Summary
Meta’s recent shift to right-leaning policies, including ending fact-checking in the U.S., scaling back content moderation, and allowing anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, has sparked boycotts and a user exodus.
The company also disbanded its diversity, equity, and inclusion team, drawing criticism.
Prominent users like director Cord Jefferson and nonprofits like Equal Access Public Media have left or reduced activity on Meta platforms.
Many are migrating to alternatives such as Bluesky, Amigahood, and Tumblr, while some remain trapped due to Meta’s dominance in communication and business.
If you stay on facebook/whatsapp/instagram/threads you’re kind of complicit… It might be convenient, fun or profitable to be complicit, but you’re the product that they sell; you’re the social network keeping other people there; you’re the reach for the ads and misinformation.
Either you leave, or you’re helping zuck.
Tell people how to reach you. Contact them once in a while if you actually want to stay in touch.
Same thing as Harris trying to cater to MAGA with anti-immigrant rhetoric and all that. They already hate her, so it doesn’t win them over, but alienates the followers.
I have a hard time believing boomers are leaving FB for this.
They only leave when they die which is pretty often. If this election has showed anything the very young are right leaning. Meta just filling the funnel with whoever they can get.
I’m still frustrated that everything people sell is just on Facebook marketplace now. No one uses stuff like Craigslist anymore, and it’s super frustrating cause I periodically wanna get something used but really hate that everything is just listed on facebook
We have KSL Classifieds here in Utah. Also covers parts of Idaho and Colorado.
I moved from Craigslist to OfferUp and apps like that. I’d only go on FB marketplace for maybe a used car, and only in this area because there are so many Boomer car heads out here selling decent shit for super low, and they probably only know about FB marketplace.
Thankfully a lot of people here in Canada still use Kijiji over Marketplace.
Try shopgoodwill.com
The company that still fights to pay disabled people less than minimum wage? Probably better than suggesting Amazon, but still not that great an alternative.
There’s also Nextdoor app if you’re looking for local stuff that’s free and for sale. It’s full of old people posting random shit just like Facebook tho.
I dunno man, I didn’t like my time on Nextdoor. Those people were some of the NIMBYest and casually racist people I’ve seen.
Meta/Zuck have been far right for years, they are just wearing their hoods now because Trump is looking to the big tech companies to be his State Media.
And people wonder why tiktokers aren’t moving to Instagram after the app ban
Tbf, people should have moved on from Instagram/Facebook from years ago tbh, esp as there are decent, ethical alternatives out there but as usual, people don’t really care unless it affects them personally or their social rep.
The fact that people are flocking over to RedNote, Lemon8, Tumblr, Bluesky and other platforms, despite them being problematic either due to privacy issues/ceos stances on political issues like trans rights etc or the techbros involve want to destroy the environment, proves the point itself.
The people that are moving out of TikTok etc are literally making no difference to stopping the rise of fascism, besides making themselves feel better about themselves about the whole thing.
Still an improvement to weaken zuck and musk though.
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy the moral panic caused by this, at least a little. It shows that the pendulum is indeed swinging back from the woke left toward a more reasonable, rational center.
Disagreeing with things like DEI programs doesn’t make someone far-right - it just means they’re not far-left. You might not like it, but the reality is that the vast majority of people don’t agree with many of the views that are overrepresented on left-wing social media platforms like Lemmy. Doubling down on it just means losing more elections.
Gaslighting LGBTQ folks. Misogynistic stances towards women. Nationalist stances towards immigration.
Seems far-right to me.
If you have a good faith argument as to how that’s not Nazi shit other than, ‘DEI hires are woke’, I’d love to hear it. Because it seems like you based your whole argument on a very narrow understanding of the situation.
Their name is Free_Opinions, we definitely got what we paid for.
They’ve posted about a dozen times since I stated I’d love to hear good faith arguments beyond DEI hires are woke.
