MeetInPotatoes @ MeetInPotatoes @lemmy.world

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Facebook doesn't give a shit about its users and treats them and their data as a crop to harvest. On Meta platforms, you're the product. On the fediverse, you're just another user, free to do what you want. Disgust is indeed an emotion, and I'm 100% fine with being disgusted with Meta.

Same, I was only donating $2 a month but I'm not alone in finding this completely unacceptable. I applied at lemmy.ml. It's the scorpion and the frog with these people suggesting we should just wait and see.

"~Let's see if Zuck doesn't act like an anti-competitive asshole this time" <--where the hell is the logic in that?!

Or they type fast and have a lot to say /shrug

Agreed about influencers. Meta wouldn't be doing this at all if they didn't have a plan (or multiple plans) to monetize it. The whole reason I left Reddit and plan to leave Twitter was that I very much dislike having any part of my online enjoyment at the mercy of the whims of gigantic corporate assholes that think they are far more important than they are. Meta has been an awful and abusive actor in the tech world, why would any freedom-loving person want anything to do with them in a freedom-loving space?! Why would anyone just wait and see what they do this time to decide they're an awful company with only their profits in mind and no qualms about making those profits at a cost to its users?!

"Break the loop and you break the chains."

Nobody actually said that to my knowledge but putting quotes around it lends some legitimacy. 

In what universe are you living in that meta does not have a history chock full of bad conduct?! Frog, meet scorpion.

Oh, and stop misusing "cringe" while you're at it.

Interesting, mine was 5 seconds long and muted.

It's not just one behavior, it's a continuous pattern of behavior. If you want to give them a clean slate in every new instance, that's your choice. At some point it's the scorpion and the frog. Whether you consider it an ethical argument or not, it's basic common sense that Meta's pattern of behavior will continue absent any evidence to the contrary.

And ad hominem is an argument against a person, not a company. My argument is citing their past behavior which would not be an ad hominem argument even if I'd cited Zuckerberg specifically. "Because Zuck is greedy." would be ad hominem.

They of course have no interest in growing the fediverse as an independent alternative, they want to use it for their own ends. They want to serve people the fediverse's free content under their own umbrella and rules (and ads of course) to monetize stuff that doesn't belong to them, or anyone else. It's all pretty straightforward greed and capitalizing on an opportunity.

What makes ours ethical and their unethical??

Their actual history. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.

Bad analogy, it would be like meeting up with all your ex-girlfriend's other former partners and all bitching about that shared ex because you have that thing in common.

ChatGPT is not having any of the troll bait lol.

That's not why at all. Watch the video @danielton posted below.

But maybe we hate Kidney beans.

Samesies, I wish someone at Reddit would leak how many users deleted their account on July 1st and leading up to it compared to a normal month of people coming and going.