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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 hour ago

What a fucking loser.

[–] HellsBelle 22 points 1 hour ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)
Virtue signaling is a good thing. The problem is lack of virtue, not presence of signals.
[–] [email protected] 3 points 45 minutes ago

Zuckerberg reportedly decided to do away with censorship mechanisms at Meta after a seemingly innocuous photo that he posted on Facebook in November 2023 about the surgery that was performed on his left anterior cruciate ligament failed to go viral,

pathetic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 49 minutes ago

I never understood that phrase. If you admit there is virtue to your opponents actions isn't that just certifying you are wrong regardless of the opponents intentions?

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

As opposed to signalling that you have none.

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

Yes, now tell me the problem with that

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

Even if they are, they still have fucking virtues, unlike your robotic ass, Zuck.

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

ROFL I’m signaling the virtue of my privacy kept safe by escaping Meta and not being on a platform hosted by a deranged billionaire. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 hours ago

Says the guy who suddenly started hitting all the typical shithead slogans and talking point as soon as it seemed beneficial.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 hours ago

It's called being a political consumer, you dipshit

[–] southsamurai 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I'll be glad to signal my foot up his ass

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago

Wait until Ouch My Balls is over

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

Mark Zuckerberg the chicken fucker?

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

His AI is picking from random internet phrases to see if it unlocks a reward function.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 7 hours ago

I'm just trying to save his neutered business from my feminine energy.

[–] [email protected] 103 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

isn't virtue signaling doing something good but just for shows? so he is implying that quitting fb is a good thing to do

[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 hours ago

Yes. But he’s so dumb he doesn’t realize it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago

When someone does something you don't want them to do, but the reason you don't want them to do it is completely invalid - that's when you call it virtue signalling.

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

Making a unnecessary public statement that they are quitting prob is, I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago

I don't know, sounds like he's just virtue signaling to me.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago
[–] atzanteol 67 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

He looks more and more like a cult leader every day.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I recently commented somewhere that the more Elon Musk leans into MAGA the more he looks like a Sith lord and the affliction appears to be hitting Mark Zuckerberg too lately.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 hours ago

Always two there are. The Master, and the Apprentice.

[–] Peppycito 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I was thinking he looks like the bad guy in Dune in that milk bath.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Peppycito 3 points 5 hours ago

Ya! That guy.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 hours ago

"vote with your wallet and you can affect a corporation!"

Also:

"Fuck you, I'm entitled to your participation (your data) or you're a virtue signaler leftist baby."

I wish I wasn't an atheist, at least I'd have some comfort in knowing pieces of shit get what they deserve. Instead they just become billionaires and live amazing lives.

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

What Mark is really saying you will be back. if anyone is still on Facebook after all these years he is probably right. He also knows if anything that does take it out. He will just buy it up and once again those people will be back under meta's control. He has too much money. The only answer is to stop using identity based social media.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

That's the beauty of the fediverse. It cannot be bought anymore than someone can buy "the internet".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

My mom moved away from meta because of this asshat. It seems now everything is possible. She went from WhatsApp to signal and Facebook to Bluesky.

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

Good for her I'm glad one person got away

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

Me too. But I'm mostly surprised.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

I signaled that virtue a very, very long time ago.

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

I've been boycotting Facebook since before it was cool.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 hours ago

I did mine like ten years ago.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 hours ago

Why would anyone quit adult daycare? Unless they are in the content moderation mines in Africa getting ptsd from seeing the horrors of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

It's weird to realize I would wait in line for like 45 minutes up piss on Zuckerberg's grave, should the legal opportunity ever arise.

Just a thought for his next of kin to consider, in due time...

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

And how much extra to take a shit on it?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

“Meta has us in a chokehold. They make money off our presence in order to continue to be in business and yet it’s too difficult for people to leave,” Makichen wrote.

Difficult? How? I'm pretty sure I still have an account on Facebook from it's early days, but I haven't logged in to it in more than a decade. Friends and family can reach me in other ways, like email or better yet a phone call.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They are talking about their business. The massage place I go to is primarily thru Facebook. They have their own site but it was easier to just request a appointment.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Many businesses have dead websites now, as all the visibility is just through Facebook and Google Maps.

It’s very different than Twitter, where most business use (outside of influencers and influence campaigns) amounts to status updates that can be given elsewhere.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Mark Zuckerberg is a dork.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

I quit Facebook and Instagram years ago, long before it was called Meta. Fuck that goon.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 hours ago

Sorry Zuck, but "virtue" is not the message all those people making hand gestures at you are trying to signal.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder what he would say about me never having used Facebook. or any of his other "services"?

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

"We have your data anyway, sucks to suck."

Just like they have mine too. Because we are the odd ones out. Almost everyone else uses that crap. We get identified in photos someone else uploaded. Fingerprinted when we get to a friend's house and auto-join their WiFi. Buy from a business that hands out metrics for "analysis." Click on shared links that weren't stripped of referrer codes. All those tiny data points that mean nothing on their own but in aggregate let data brokers know us better than we know ourselves.

I hate this fucking timeline.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

He whines, signalling his "virtues"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago

Someone needs to contraption this fucking guy asap

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