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Instagram... It's not great but all my friends are there. And it also has kpop.
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Haven’t had Facebook in at least 5 years, probably more. I had a Reddit account for 13 years, but got banned for saying I wished MTG would trip and swallow her own head. They said I was inciting violence. Fuck Reddit. I had an Instagram account for a while and I posted joke pictures of random everyday objects with lots of filters. After insta became a super battery drain spy box app, I deleted app and account and never looked back. Never got into twitter, certainly wont now. Lenny seems to be one of the few platforms that isn’t totally ruined by shitty people and companies.
Lost an 11 year account on the other site for reporting a thread where some 'frienworld' style fashi bois were planning a hit and run at a protest the next week.
20 mins later my account was permabanned for 'ban evasion' despite that being my only reddit account ever.
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I don't actively use it, but I don't see the point in deleting my account? My HOA is only on a Facebook group, so it's the only place I can go to check for updates on some stuff (typically trash day getting moved, neighborhood pool stuff, etc). That's the only use. My understanding is that Facebook tracks me even without an account so doesn't really seem like I'm gaining anything other than good feelings by deleting my account.
It's not like I've gone out of my way to delete my old Myspace or xanga accounts either, I just stop using them.
Yeah, there's more than a handful of things that are only on Facebook that I'm not going to give the effort of trying to get people to move to something else. Even the kids school pages.
Facebook has a monopoly in many areas and they know it.
I hate the fact that I use meta but I hate musky boi more so that’s how I justify it
I don't understand this.. the way I see it Hitler was a pos, but the beetle was still a great car loved by many.
Holy false equivalence batman.
No, excuses, I use FB. I’ve turned my feed into mostly hobby and other interest groups so that it’s more like reddit or the Fediverse. I viciously “x” any ads I see as soon as they show up. Seems it takes a bit for FB to look at my account and try to tailor me some ads so I get a week give or take of ad-free fb. It’s actually a useful social media if you force it to conform to what you want and make it hard for FB to abuse you.
Tried Threads, don’t like the format, and the comments and questions are every bit as stupid as FB reels or YT shorts. Insta sucks.
I only still have fb for 2 reasons.
Work contacts.
And FB Marketplace.
I never use it. Never browse it. Never post.or comment. Don't even scroll it.
I'm of an age where everyone I know uses Facebook and have lost appetite for new social media.. it's effective enough to communicate and post events etc.. if it's not broke..
For context my social media journey started with geocities ( many here weren't even a glint in their fathers eye then 😂)
I've done geocities > bebo > MySpace > Facebook + instagram + twitter + reddit .. now I just do Facebook, instagram( mostly for cars and bikes)and lemmy.
At this point I am social media'd out.
If you're ever a parent, and you have one or more kids in school, and they engage in extracurricular activities - you'll be surprised how many amateur sports clubs and similar places communicate predominantly or even exclusively through Facebook.
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I have up FaceFuck after Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
They brainwashed people into voting against their own interests by "Targeted Advertising" which is basically brain washing.
Of course nothing came of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, and I can't do anything about that as a Plebian, so I just left.
I left Reddit when they took my favourite app. I used it to Doomscroll and that wasn't great for my mental health, so it was a no-brainer
So Lemmy and only Lemmy for me. I got over my addiction to social media by taking up the Rubik's Cube.
I'm currently working on getting an average solve under 30 seconds...
So if you use your social media time to do something productive instead, you can do some crazy shit
The only reason I go to Reddit anymore are the credible defense megathreads. It is the last subreddit that has not been taken over by partisan botfarms pushing an agenda.
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Sadly Facebook groups superseded many hobby forums.
Some have moved to discord which is only marginally better.
If someone would make a platform that made it easy to move FB groups to a more open platform they’d be a billionaire
I keep Facebook around specifically because that’s how I know what is going on in my area, both with news, and events
For staying up to date on my local shops and events, Facebook is just the easiest and more reliable option.
Not sure we should be shaming people about what social media they use lol
We should and I will.
we absolutely should. facebook is fucking evil, and getting everything to move off it, damaging the network effect, is important for creating a more free and open information ecosystem.
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I just got on Lemm and my reason fro staying on FB is for family friends, and advertising.
Facebook marketplace is the only reason I still have a Facebook account.
Tbh Lenmy has a lot of old users. Not a horrible thing but there are parts of Reddit I miss within my age group.
yeah but those are mostly gone or otherwise unusable now, one way or the other. that's kind of the problem.
I'm good never using it again - you can only take your aunts garbage political takes for so long...