• csm10495@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Makes me think that platforms banning Trump after Jan 6 were just kissing up to Biden coming in. Maybe there is just a cycle of capitalist sucking up.

  • TORFdot0@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters

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      6 months ago

      He wasn’t. Mark used to be a sweet kid, but he’s been radicalised by all the shit he reads on Facebook. It’s not too late, Mark, delete your social media profiles, stay away from that poisonous hellhole!

    • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Nah these billionaires don’t align on the modern left wing right wing spectrum, they are all a special kind of hardcore libertarian. The only ideology they have is that they should be able to do whatever they want to earn their next billion. Him appeasing right wingers fits his MO, but doesn’t make him a right winger.

  • Bogasse@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    I wanted to leave a while ago but their shitty development practices got me locked out of my account due to a bug before I could.

  • Ulrich@feddit.org
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    6 months ago

    Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling

    anyone who quits Meta is ‘virtue signaling’

    These are not the same thing. Just a blatant lie.

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    6 months ago

    Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.

    Second, that’s kinda rich from coming from the guy who’s been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.

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    6 months ago

    “Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling, but I think the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better”

    Who is this “vast majority”? Oh right, hetereosexual white cis men. Got it.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    6 months ago

    No its called having morals and standing by them. Virtue signaling is when you pay lip-service to a cause and don’t walk the walk. Almost like zuck doing his dei stuff when it was popular and doing a 180 as soon as it becomes slightly unpopular.

    • Eximius@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I think it is quite beautiful to see how much <some politically, even if self-perceived, powerful person who is a moral trashheap> falls into the usual strong narcisism tendencies of projection.

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    6 months ago

    I virtue signaled 7 years ago when the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, realizing that Facebook is a seedy company that can’t be trusted.

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      6 months ago

      Same, also, Zuckerberg has always been a sketch ball who does anti-social and user hostile things with his app, so it was just years of being fed up with that. 2017 was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.

  • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This is exactly the kind of thing a loser would say. Loser CEOs are always whining about people leaving their platform. Winners keep their head down and build something their users actually enjoy using.