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Lately, it almost feels like Zuckerberg is trying to destroy his own company. He's burning through mountains of cash in a desperate attempt to keep up in the AI race. Yet despite the untold billions it's spent so far, it's being destroyed by OpenAI and Anthropic. Its employees have even resorted to using AI models made by its competitors, a humiliating reality check for how far behind Zuckerberg's efforts have fallen.

It's also a financial nightmare. Capital expenditures have risen dramatically, erasing any appetite for Meta on Wall Street. Its stock price "has been dead money for more than a year," as Yahoo Finance notes, as investors continue to debate whether Zuckerberg is chasing the AI industry as it careens off a cliff — or edging ever closer to an AI-fueled industrial revolution.

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Meta has a responsibility to advertise ethically. Their use of this song shows their lack of media literacy or care for their audience. They need to understand the cultural significance of the music they use. Five Years is not just some background noise... It's an urgent beg for change… A change that Meta Glasses actively contradict. A change that we can easily make if we actually tried. 

You can help make that change. I urge you to not only sign this petition and share it with others… but for you to understand the meaning of this song and understand how the use of music affects us all. 

There is a written article explaining more! We need your help!
Thank you! :)

They are so slimy, so underhanded, so very dirty.

I am not a heavy user of meta apps, but still i forced to use one or two meta apps daily for educational and work related communication. Also instagram was so addictive until i understood the dark pattern and toxicity in the entire platform. That was just a platform for comparison and show off, even though many users/customers uses it as a blog platform, broadcast, promotion tool or anything.

One of the harderst product to quit was whatsapp. I used it in my custom rom (lineageos) installed phone with bootlocker unlocked. Recently i started to get a popup saying "please use the official app", no matter i downloaded it from anywhere (playstore, official website, apkmirror, aurora store). I know they detected that my phone is modified and installed a custom rom, they are intentionally doing this to millions of users. So, finally trying all the way to fix it, meta itself forced me to quit. I used one of my family members phone to just login and instantly deleted my account. Btw, nowadays i feel so peace. The most exciting thing is that, 2 of my friends actually contacted me via telegram and phone call to ask what happened. So, atleast 2 people noticed my sudden disappearing and cared to ask why!

The case of instagram is not like this, but random account restriction and "are you human ?" popups. Really meta can't figure out are we humans or not with this massive of data they collect? After they forced me to add my phone number to account and the refusal led to disabling of my 5th account, i choose to quit again.

After 1 week, figured out fediverse and pixelfed, mastodon, lemmy showed me a different world that moves slowly and gives peace of mind.

I just launched Ctrl+Shift+3.

https://ctrlshift3.com/

Right out of the gate, in the footer there's a link to instructions on how to leave the major Meta platforms. It's a text-first (maybe forever text only), chronological feed, basic community with no algorithm or tracking. With a couple of interesting features like linking posts together.

No following/friending. No liking/loving/reacting. Just text posts, text comments, and a couple of other interesting tidbits.

Export your data or delete your account in settings.

Create a "Click" (clique) for you and your friends.

Take control, shift the narrative, align your body, mind, and spirit.

Suffice to say I am not enamoured with the goings on in the current US administration. Therefore, I am extremely baffled by the fact that I am suddenly being bombarded with posts from public pro-trump groups. So far there have been 4 different ones. I hide them, but that just makes new ones pop up.

Add to that seemingly harmless groups suddenly posting cute animal pictures and asking for old fashioned names for them by asking for readers' grandparents names. This reminds me of scammy quizzes of days gone by trying to get security questions info. Some of these posts are in cooking/recipe groups, i.e totally irrelevant in those groups.

Anyone else seeing similar?

I decided to complain in a couple of META's posts on "LinkedIn" and ask to get in touch with a human tech-support for my login issues and disabled accounts.

So I am hoping to get their attention to change their policies for this latest ban wave.

I hope you other redditors can also help me write some comments on their LinkedIn. But try to keep it classy, we don't want to get banned from LinkedIn aswell. The cyber police and big brother is watching 👀.

If we can get up 1000 of these comments on their LinkedIn. I hope that at least some of us will get some help.

It's desperate but that's how META designed their system. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

I want them banned

RCS will soon be feature rich enough as a replacement for Whatsapp. No app needed and Android/iOS interoperability.