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John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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this post was submitted on 24 Feb 2025
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lemmy:
My guess is the writers are here among us and don't want it to become a cesspool. It's their safe haven. Just a guess though.
If we're strictly speaking about "Meta alternatives" that means we're looking specifically for replacements for Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Threads. "Just don't have Facebook", Signal, Pixelfed and Mastodon/Bluesky are direct replacements for those. Lemmy is a Reddit replacement which doesn't have anything to do with Mark "I am actually a lizard" Zuckerberg.
I mean come on, we've got weird uncles with questionable perspectives.
Sucker-berg: Vampire City.
Pretty sure we're a joke to everybody
Sure but only for those with no sense of reality or true humor let alone any truth and of itself. At the end, they're the Carrion Comfort for the parasites directing them. If there's any humor, it's in us, discarding g the sense of care for those who ignored our attempt to help them survive what was obvious to us but in denial for them.
At the end of the day, we all had a choice somewhere along the paths we take. Kharma ensures our story matches what we learn, or what we refuse to.
No need to laugh at them. Laugh for them and learn from their mistakes because they're not likely to continue when they've refused to do such.