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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.

Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/

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[–] eugenia@lemmy.ml 169 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They're trying to kill counterculture. Pixelfed is also banned at meta's servers.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 120 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I have a suspicion that this isn't even about culture or revenue anymore. It's about control.

[–] datendefekt@feddit.org 26 points 3 weeks ago
[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago

The mew type of capitalism 🙂 even worse

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 3 weeks ago

When you got most of the money and assets... There is really only one thing left to acquire

[–] Onihikage@beehaw.org 7 points 3 weeks ago

Always has been.

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let's them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They're just doing it more now that they definitely won't face any repercussions.

They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation making the list of banned topics.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 124 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

"Listen, we might run our entire company on this platform, but that doesn't mean we respect it."

[–] not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 weeks ago

linux for me not for thee

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I quit FB years ago because it's such a garbage website. In the meantime IG has just gotten worse and worse and worse... Zuck would be king of enshittification if his websites weren't shit from the start.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

And network effect people will keep using IG.

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 53 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro

[–] Eyedust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As someone who originally fell for that trick, bless them. I've since learned how to do it right and became a dirty distrohopper.

Either that or some Linux wizard cast the "every time you get your distro perfectly set up and stable you get bored and install another one" curse on me.

[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I take the approach of settling into a distro then getting bored and messing with stuff I shouldn't (at least on a daily driver) and reinstalling out of necessity, sometimes changing distros as well.

[–] Eyedust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 weeks ago

Smashing something with a club and and sifting through the pieces to find out why it broke is the best way to learn. Its literally primal human instinct.

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

The only distro I haven't had that happen on was gentoo because the thought of reinstalling it makes me go "actually this is fine"

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 24 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

No wonder why WhatsApp isn't on Linux.

[–] passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have no clue how people trust whatsapp

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

i still need it for friends,family and stuff

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.

You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.

[–] timewarp@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It really comes down to what platforms they have with government backdoors & data sharing. If they know the government might not be able to access "encrypted" data then they'd rather suck the balls of government than create it anyway. Look at what happened to the Telegram CEO when he created the encryption & told the government to fuck off.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Sounds like a cool app.

[–] u_u@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

First time I heard of Ferdium. How's your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?

[–] Samespot@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.

If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Samespot@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I use it daily. There is discord and teams plugins for it.

[–] Samespot@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

How to install whatsapp and telegram plugins?

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I've never used beeper, but I've been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:

  • WhatsApp
  • Hangouts
  • Discord
  • Element (Matrix)
  • Nextcloud Chat
  • Lemmy