Whilst nothing new to me and many others, it is nice to see that everywhere people are reporting on the drop in engagement being seen across social media, especially on Meta owned platforms. I have…
Seems that Meta is in big trouble again, for trying but at the moment failing in its legal obligations. It seems that Meta tried to use an unlawful method for consent requests…. read more in…
Facebook is by far and away the largest social media platform in terms of numbers and engagement. Everybody knows about Facebook and what it offers – I don’t need to go over those again. But…
It appears that (at least in the UK) Facebook has removed the ability to download your photos from your facebook account right now. I know the feature was there but it isn’t now (well at…
Netflix paid Facebook $100 million to access private messages on the platform. This is a disgraceful abuse of privacy and is yet another massive reason why Meta should not be trusted… https://www.cyberkendra.com/2024/04/netflix-paid-facebook-to-access-users.html
Here is a list of some main instances that block threads currently. You may or may not wish to choose your instance based on this data or perhaps move! https://fedipact.veganism.social/
It is articles like this one that people need to understand what kind of corporation Meta/Facebook is, snooping on data from another service to help them crush that service is just downright awful… https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
There are many reasons why you would want to block Threads access to your data and posts on Mastodon – privacy and your data being used (as it is on other Meta apps/services) to train…
For anyone who wants to understand how Meta works, and their frankly awful hold on social media their threads app and platform no automagically mutes/blocks any talk of Pixelfed as it is an alternative their…
I have seen lots of people talking about the fediverse recently and the low numbers of users versus traditional platforms. This is the main reason I think that many dismiss platforms like Mastodon, Pixelfed and…
