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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 05:23:57 JST Aral Balkan

   Threads is Instagram. Instagram is Facebook. Facebook is Meta. Meta is Mark Zuckerberg.

   Facebook was complicit in a literal genocide.

   Meta is a surveillance capitalist that exploits you for profit.

   Mark Zuckerberg straight up called you “dumb fucks” for trusting him.

   What’s it going to take for you to not help these assholes continue to fuck people over?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 15:19:13 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     • Dr. Mastodonocologist

     @Okanogen You literally wrote that on an alternative :)

     (And there are others folks are working on, including myself.)

   • Dr. Mastodonocologist (okanogen@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 15:19:14 JST Dr. Mastodonocologist

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     @aral
     Alternatives.

   • Danielle (violetathena@mastodonapp.uk)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 18:08:44 JST Danielle

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     @aral the masses flock to entertainment sometimes to their detriment since Ancient Rome. Blaming people for doing what humans do is extremely unproductive. The truth is that there’s no viable alternative atm that provides entertainment without exploitation. And no OSS platforms are quite obviously not a real answer at this stage.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 18:08:44 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Danielle

     @violetathena If only there was a free and open platform alternative on which you could have told me that :)

     (I’m not having a go at you, I do agree we need easy to use alternatives. That’s what I’m working on myself. But the goal shouldn’t be to provide some shallow entertainment. It’s not a win in my book to create a digital Colosseum when the very concept of personhood – and along with it, human rights and democracy – teeter on the precipice.)

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 18:26:10 JST Aral Balkan

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     • dodothedev :arch_linux::emacs:

     @dodothedev https://lmddgtfy.net/?q=facebook%20genocide

   • dodothedev :arch_linux::emacs: (dodothedev@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 18:26:11 JST dodothedev :arch_linux::emacs:

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     @aral
     I'm trying to make this sound non-combative, but can't think how, so I'll be blunt (but please don't read any malice in it, it's a genuine question):
     How were Meta involved in a genocide?

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 16:02:00 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Duco

     @duco Trillion-dollar surveillance capitalists don’t need free advocates, Duco, they have enough paid ones.

   • Duco (duco@norden.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 16:02:01 JST Duco

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     @aral Meta allowed Instagram users to use Threads as well. If a Gmail user starts to use Google drive, is that a new Google Drive user? So is Meta really attracting new users to Threads? I would think that mostly existing Meta users tried out Threads.

   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 16:16:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Duco

     @duco You made one possible case in your post, which, if accepted at face value (not that I believe it would be given that it is a separate product – if it wasn’t why would it need to have a separate name/exist separately to Instagram), could enable Meta to sidestep the antitrust regulation (“it’s not a different product so we are not using our monopoly position anticompetitively”).

     My point was that that’s the sort of argument an advocate would make.

   • Duco (duco@norden.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 16:16:17 JST Duco

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     @aral true, but I haven't seen an advocate answering your posts, so why are you mentioning that? 🤔