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From internal leaks within the company as well as external analysis, the tip of the iceberg behind Facebook's spyware empire is exposed. Take a look to better protect yourself when you're not even on the platform: https://simplifiedprivacy.com/facebooks-corrupt-off-platform-surveillance/

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Telegram, discord, mastadon, signal, session, etc there are too many to list

[–] fuzzzerd@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Which are all useless if nobody you want to talk to is there.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Then simple text or oldschool phonecalls work

[–] foo@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Facebook is a passive form of information feed on your family and friends. Phone calls are not a direct analog to them.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Some would say that is better

[–] jcarax@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Oh, that's why it was so easy for me. There's nobody I want to talk to.

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I can't switch away from messenger until everyone else does, because a chat app that doesn't actually connect me to the people I want to talk to is worthless to me

---Everyone

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lacks a publicly accessible user database. I can't get your info unless we have a mutual.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Which I like, semi aquaintance relationships are just fodder

[–] foo@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

Discord is a giant data hog. It's not a good argument.

The thing that Facebook has is momentum and a passive feed.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know these are there - I said so in my post. It does not work when others are on FB and will/can not leave for another platform.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] baggins@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

No. Simply not suitable or practical.

But you do you.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

Lol, passive agressive much