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John Oliver cited a 5000% rise in search queries related to leaving Meta and deleting accounts. Among the topics mentioned in the analysis, attention was drawn to early Facebook's naivete with regard to moderation requirements, the constitutional framework, and a history of governmental interference.

Oliver debunks common right-wing "cry censorship" talking points, as well as the objective difficulty of moderation endeavors, and how direct threats by Trump may have influenced Zuckerberg's turnaround.

Oliver went on to suggest Signal, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Pixelfed as alternatives that "do not seem as desperate to fall in line with Trump". For those reluctant to completely ditch Meta, Oliver revealed a new site with step-by-step instructions to "make yourself less valuable to them".

The guide was a collaboration with the EFF, and includes settings' tweaks for Facebook and Meta, whose 98% of revenue comes from micro-targeting ads, the host previously cited, to increase privacy, and recommends Firefox, Privacy Badger, as "other measures" to take in order "to block advertisers and other third parties from tracking you".

The segment culminated in a mock advert, in which the new Meta's approach to moderation is coined as "Fuck it", and hints to racism, internet scams, and calls to genocide running rampant on Meta's platforms.

The clip reminds the origins of Facebook as a site to "rank college girls by hotness", and its implication in genocide in Myanmar, which was more thoroughly discussed in an Oliver's previous special on Facebook in 2018.

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

i like that people are leaving zucc platforms but why is that happening suddenly? did he do something exceedingly fascist? did i miss something?

[–] whydudothatdrcrane@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

He only now was able to catch up with all the news with Meta moderation from a month ago. He is only a couple weeks back on air.

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[–] subtext@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice! Just shared this (as a PDF without the domain name lol) with my family!

[–] philycheeze@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] subtext@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hey it’s a group chat with my grandma ಠ_ಠ

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 10 points 3 days ago

and now you’ve robbed her of her chance to sell john oliver her collection of valuable rat erotica

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 9 points 3 days ago (10 children)

I’ve been wanting to try pixelfed but I haven’t figured out what to do: start my own for friends or join an existing one.

I heard there were some issues with a dev or something so I haven’t signed up for the original instance yet

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago

I love the instance I'm on and it's fairly quiet. Come on in!

https://pixtagram.social/

[–] skribe@aussie.zone 7 points 3 days ago

Try one of the existing instances. Pixelfed.social is probably a bad choice right now, as it's getting overloaded with new members and so importing from Instagram has been curtailed. The others at https://pixelfed.org/servers should be fine. If you later choose to host your own instance you can always move the data from your old one.

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[–] ddash@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The site doesn't suggest any alternatives though or am I not seeing that?

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