I deleted my account back in 2013. One thing I didn’t really think about was that someone else could spin up an account and pretend to be you after you leave. When I found out that someone did this I don’t think I did anything about it, I just looked at the account, cringed, and closed the window and never went back.
How to “delete” them? Words really have no meaning anymore.
It’s short for deleting your account, data, etc… People ommit those words for a long time now, like “Do you have Lemmy?” or “What is your Mastodon?”
I don’t think that most of the lemmy crowd needs this info to beginn with…
But we may have friends and family members asking about it
And surely we would be happy to help if asked.
Gizmodo’s post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks
Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.
LOL! They’re not even pretending to be a news outlet anymore.
Woosh
Oh hey, good reminder. The one upside to the fact that my FB account continually revived itself while I was using my Quest 2 is that now I can delete my account (for the last time, I hope) as part of a widespread protest instead of a one-off annoyance.
Is the process different from it was in 2015?
Now you must sacrifice your first born.
Anyone that still has these accounts hasn’t been paying attention the last few years and is part of the problem. I doubt many CURRENT Fb, Ig, Threads users will change their habits.
Dumb fucks
If you’re still on those platforms, why would less censorship be the hill to die on?
Its less censorship AND an allowance of actual hate speech.
Ehh. While I don’t support Meta’s real name policy, with it being paired with this, I somewhat support allowing these people to put themselves. Let them face the societal consequences of hate speech.
It still has a real impact on the people being harmed. I dont know if bullies getting social consequences for their actions outweighs the pain they have already inflicted.
That said, hopefully better information dissemination will help anyone being targeted to find better places where bullies are defederated/moderated for being shitty humans rather than based on shareholder value and kissing the ring of a dictator.
It’s always good to leave them. It’s always good to remind and enable people to do so.
Sure, but why would less interference from the CIA or Mossad executives at fb be an incentive?
Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it
Has he contacted you yet to schedule a time to suck it?
Become a master hacker who can access their servers?
How to delete is not the problem. That’s the trivial part. In fact, you don’t even need to delete your account. Just stop using it and it’s practically the same effect.
The problem is how to get your friends and acquintances out of there. Lots of things are there and only there. Like for instance, it’s my jujitsu club’s main place of information. If I quit FB, I will no longer know what’s happening there.
I’ve barely used mine for years. Deleting it is feels much more satisfying and final.
Put pressure on the group owners to pack it up and move the group elsewhere. Where the group goes, they’ll follow.
they will never understand and ignore you since you’re the only one complaining anyways
This is the problem I’ve run into. I wanted to stay as part of a social group I’m nominally in, but that group’s only presence is on Facebook. And the group admins don’t want to move somewhere else because a) it’s change, and b) there aren’t many other options as good at managing such groups.
On a related topic, does anyone know of a good Federated alternative to Facebook. Or at least an alternative that’s less ad-riddled and more privacy-conscious)?
I looked around online last night and all the articles out there suggested things like Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter as Facebook alternatives, which are wrong on so many levels. I’m not that bothered about getting an alternative myself since I barely used FB anyway. But being my extended family’s tech support, I keep getting asked about what good alternatives are out there. I’m finding nothing, but I’m likely missing a good Federated option.
I haven’t used it in a long time but I think Diaspora is intended as a decentralized FB clone. https://diasporafoundation.org/
I’m not sure if it uses ActivityPub or its own thing. It’s been around for awhile so it may predate ActivityPub.
i deployed a Lemmy instance to use… not sure if there’s anything better
The only thing keeping my meta account alive is Marketplace. Unfortunately, it’s much busier than Craigslist in my area.
Facebook has become a dirty flea market for me.
Same. I live on an island and the only way to sell anything is on two fb groups. Craigslist is there but half the time you get people on the big island and have to take a ferry to sell. I’m thinking of starting a small website/app, not sure it will take off though.
If you cant get people on craigslist, the most well known fixed rock of online classifieds…I don’t know that your app will take off. OfferUp and the other one also tried to knock out marketplace and failed.
Offerup, letgo, mercari, etsy, there’s a million online 3PMs. (3rd party marketplaces). Refine the idea or scrap it. This guys right.
Yeah the world moved from Craigslist to marketplace before I did. I found out the hard way when nothing was selling.
One thing I like about marketplace is you can view someone’s profile to see if they are an actual human that lives near you.
Marketplace needs to die, it’s got most of the downsides of craigslist except for making it super easy prospective purchasers to spam “still available?” Ad nauseum
the real guide we need is how to remove Facebook from the internet
Also Facebook Groups for obscure things, Facebook Marketplace, and even a lot of local political organizations primarily use Instagram
i tried to avoid it and deny it forever but facebook marketplace has really destroyed craigslist. so lame
Pffft! This is soooo 2015.
I turfed FB in 2015 as well (didn’t bother with the other stuff).
But now I’m worried I deactivated it and didn’t delete… I cannot remember.
If it’s just deactivated-- I wonder if it’s better to just leave it a greyed out graveyard, than to reactivate it just to delete. I feel reactivating would give it more information even, as I would be on a different device. It’s been dead a decade.
What do people suggest?
fuck!
i made a filter with words “zuckerberg” and “meta” but not “facebook”
Is it good to know that there ís still person in this world doesn’t rely much more on social media even though that is the biggest mainstream in this world.
If it wasn’t for Marketplace, I would be off Facebook entirely.
But I am not on threads at all, and only get punted over to Instagram with reels that appear on my Facebook account.
