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Eat_Your_Paisley 90 points 19 days ago

They should have been put out of business when they started manipulating elections in 2014/2015 but it's never too late

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auzy1 58 points 19 days ago

Good

But, I'm more excited about the possibility that here in Australia they might allow you to block random crap coming up on your feed you didn't follow. As every right wing Nazi idiot is posting rage bait and bullshit to get attention on it

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ScoffingLizard 36 points 19 days ago

"I know Facebook is a Nazi org, but I'll just keep generating money by continuing to use it and hope they allow me to block Nazi shit. "

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auzy1 24 points 19 days ago

I operate meetup events. My choices are meetup which is overpriced, or Facebook. Unless you have any suggestions

Also, the benefit of this stretches far what I do. It's the easily corrupted dckheads who won't be absorbing this stuff on a daily basis.

The reality is, I believe a huge factor in all the shit going on is Facebook at the moment. Laws like this are highly beneficial

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xtr0n 13 points 19 days ago

I appreciate that you’ve made an effort to find alternatives. I refuse to use Meta products and it’s so frustrating when promoters act like I’m a freak for even asking if they post announcements anywhere other than IG

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stevles 8 points 19 days ago

Yeah unfortunately when Bending Spoons buy out companies, development typically slows or even stalls and the subscription costs go astronomical. They've done the same with Komoot, Evernote and a bunch of others.

Even their website summarises how shit they are once you wrap quotes around the right word:

We acquire and “improve” iconic products. Supported by dozens of proprietary technologies and an elite team of engineers, scientists, and designers

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urushitan 5 points 19 days ago

lol honestly it wouldn't surprise me if they secretly get paid a boatload by a competitor to buy out a company, when the other company couldn't buy out their competitor due to monopoly and antitrust law. "Hey can you buy evernote and make it super shitty it's eating into our market share. We'll pay you [x] and give you 50% of every subscription by someone who uses the evernote migration feature over the next two years"

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W98BSoD 2 points 19 days ago

Yeah unfortunately when Bending Spoons Blackboard buy(s) out companies…

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ScoffingLizard 1 point 16 days ago

What about a Lemmy meetup communuty for it? The person running the server for your province or state might allow it. I think DBzer0 might allow users to make their own communities.

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auzy1 1 point 16 days ago

I've considered making an invite actually here for Melbourne Australian hikers.. But, not sure anyone would notice

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ryannathans 1 point 19 days ago

Without a doubt this is going to make the average user see a feed filled with ads, and want to turn the algorithm back on

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auzy1 2 points 18 days ago

We already do

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ryannathans 1 point 18 days ago

It'll be far worse

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auzy1 2 points 18 days ago

It won't... The difference is that the feed will be shorter for the day, so doom scrolling will be more boring

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Solrac 27 points 18 days ago

The company still exists. That's the real loss.

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crispbacon99 24 points 19 days ago

Call me when the billionaire/Epstein class is prosecuted and behind bars

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OneOfManyPerfectCats 20 points 19 days ago

Meh. Who cares about these monetary judgements, they don't change anything. I want to see metaphorical heads roll (people jailed for this.) Fines have no consequences whatsoever.

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leanleft 12 points 18 days ago

unrelated criticism:
the website hosting this article is loading 40 third-party scripts.

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Chl0r0f0rm_Angel 12 points 19 days ago

Yes, another 50¢ in class action settlements! That'll show em

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Simulation6 12 points 19 days ago

Isn’t there some third strike rule and Facebook gets locked away for life now?

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Seimhe 8 points 19 days ago

Not when they can flash the capitalism card.

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ProfessorYakkington 9 points 18 days ago

Glad to hear it. But fines like this are just a cost of business for them and for every big company. A fine only hurts if it turns the profit negative. It has to bite enough that breaking the law costs more than not getting caught. Or someone goes to jail. They made more than $942 million by gambling with kids' safety. The leaders likely read the ruling and did the math and would make the same decisions again and just try harder to get away with it. Getting caught harming children ( not just children ) at scale should result in a company no longer existing. It doesn't.

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spaghettiwestern 3 points 19 days ago

New Mexico leading the way!?

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fonix232 6 points 19 days ago

*New America

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