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Quote from Izuno

2 hours ago, Izuno said: Yeah I had a similar experience. Then a couple weeks ago there was this facebook outage for less than a day. On my phone it said I needed to re-authenticate or whatever to log back in to use the app. Same in my primary browser that I had normally been using to access facebook from my computer. I never did log in to either again, only able to access facebook in a separate secure browser (i mean probably slightly more secure but whom are we kidding here?).

tl;dr: I have cut my facebook time the past few weeks to an average of 2 minutes a day, if that.

Life is so much better now.

I had a similar experience with books. I used to read a lot of books back in the day, until I discovered the internet. Since then I stopped reading books. Life is so much better now. I'm glad I ended my addiction.

Some addictions are good. Depends on what you get out of it. I personally find Instagram to be much more pleasant and less toxic than Facebook. They attract different kinds of people. Most of my friends have moved away from Facebook a long time ago. There are things a platform can do to incentivise quality content. Instagram does that pretty well.

You guys seen The Social Dilemma (and The Great Hack)?

There are people even previously employed in these companies that work and advocate to minimise the time spent.

Disconnect (2012) was a good film about how people get caught up and the risks of online bullying.

As for usage of these networks, as soon as the functions to monitor how much you use certain apps and services was available on my phone, I immediately set Facebook to 20 min a day - which I almost never reach, when I do is mostly because of looking up stuff on Marketplace. But before that I had already started logging off the thing every time I used it, so whenever I compulsively went to it on my computer, I would have to pause, think and most times close the tab. I also had already removed all notifications, Lock Screen, badges etc.

Now when I open it I check my notifications and often close after that. It’s hilarious to see how the algorithm is trying to get me interested, notifying me of different things.

~@Human Doctor not sure how you find Instagram less toxic, there’s been plenty of noise about how it’s even more dangerous for kids than Facebook, that the bullying is even worse.

They were running an experiment of removing the “like” function, but not sure if it’s gone past that, haven’t used it in ages.

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You are no match for my "Shtyle"

Quote from Poofoge

On 11/3/2021 at 8:22 PM, Poofoge said: Any update regardless the metaverse?

Zuck is torn between 2 options

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and

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I always find it very cocky when some big company takes a commonly used word and uses it in their branding. I search the word "fortnight" and Google be like, did you mean fortnite?

They already started the rebranding!

Ahahah fuck you Zuck

Why would I go to Iceland if I can just go to Basalt?

It's completely immersive, the water is wet (you just can't touch it), there are humans to connect with (and shoot in the head, which you can't do in real iceland), there's moss, sky, rocks, and a waterfall, which look very real. The only thing missing is live animals, but that's compensated by all the live humans walking and shooting around the settlement. I can stay here forever. Or not.

Also, they better have some really good smart glasses in the works if they're advertising all of this AR stuff.

"The future will be made by us." Not by you, by us. You have no say in it. We're turning off the comments and hiding the dislikes.

The inventor of PlayStation thinks the metaverse is pointless