• isgleas
      8·
      17 hours ago

      Indeed. I have permanently deleted mine (the very same one) 3 times. They always offer a way to recover it, even years after the so valled “deletion”

  • forrgott@lemm.ee
    41·
    15 hours ago

    I didn’t believe for one second that they actually delete your data, considering they have profiles on everybody they can identify, whether you have an account or not.

    As far as I’m concerned, all this would do is take away what tiny amount of control I have, which really isn’t much more than the illusion of control I freely admit. But since they’re gonna scrape my data as much as they can get away with no matter what, I just don’t see the benefit in going through this process.

  • Rageagainstbelief@lemmy.world
    25·
    17 hours ago

    I don’t know how I feel about this but I heard once that these networks are battlefields for ideas and by leaving them you are basically retreating. I left once I might leave again. Today though on Facebook I saw an old friend post something negative about trump supporters. Which is rare with my old friends. I liked the post and left a comment of support. It only had 5 likes.

    • usernamesAreTrickyOP
      8·
      16 hours ago

      Some platforms might be redeemable and worth that fight, others I fear are beyond saving in their current form

      There’s an algorithmic component here though that is going to make anything like that extremely uphill

      Meta has to want to follow Musks as example explicitly. If he look at Musk, that’s a worrying trajectory. Elon Musk specifically boosts his own posts on Twitter over others even if you don’t follow him. He downranks anything with the word cisgender. He boosts accounts that pay him for checkmarks and has taken those checkmarks away from people who criticize him

      • Rageagainstbelief@lemmy.world
        1·
        35 minutes ago

        Yeah it might be worthwhile to try to convince my friends and family to move to another platform instead. I’m still trying to figure out how to change their minds without burning bridges.