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[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

like in this app used by 2 billion unique users globally?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
  1. Announces moderation team gutted

  2. Announces that "community notes" will handle moderation

  3. Make a bunch of moves to purge anyone in the community that might actually provide a factual "community note"

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

Damn, I didn’t think of it quite like that, but yup, that’s exactly the result.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago

I quit Facebook because it stopped showing updates from my friends and groups I subscribed to. I couldn't care less about Zuck's political leanings as long as his product had any use for me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Anyone who claims someone is virtue signalling is virtue signalling. Except this one comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 33 minutes ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

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

Me too, since 2014, before it was a thing, according to Google trends. Does that make us hipsters? We did it before it was cool.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 hours ago

Anyone who stops using my product is a poo poo head

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

I think it would also be fair to say that anyone who doesn't is also virtue signaling.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours 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] 3 points 2 hours ago

You've been virtue signalling all this while!?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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] 1 points 1 hour ago

Perhaps a mediocracy?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 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] 4 points 3 hours 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] 18 points 5 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 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] 5 points 6 hours ago

Don't virtue signal me, bro!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 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] 31 points 7 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 5 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 3 hours 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] 16 points 7 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 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 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 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 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 7 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] 4 points 5 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] 8 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

maybe he just feels comfortable letting the facade drop

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Your hubris is showing, Fuckerberg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 6 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] 31 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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] 38 points 12 hours ago

Why should I care what a self confessed pedophile thinks?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 12 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 10 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] 1 points 5 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] 13 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 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] 39 points 14 hours ago

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

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