Are you a Meta enjoyer?

  • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Nope. I never made an Instagram account. I used to be on fb all the time, but I deleted my account like 6 years ago and I don’t miss it whatsoever. Now unless you count watching YouTube videos, Lemmy is the only social media I’m on. And I’m a happier person for it.

  • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    C. None of the above

    I do have LinkedIn which I keep as a professional point of contact. But that is heavily filtered in what I post and what I bother reading.

    I also have a Mastadon account for following the infosec.exchange community. Though I basically just lurk and don’t post.

    Meta is really the poster child for enshitification.

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      10 months ago

      I don’t feel like they’re the poster child for enshittification; I still use Facebook the same as I did in 2006. It got worse, true, but it’s not enshittification worse. It’s worse because every cunt with a phone can get on from their phones. I don’t feel it’s enshittification as there’s no fees and it still serves the same basic function of keeping in touch with friends/family and uploading photos. How do you feel it was enshittified?

      If they were charging for photo storage or a certain number of friends, or fees for business pages, I’d agree. I don’t see monitization or the ruthless pursuit of profit as the main force behind why Facebook sucks these days.

  • SuperDuper@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    No, neither.

    The only thing that makes creating an Instagram tempting is the fact that every single tattoo artist in the area seemingly uses Instagram exclusively to post their work, and you can only scroll through so many posts without an account. Makes it very frustrating to research potential artists.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
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    10 months ago

    No. Well, kind of. Reluctantly. I check facebook once a week because so much of my kids’ activities are planned there. And I only do so on one specific computer, and in incognito mode.

  • TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Nope. And them making it harder and harder to exist without an account just makes me more resilient. I can’t view content on Facebook anything or even reddit anything anymore. I take that as a win because I’m not being fingerprinted properly so they assume I’m a robot. Which is a win.

  • ReallyZen
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    10 months ago

    No. I seriously need ig for work, but when the app popped the “pay €12/month or accept tracking” I uninstalled.

  • governorkeagan@lemdro.id
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    10 months ago

    I use Instagram mainly for business purposes. I do have a personal account that I occasionally use.

    My FB account is deactivated (in theory), the only reason I haven’t closed it yet is because Meta still hasn’t sent me my data that I requested. I don’t want them to use that against me.