of people wouldn't keep using that

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[–] DarkSideOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

I bet a lot of people will slow because they will not read it or not really understand what they are accepting. Some will even share the new AI creating as something nice while they are giving up their private photos to Meta

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

Facebook is just socially accepted malware.

[–] 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com 10 points 4 days ago

Because plenty of people care very little about data or security but see all those people on there... so explaining how it is bad matters little as they've used facebook for over a decade

[–] thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

Nb4 a "bug" causes that setting to be true for all users just like with the cambridge analitica scandal

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