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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 35 points 12 hours ago

It's called being a political consumer, you dipshit

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago (7 children)

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?

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] neuroneiro@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Wait until Ouch My Balls is over

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 145 points 16 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

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 66 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 20 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Papacito8400@lemmy.today 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 28 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Mark Zuckerberg the chicken fucker?

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 16 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] StopTouchingYourPhone@lemmy.world 31 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 83 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 57 points 16 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.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 37 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 13 hours ago

Ya! That guy.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 62 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 21 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 15 points 15 hours ago

I did mine like ten years ago.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 43 points 15 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.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 25 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 45 points 16 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...

And how much extra to take a shit on it?

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 19 points 14 hours ago
[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 points 13 hours ago (3 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.

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 16 points 12 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.

[–] lordnikon@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Good for her I'm glad one person got away

[–] RQG@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago

Me too. But I'm mostly surprised.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 10 hours ago

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

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 16 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.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 21 points 16 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.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 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.

[–] oo1@lemmings.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Stan showed how in southpark s14e04. It was very easy.

[–] bblkargonaut@lemmy.world 13 points 14 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.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 16 hours ago

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

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 12 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Mark Zuckerberg is a dork.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 11 points 16 hours ago

He whines, signalling his "virtues"

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 8 points 15 hours ago

watson387 says Mark Zuckerberg can 'go fuck himself'.

[–] nick@midwest.social 7 points 15 hours ago

Someone needs to contraption this fucking guy asap

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 15 hours ago

He said that some users might leave as a form of virtue signaling, not that all who leave will be virtue signaling.

Have there been cases of community notes being ineffective or wrong? I assume that community notes probably have some kind of system that can be abused, but I haven't seen it happen.

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