The Antisocial Network

[Grath]

EDIT: Ah fuck they got unbanned, not a good news post any more. Fuck off Fuckerberg.

From what I gather they're still banned, it was just a false alarm because the page doesn't get removed when that happens, but they can't post anything to it

Unfortunately, they did get unbanned. There's a post from 8 hours ago posted.

[Mongrel]

Just FYI time is almost up to get a piece of Zuck's money through the class-action settlement over Cambridge Analytica. If you were or are an American Facebook user and had that account at any point between May 24, 2007, and Dec. 22, 2022, you're eligible, but the claim deadline is tomorrow (friday) at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

The url for the claim form is: https://facebookuserprivacysettlement.com/

WaPo article with details.

[Thad]

Bluesky now available for anyone to sign up, invites no longer required.

[Mongrel]

Bluesky: "It's better than Twitter or Threads!"

[nosimpleway]

Careful not to trip on that low bar!

[Mongrel]

Ha. That bar's so low, the bathyscaphe Trieste couldn't trip over it.

In all honesty Bluesky's become sort of a weird place where it's just all shitpoasting all the time? There's almost no bots or active "official" accounts (though there's a lot of dormant 'just-in-case' ones) and the largest single political bloc is either far-left college/uni kids or dopey middle-aged Twitter refugees (hi). So the overall tone is... educated but not necessarily smart?

Which is to say it's comfortable, but certainly not all that useful.

[Thad]

It's got potential, if they're serious about decentralization.

[Büge]

Ha. That bar's so low, the bathyscaphe Trieste couldn't trip over it.

Good metaphor. I would have also accepted "The bar's so low, it's littered with Stockton Rush."

[Mongrel]

"The bar's so low, it's littered with Stockton Rush."

God. Damn.

[KingRoyal]

House passes bill to ban TikTok

This is not because of privacy concerns, since the US government does not recognize its citizens as having privacy, but instead because of their beef with China and because Meta and Elon Musk are tired of being outplayed

[beatbandito]

Pretty sure this is Israeli-backed.since their soldiers won't stop posting videos of murdering the elderly and children then laughing about it.

[Mongrel]

posting videos of murdering the elderly and children then laughing about it.

Ah, the Wagner Method.

[Friday]

how dare you suggest that the idf and their masters in israel are anything but patriot noble warriors doing their sacred duty and also what about hamas

[beatbandito]

how dare you suggest that the idf and their masters in israel are anything but patriot noble warriors doing their sacred duty

Definitely not denying this. They do believe murdering all Palestinians is their sacred duty, they just don't want to hear other people complaining about it.

[Büge]

and yet there's still videos of IDF soldiers merrily trying on the lingerie that belonged to Palestinians they've just killed

[KingRoyal]

This joins the Super Bowl and the Oscars as cover for the IDF that show a lot of people have lost the plot completely