Meta and the No Kings backlash

How is there no discussion on this subreddit about this?

My Meta feeds are dominated by anti-Meta comments saying everyone needs to abandon Meta.

This seems like a good opportunity to start discussing and sharing some alternative social networks. Has anyone taken this as an opportunity to express solidarity against this blatant form of censorship?

The problem is that in order to get people to switch from Meta, you kind of have to pay a LOT of money to Meta to advertise.

This is also just the latest backlash against Meta after a series of moves by the company that has angered small business owners, page and group owners who now have to pay monthly fees to put links on their content (gimme a break), poor performance on their advertising channels, poor reach from some of their channels based on Meta's algorithm changes.

The 1984 style thought control is being thrown in all of our faces and it is unacceptable to me as a citizen to put up with it. So, I know this topic is widely covered, but I was surprised to not see any discussion specifically around this from this past week.

So i guess the question is .... what do we do about it?

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GWBrooks•3 days ago•6

They apologized and reinstated the account. They're a private company so their actions, even if they hadn't reversed them, would be legal. What is or isn't unacceptable to you as a citizen really doesn't factor in because your relationship with Meta is voluntary and at their pleasure. (Same as mine, same as everyone's.)

What you can do is what you can always do: Choose not to use the platform and/or build a better one.

HelloGizmo•3 days ago•3

Bring back MySpace

Chemical-Store1315•3 days ago•1

It's wild how quiet this sub has been on it, my feed's been a disaster zone of people yelling into the void about leaving, then scrolling Instagram five minutes later

Problem is the alternatives don't stick because nobody's friends are there yet, I tried setting up a Pixelfed account and it's just me and three photographers in Germany

The small business stuff you mentioned is the real breaking point though, I know someone who runs a bakery page and Meta's basically holding her customer base hostage with those link fees, it's absurd

What we actually do is the hard part, feels like we need some kind of coordinated "everyone logs off for a weekend" thing but getting enough people on board is like herding cats

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RockieK•3 days ago•1

Oh man, I just straight up abandoned meta and only use it as a "phone book".

Have gotten much of my life back from that scourge.

CheetahsNeverProsper•3 days ago•1

What year is it? Seems like this is a perennial “protest”… that’s why there’s no discussion. It’s not news anymore

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