Where the comic strip #FowlLanguage has been (and why they left #Facebook, #Instagram etc)
https://tinyview.com/fowl-language/2023/01/03/deal-with-the-devils
#comics #artists #ducks
Tag: Facebook
Which site was first to publish your likes/favorites in your followers’ timelines?
I haven’t been active here on Facebook for a while.
I haven’t been active here on Facebook for a while. I’m less comfortable with the major social media platforms these days, and Facebook starts sending “hey, why don’t you like me anymore?” emails and notices on a daily basis, which I find annoyingly makes me want to *not* come back.
But this is where most of the people I know are, so after a few weeks I finally get back and spend too long trying to catch up on 87 notifications that aren’t actually the kind of thing that would be a notification on any other platform, they’re things FB thinks I want to see, and sometimes they’re right, and sometimes they’re wrong, but 90% of the time it’s about Facebook and whether they can get me to look, not about “Hey your friend wants to get in touch with you about this thing.”
Anyway, I’ve been most active on Mastodon lately. It’s similar to Twitter, but instead of one centralized corporation it’s a lot of different servers run by different people and groups, so it can actually be moderated on a human scale, but the servers are able to talk to each other like email servers do. You can find my main account at
Yes, I suppose data revealed through a system *working as intended* isn’t technically a “breach.”
Yes, I suppose data revealed through a system *working as intended* isn’t technically a “breach.”
Most social media these days is built around selling access to participants’ data, directly or indirectly (through ad placement). It doesn’t have to be, but that’s the business model that’s taken hold.
There are alternatives to the big data-mining social networks, but they have their own drawbacks. Blogs still exist, Mastodon is making great strides, you can self-host if you can afford it & have the know-how (or know someone who does)…
But your friends/family aren’t on [cool social network], they’re still on FB & Twitter, so you need to keep them around to talk to them.
And it takes time, effort & money to maintain your own site.
And a lot of networks aren’t as polished as the ones you’re already on…
Leaving FB/Twitter isn’t easy for everyone, or even rewarding for everyone.
We can make it easier, help people diversify, & grow those alternative networks, but let’s not blame those who accept the trade-off & stay on the major sites.
Still, user data is the product. Breaches need one kind of solution. Business practices need another.
I shared a link to an article on Medium about social networks. It didn’t show up at all on FB mobile…
Ok, this is messed up. I shared a link to an article on Medium about social networks. It didn’t show up at all on FB mobile, even when I looked directly at my profile. I thought maybe it’s hiding posts from Buffer. So I re-posted it, directly in the Facebook desktop site.
It’s still not here.
It shows on the desktop site, but not the mobile site. I’d bet it doesn’t show up in the app.
And we know a lot of social networking is done on mobile these days.
Update in comments:
Thanks for checking – so it looks like it’s just the mobile website, not the mobile app. Which is better than it could be…but still bizarre (and suspicious).
Heh. Facebook has an ipv6 network range containing the groups face:b00c
Heh. Facebook has an ipv6 network range containing the groups face:b00c
Incoming search hit: “what the fuck is wrong with facebook on my new phone”
Incoming search hit: “what the fuck is wrong with facebook on my new phone”
Facebook locks users in a closet for using same passwords/emails on Adobe
Interesting: Facebook cross-references the leaked Adobe passwords and email addresses to see which of their own users are using the same password on both sites.
[dead link, was on Sophos’ blog]
The next time someone tells you email confirmation is too hard, consider: Every Facebook user confirmed their address
The next time someone tells you email confirmation is too hard, consider: Every Facebook user confirmed their address
Another reason I still treat my blog as my primary online presence…
Another reason I still treat my blog as my primary online presence, not my Facebook, or Twitter, or Google +, etc.
Why Facebook, Twitter and Instagram put up roadblocks to each others’ content
Facebook buys Instagram. After the fuss certain iPhone users put up over Android users being allowed in the club, I wonder what they think.
Facebook buys Instagram. After the fuss certain iPhone users put up over Android users being allowed in the club, I wonder what they think.
Wow. Half-life of a StumbleUpon link compared to Facebook & Twitter: 400 hours vs. 3!
Wow. Half-life of a StumbleUpon link compared to Facebook & Twitter: 400 hours vs. 3! https://www.fastcompany.com/1792282/infographic-day-incredible-power-stumbleupon
Where people don’t use Facebook
Interesting map: Combine NASA’s view of the world at night with the map of Facebook usage, and you find out which developed countries do and don’t use Facebook.
Where people don’t use Facebook
Putting the growth of the web in perspective
Putting the growth of the web in perspective: RT @pingdom Facebook now as big as the entire Internet was in 2004 #social
It turns out that Facebook allows you to log in with two variations of your password…
Interesting: It turns out that Facebook allows you to log in with two variations of your password: One with the first letter capitalized (because so many mobile phones automatically capitalize the first letter of a field to “help” you) and one with all the capitals/lowercase flipped (so that you can still log in with CAPS LOCK on).
WTF, Facebook? I can see blocking new uploads if you’re not familiar with an…
Facebook Blocks KDE Photo App, Deletes Users’ Pics
WTF, Facebook? I can see blocking new uploads if you're not familiar with an app that (for instance) suddenly gets picked up by spammers, but even in that case, you should check and see if there are legit uploads from the same app before deleting everything every uploaded with the tool.