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Mildly Infuriating

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Running Shortlist includes blocking hashtags for:

democrat (but not republican)

voteblue (but not votered)

presidentbiden (but not president harris)

kamala

liberal

liberals

leftist

leftists

barackobama (but not presidentobama)

obama (but not obamas)

berniesanders

votebiden (votekamala, votetrump works tho)

democracy (WOW)

presidentcarter

fuckputin

makeamericasmartagain

libertarian (for some reason)

igcensorship

factsoverfiction

fuckdemocrats

fuckrepublicans

bluewave (redwave still works, shocker)

politicalleft (blocked, but politicalright isn’t)

fascism

fascist

antifascism

prochoice

Note: some of these like #democrat I can search again.

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago

This is more than mildly infuriating. This is fascism in action.

[–] [email protected] 152 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Time to close all your accounts on anything owned by Meta, y'all. There is a Fediverse or privacy-oriented version of everything they do. And maybe you won't find the same people there, but you certainly will find new ones that are definitely worth your time and attention. Ad-free. Nazi-bootlicker-free.

edit: typo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

I use messenger to keep contact with my mom, dad and siblings. If I delete it i literally can’t talk to them so it’s kinda necessary at this point

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

You can deactivate your Facebook account, it keeps messenger ONLY still active. A great step while you encourage them to try a different app.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 12 hours ago

Your parents and siblings wouldn't answer you if you texted or called them?

That's pretty bleak

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

Of course it can't work right away for everyone. But it's a conversation you can have, explain your concerns, why it would be better to move on to a different software.

I used to talk to my family over WhatsApp, until they had a 24h outage and we switched to Signal, to never come back. But I still have dozens of other people there who won't switch. At some point it's a tradeoff you decide to make

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Deleted my FB account just now.

I’d had the thing since 2003. It was the last non-fedi social media I was holding onto (the only way to keep in touch with certain people, and all that.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

All the power to you! We need to normalize keeping in touch with each other in a more personal way. They robbed writing thoughtful letters, postcards and greeting cards from us.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Deleted my FB account just now.

I’d had the thing since 2003

But... Facebook was created in 2004?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

Now that you mention it, I might be a bit off in my math. It’s not my best subject.

Thinking about it a little more, I probably made the account in 2006 or so.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Anyone have a recommendation for a cross platform fediverse app to replace FB Messenger specifically? I don’t use the FB site but I do use Messenger to stay in touch with my family back home and for a group chat with my wife and kids.

Would specifically need macOS, Windows and iOS support.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Signal is available on all those platforms.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

This is the way

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

i've moved my communication to Signal, it's been good so far and i haven't heard of privacy-related incidents

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Element uses the Matrix protocol. We use and love it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I stopped using any Meta app and website several years ago, but I lost my 2FA so the only way I can log in to delete the accounts is to send a photo of my ID card and other stuff to Meta to prove who I am, I really don't feel like doing that. I'm not sure what the best action is, just let it be or do as they ask to be able to delete everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

yeah it's probable better not committing additional information, they won't collect more about you if you never use it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are testing the waters, seeing what they can get away with. It's only day 2.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

If this is "testing the waters" then buckle the fuck up folks

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This should be front page news why is this not front page news what the fuck

(Note that this statement is rhetorical)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

"In a hyper-partisan environment, even unintentional errors like this can escalate into accusations of partisanship," he said.

"If these issues are not resolved quickly they risk fuelling conspiracy theories and damaging Meta's reputation."

While users who type "#Democrat" or "#Democrats" see no results, the hashtag "Republican" returns 3.3 million posts on the social media platform.

Yeah, no. There are no 'accusations of partisanship', there's straight up blatant partisanship and overt attempts at shaping the narrative and suppressing speech that Der Furher won't like. There's no speed short of not implementing it in the first place that would prevent conspiracies from propagating, especially with how hard Fuckerberg is dickriding trump.

I deleted my Facebook account over a decade ago for good reason, and I'm hopeful that people will (but realistic that they won't) get off of there. That shit hole needs to burn.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Just an error that targets only one side of the political spectrum. Of course.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

From the folks that complain about their free speech.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

This was a "bug". According to Meta.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I tried to find news articles that supported your claim that more than just democrats was blocked.

I found a couple that said that democrats were blocked, but found it strange that the journalists did not try other obvious hashtags aswell.

Does anyone know of any third party that can verify this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

I don't have any sources for you. But I saw it with my own eyes and took screenshots.

Sorry to link to reddit, but here's a post with 90k up votes, and comments filled with people experiencing the same.

While being able to search #republican and #prolife

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/J6MMy8DP6k

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The tech giants all try to be your daddy, so you may as well delete them all. None of them are there to help you become a proper, educated adult.

I'm surprised when people keep using them. People still use Google, it's even the most popular search engine in the world.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, whether we like to admit it or not, Google still has better search quality compared to other competitors, even if the quality of Google search had gone down over the decades. Also, even more unfortunate is that Google creeped and embedded itself into almost every fibre of modern digital society. Trying to avoid anything remotely related to Google is almost impossible because you would be inconveniencing yourself. I still have to use Google Maps to get my way around, unfortunately, because other map services are not great.

Welcome to techno-feudalism. Now I know what left wing critics like Yanis Varoufakis mean by the term. Big tech companies have made themselves lords and we have to stick with them for convenience, and the government could do nothing about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah unfortunately we get to live through this nightmare even if you didn't vote for it. Best tip is to not use US services as payback. Use a VPN if necessary.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Might want to double check these. I know for certain that this morning #democrats was blocked but now it's not - and I tried your list up until #liberal and it all worked

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

There are two user filters in the settings which default to the stricter hiding. Politics and sensitive content.

Some of these might be under either of those filters and even with both set to show content some of these are hidden.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Which is default? Strict?

That’s what matters because it’s what 95% of people are using.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

anyone who complains get the less strict one /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Didn't know that was an option (not a big IG user) but I checked and I have no filters so that makes sense.

#democrats was DEFINITELY blocked for me an hour and a half ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

This sounds like what they'd do...

Put everything "good" under "sensitive content" so kids and people who don't know better leave that stuff hidden because when blatant racism, bigotry, and fascism doesn't fall under "sensitive content" people will assume that shit is really really fucked up and and keep it hidden.

These asshats are gonna fuck around and get banned everywhere except America and then Americans will flock to other countries social media because normal people don't want to hang out in a Nazi clubhouse

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I read they're keeping this out of other countries (for now). Even fact checking is still enabled.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are filtered results outside of the US

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The fact that they were blocked (even temporarily) is bad enough, even if they unblocked them because people noticed too fast.

I'm sure they'll continue working on more subtle ways to suppress discussions and control narrative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I agree, I just don't want any misinformation coming from our side

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago

"It's time to get back to our roots around free expression."

--Marky Mark

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How come i get results though?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago

It's no longer censored as obviously.

Once it made news they back pedaled

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I see that WhatsApp notification 😞

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'd love to move away from it, but my work and literally everyone I know is on there

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

3rd time the charm?

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