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[–] [email protected] 10 points 57 minutes ago

Anyone who stops using my product is a poo poo head

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I quit Facebook years ago because it's a shitty website full of spam.

IG has gone down the same path. It's like 70% suggested/sponsored content that's worthless at best if not disinfo, propaganda, fraud, etc.

Fash make trash.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

You've been virtue signalling all this while!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 15 minutes ago

Well then, since 2016 I've been a Virtue signaling mother fucker. Fuck Zuck!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago

20 years ago, a piece of shit like Mark Zuckerberg would have used a similarly meaningless term like “political correctness” instead. Made no sense then and makes no sense now. What is the problem exactly? Is there something wrong with having an ethical framework and applying it consistently? Or, having standards? Using this framing, any ideological viewpoint is inherently bad, including the nihilistic and hypocritical one that Zuckerberg himself is expressing here. It’s all just nonsense, and further evidence that the economy that plied this asshole with so much wealth is anything but a meritocracy.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago

The kind of people who would be bothered by being accused of "Virtue Signaling" are also the kind of people who are aligned with the rise of fascism and enabling of racism on the platform. But do go on acknowledging that working for Meta is itself an immoral position.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I quit before virtue signalling was a term that people used to describe things they don't like. I wonder what he would have called it back around 2012?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 hours ago

So he has confirmed that Meta is, as whole, a negative hasn't he?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Why didn't he just say anyone who quits Meta smells like poo-poo and pee-pee? That would at least be funny.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

LMFAO virtue signal deez nuts. Fuckerberg.

I haven't had Facebook in 10 years lol. I don't have a vote on this one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Don't virtue signal me, bro!

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 hours ago

What I find delicious is that he is implicitly stating that being on any Meta platform is not virtuous.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Zuck is a fucking piece a shit. But the headline and article misrepresents what he was saying. His actual quote was "Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling" and appears to be directed towards users, not Meta employees.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Nah man, clearly you missed the memo that we now just take every statement out of it's obvious context and straw man the shit out of everything.

It hurts every real argument against these people when people make stupid arguments like this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It’s kinda crazy how fast he’s unraveling into the right-wing griftersphere. Does Thiel or Putin have something on him?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

maybe he just feels comfortable letting the facade drop

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

Exactly. Zucc was always a POS. I mean, FB got its start so he could rate the "hotties" on campus...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I virtue signaled 7 years ago when the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, realizing that Facebook is a seedy company that can't be trusted.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Same, also, Zuckerberg has always been a sketch ball who does anti-social and user hostile things with his app, so it was just years of being fed up with that. 2017 was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago

"Signaled" my "virtue" in 2016. Fuck you, zuck.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

No its called having morals and standing by them. Virtue signaling is when you pay lip-service to a cause and don't walk the walk. Almost like zuck doing his dei stuff when it was popular and doing a 180 as soon as it becomes slightly unpopular.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

I think it is quite beautiful to see how much <some politically, even if self-perceived, powerful person who is a moral trashheap> falls into the usual strong narcisism tendencies of projection.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

When I was a teen, I thought anyone who joins it is virtue signaling.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Your hubris is showing, Fuckerberg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

I'm glad I'm not the only one who calls him that. Same think.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 hours ago

he means 'is showing virtue'. And he's right.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

“Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling, but I think the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better”

So he's stripping away protections for marginalised groups to appeal to the "vast majority" who, by definition, don't need these protections and are in no way negatively impacted by their existence. Got it, and fuck you very much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Lotta reasons and responses here i plan on using for when i finally make my "fuck you all i quit" post this weekend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

This is exactly the kind of thing a loser would say. Loser CEOs are always whining about people leaving their platform. Winners keep their head down and build something their users actually enjoy using.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

The title alone shows admittance that leaving Meta signals virtue and good character.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago

isn't this giant sack of shit laying off like 1000 employees?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 hours ago

Why should I care what a self confessed pedophile thinks?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Will this decade be known as "the decade when billionares spiralled out of control"? First Musk then this android.

[–] captain_aggravated 17 points 8 hours ago

Imagine what Rockefeller and Carnegie would have tweeted about. You know they were crass, detached from reality hemorrhoid clusters, they just didn't get to spew it to a global audience 900 times a day.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 hours ago

Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn't worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that's what you're thinking. Definitely not.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 12 hours ago

Joke's on him. I quit before it was Meta.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Nah these billionaires don’t align on the modern left wing right wing spectrum, they are all a special kind of hardcore libertarian. The only ideology they have is that they should be able to do whatever they want to earn their next billion. Him appeasing right wingers fits his MO, but doesn’t make him a right winger.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 hours ago

He wasn't. Mark used to be a sweet kid, but he's been radicalised by all the shit he reads on Facebook. It's not too late, Mark, delete your social media profiles, stay away from that poisonous hellhole!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.

Second, that's kinda rich coming from the guy who's been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago

Maybe saying you’re quitting meta is “virtue signalling” but actually quitting is virtuous.

[–] GrumpyDuckling 1 points 6 hours ago

Why did they cover the $900k watch in the image?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 14 hours ago

Ah yes, the feed starting with an ad, followed by a reels module alternating between soft porn and dogs, followed by bots and more ads, maybe interspersed with a couple of posts by people whose names I recognize for good measure, are well worth my time. No need to virtue signal, I'm hooked!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 15 hours ago

Kind of like wearing a red MAGA hat.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 15 hours ago

Why, yes, Im signaling that I have virtues, which is why I am not on your site Zuckerboi.

[–] [email protected] 173 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Banning gender-neutral bathrooms and spinning to anti-woke isn't virtue signalling...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Out of the loop here, so let me get this straight: Did they build gender-neutral bathrooms that are now gendered by placing a sticker on the door? What on earth could be the purpose of that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 56 minutes ago

gendered by placing a sticker on the door

We have that at my work, but they are still gender-neutral bathrooms when the other one is in use and someone needs to use it. You can’t really ungender-neutral those bathrooms.

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Using the phrase "virtue signaling" is virtue signaling

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