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[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 178 points 1 week ago (4 children)

isn't virtue signaling doing something good but just for shows? so he is implying that quitting fb is a good thing to do

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 79 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yes. But he’s so dumb he doesn’t realize it.

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

When someone does something you don't want them to do, but the reason you don't want them to do it is completely invalid - that's when you call it virtue signalling.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He looks more and more like a cult leader every day.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 64 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I recently commented somewhere that the more Elon Musk leans into MAGA the more he looks like a Sith lord and the affliction appears to be hitting Mark Zuckerberg too lately.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago

Always two there are. The Master, and the Apprentice.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 70 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I signaled that virtue a very, very long time ago.

[–] Technus@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 week ago

I've been boycotting Facebook since before it was cool.

[–] GuyDudeman@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

I did mine like ten years ago.

[–] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
Virtue signaling is a good thing. The problem is lack of virtue, not presence of signals.
[–] phughes@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What I love most about the phrase "virtue signaling" is that when people accuse you of it they are themselves virtue signaling.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's weird to realize I would wait in line for like 45 minutes up piss on Zuckerberg's grave, should the legal opportunity ever arise.

Just a thought for his next of kin to consider, in due time...

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 47 points 1 week ago

"vote with your wallet and you can affect a corporation!"

Also:

"Fuck you, I'm entitled to your participation (your data) or you're a virtue signaler leftist baby."

I wish I wasn't an atheist, at least I'd have some comfort in knowing pieces of shit get what they deserve. Instead they just become billionaires and live amazing lives.

[–] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm not "virtue signaling" I'm tired. I'm tired of the ads.

I'm tired of the algorithm intentionally fueling flame wars.

I'm tired of INESCAPABLE "meme pages," run by spam bots, that just recycle the same tired shit over and over and over again.

I'm tired of the THREE different video systems that are inexplicably not interoperable. Reels, Facebook Live, and video Instagram posts all showing up in my timeline but all are part of separate systems. Meanwhile, if I share a link to a YouTube video, it gets suppressed by the almighty algorithm. Because how dare I show my followers/friends something they'd might like to see if it takes their eyeballs away from Facebook.

Finally, I'm tired of companies selling people like me down the river to score political points with chuds.

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[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

Fuck you Zuck. Leaving Facebook has been great for me, it's not virtue signaling, it's a quality of life improvement.

Ass.

[–] VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Says the guy who suddenly started hitting all the typical shithead slogans and talking point as soon as it seemed beneficial.

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[–] Muffi@programming.dev 37 points 1 week ago

It's called being a political consumer, you dipshit

I'm just trying to save his neutered business from my feminine energy.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 33 points 1 week ago

Lemmy user says anyone who doesn't quit being CEO of Meta is 'guillotine signaling'

[–] Zpiritual@lemm.ee 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Looks like he is starting to follow Elon down into the rabbit hole off asshattery.

[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He’s been an asshat at least as far back as when he was enrolled at Harvard. Facebook was originally called Facemash, a “hot or not” clone for guys at Harvard to rate the attractiveness of their female classmates (without consent).

[–] LowtierComputer@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Starting to? He's been on that road at least as long as musk of not before.

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[–] StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Meta has us in a chokehold. They make money off our presence in order to continue to be in business and yet it’s too difficult for people to leave,” Makichen wrote.

Difficult? How? I'm pretty sure I still have an account on Facebook from it's early days, but I haven't logged in to it in more than a decade. Friends and family can reach me in other ways, like email or better yet a phone call.

[–] femtech@midwest.social 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They are talking about their business. The massage place I go to is primarily thru Facebook. They have their own site but it was easier to just request a appointment.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Many businesses have dead websites now, as all the visibility is just through Facebook and Google Maps.

It’s very different than Twitter, where most business use (outside of influencers and influence campaigns) amounts to status updates that can be given elsewhere.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Mark Zuckerberg the chicken fucker?

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[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The phrase "virtue signalling" is itself a form of virtue signalling 😏

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 week ago

What a fucking loser.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago

If quitting your site can be taken as virtue signaling against misinformation and bigotry, your site may have some systemic issues.

[–] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 25 points 1 week ago

I don't know, sounds like he's just virtue signaling to me.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago
[–] Dvixen@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (3 children)

It's not virtue signalling if you truly mean it.

Our feeds should be our own.

I quit Crackbook a decade ago over the algorithm forcing shit at me I had no interest in.

That's when I learned what a dark pattern was. I started seeing it pop up nearly everywhere that used algorithms.

Did the same with Twatter a few years ago. Again, I was over being forced to see shit I had zero interest in. This time I removed my footprint, leaving a handful of posts.

No one noticed either time I'd left. (No one ever does. That's a whole other rant about the state of anti social media.)

Never used Threads. Won't even click on the ones that are shoved at me through Insta.

Kept Insta for patterns and recipes, and over time I've stopped engaging on the platform. It's just as bad as the others for the algorithm and ads. Staying is on me, I know. Sunk cost fallacy or whatever. I didn't want to lose my collection of patterns that exist no where else.

I started the process of removing what little remains of my presence on IG. Discovered I'm not allowed to remove likes 'to protect the community'. Deleting my own content bugs out often. Removing saved bookmarks bugs out often. No way to keep the videos I refer to often to make things.

Damned straight I mean it when I say I will cease using Meta products. I am tired of being told how to use something, or how I should think and what I should believe.

Zuck can fuck all the way off.

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'll be glad to signal my foot up his ass

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[–] lurklurk@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Zuckerberg reportedly decided to do away with censorship mechanisms at Meta after a seemingly innocuous photo that he posted on Facebook in November 2023 about the surgery that was performed on his left anterior cruciate ligament failed to go viral,

pathetic

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[–] kbal@fedia.io 22 points 1 week ago

Sorry Zuck, but "virtue" is not the message all those people making hand gestures at you are trying to signal.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

sounds like he recently received a magadouche orientation and is going through the lexicon

[–] Vaggumon@lemm.ee 20 points 1 week ago

Well then, since 2016 I've been a Virtue signaling mother fucker. Fuck Zuck!

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago
[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

Guess I was "virtue signalling" back before the term was even coined.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

His AI is picking from random internet phrases to see if it unlocks a reward function.

[–] abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 week ago

I believe in "free speech" but if you leave my platforms you're virtue signalling.

Or it could be your social media sites are full of death of the internet AI garbage and bullshit.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wonder what he would say about me never having used Facebook. or any of his other "services"?

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[–] ristoril_zip@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

so he admits it's virtuous... just that he thinks some people are doing it disingenuously...?

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Anyone who quits Meta says Mark Zuckerberg is a colossal dick.

[–] callyral@pawb.social 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I could quit Whatsapp but my fucking country (Brazil) depends on it for everything

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[–] sibannac@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jokes on him, I quit before it was Meta.

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