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  1. BOTS & SCAMMERS ON FACEBOOK!!

    This is beyond annoying. Friend requests; love your book, can we talk; etc. So many of these comments and messages. What happened to social interactions with real people? For me, the platform has become pretty much useless.

    Anybody else notice the same?

    #bots #scammers #scam #scambaiting #security #Facebook #Facebooksucks #metasucks

  2. @heiseonline Als jemand, der momentan darum kämpft seinen gehackten Account bei facebook wieder zu bekommen: eigentlich sollte man die Finger von allem halten, was mit Meta zu tun hat.

    #facebook #support #nonexistent #nichtexistierend #facebooksucks #zuckerbergsucks

  3. I've seen a few people panicking about #Threads (for those who aren't aware, Threads is Facebook/Meta's new Twitter copycat, which happens to use the ActivityPub protocols that let it connect to the #fediverse), but frankly, I think the worry is a little overblown because the fediverse is, just by its sheer technical nature, hostile to any kind of corporate ecosystem taking over.

    The way I see it, there are really two possibilities:

    A) Threads takes off really quickly, gains a lot of users, people flock to it, but people who don't want a Facebook-owned social media app in their lives just kinda stay away from it, so nothing on #Mastodon really changes.
    B) Threads crashes and burns, no one uses it, people go back to searching for whatever other microblog-du-jour is in vogue at the time, and... nothing on Mastodon really changes.

    Zuck is setting up Threads as a competitor to #Twitter, not Mastodon. The worst they can really do is try to take over the architecture behind Mastodon (TootSuite, etc.), and even if they succeed in that, they can't really affect the overall health of the fediverse much.

    The biggest concern I've seen is "Zuck will make it so you can't see stuff from Threads unless you sign up for Threads yourself." And that would make about as much sense as Google saying "if a Gmail user sends you an email, you can only open their email if you sign up for Gmail" (which is to say, it would make no sense at all).

    The fediverse will destroy itself with petty infighting long before a big corporation (whose takeover the fediverse is explicitly designed to resist) destroys it.

    #facebooksucks #twittersucks