From their bio… “I say unpopular things but never something I know to be untrue. Always open to hear good-faith counter arguments. My goal is to engage in dialogue that seeks truth rather than scoring points.”
Meta literally changed the rules specifically so you can call LGBTQ people mentally ill without repercussions.
Trying to convince anyone these changes are not far-right is just telling on yourself.
Tell me that you don’t understand why the republicans won.
They didn’t win because people agree with the neo-nazi adjacent right (which, I bet you’re in denial about, but republicans always are), they won because the Democrats abandoned the working class and stupid people thought the Republicans would be better for them despite all empirical evidence.
You’re right tho, disagreeing with dei programs doesn’t make you a Nazi, it just makes you willing bedfellows with them.
You seem to be making lots of assumptions here. You could’ve just asked if you want to know what I think about something.
I did ask and you haven’t responded. DEI hires are only a small fraction of what Meta is doing. But you hyperfocused on it while ignoring gaslighting LGBTQ folks, misogynistic stances towards women, and nationalist stances towards immigration.
How is that not Nazi shit?
Is your idea of the “rational” center removing fact checking, reducing content moderation on political topics (which if history is of any indication means letting far right content to spread) and allowing the use of hateful speech against people you don’t like? I guess the fact that you think DEI is a far-left idea does indicate that you do think that would be the center.
Imagine thinking that having a diverse workforce is a good thing is a “far-left idea” and not just helpful for your business because it gives you different perspectives into different possible customers…
Accepting diversity as part of life and not making life more miserable for people just because they don’t look like you or have your same taste, gender or religious beliefs shouldn’t be far left or far anything. It’s just the decent thing to do. It’s ironic how in the US the political side that aligns themselves more closely with radical Christian beliefs is so against that view
Oh I agree, but DEI initiatives are very pro-business specifically. They help increase profits. And these late-stage capitalist assholes don’t even get it.
That part I don’t know. I’m not saying it’s not true, I certainly see the reasoning for why it should be good for business. But the classic conservative counter-argument is that you shouldn’t need to regulate it, because The Mythical Free Market should ensure that companies with a more diverse workforce out-compete the others.
So I prefer to think that sometimes you do things that are right just because you think they are right and even if they cost you. And as part of that, you vote with your wallet and maybe use products that are slightly less shiny and convenient than others because the companies behind them treat people more nicely. And then the Mythical Free Market does also start taking care of things and allowing these nicer companies to survive and even out-compete the Metas of this world. (But we’re all here discussing on Lemmy, so probably I’m already preaching to the choir on this one)
Workforce diversity was touched on in my college business courses (I went to work in the non-profit sector).
It’s a benefit to companies for all the reasons squid stated. Nixing it is virtue signaling towards the fascist regime.
I’m really happy to hear that, thanks! I mean, not the nixing part… the “not being a complete asshole is even good for business”
Fascism is going to win.
As people leave these platforms - permitting a welcome space for lies, hate speech, bigotry, and zealotry to flourish without consequence - history will recall, this was when the spark of fascism was given the last breathe of oxygen it required.
I don’t mean to excuse Meta for their unforgivable ElonTrump-influenced actions but running away is not going to win the fight you think you’re avoiding. That is, unless you all really commit and make it economically unfeasible for Meta to continue this policy.
Meta is successful because people can promote their small and local businesses. Because money can be made from ‘likes’. Because of the algorithm. Because people can get their news inline with their family photos. It’s everything. The fediverse has a long way to go to offer a seamless migration for users’ addiction to these platforms.
Meta is successful because … of the algorithm. Because people can get their news inline with their family photos.
From what I’ve overheard, that’s exactly what everyone hates about Meta
It’s not like staying was such a success in the fight against fascism.
Meta is successful because people can promote their small and local businesses. Because money can be made from ‘likes’. Because of the algorithm. Because people can get their news inline with their family photos. It’s everything.
Everyone who leaves Meta reduces the value of their advertising just a little bit. If lots of people leave, it will make the company less profitable.
