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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Zeon@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap...

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[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

Use the face of Zuckerberg

[-] Feedback17@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

As a sane person I never joined Facebook until recently. At least I tried to. Got rejected for no reason- it said I violated their authenticity requirements or some bullshit. Nonsense. I looked it up and it's common - if they can't farm enough data off you to sell they don't want you. Couldn't care less, but Zuckerberg is a human cancer.

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[-] nimeni133@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I wouldn’t know - quit using meta products years ago!

[-] Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

People who are saying to just delete Facebook or don’t use it aren’t wrong of course (I say that myself, to be clear I hate FB); but as someone who tries to buy and sell things secondhand (I see it as being environmentally responsible), this is largely becoming impossible to do locally without Facebook Marketplace. I honestly have some grudging respect for Facebook’s ability to survive just when you think they might start to become irrelevant. Things were headed that way for them, then they bought Instagram. And then the last couple years, it was sort of common knowledge that the only people who use it anymore are old folks and Nazis… and then FB Marketplace kills Craigslist and becomes the only app people use for local buying/selling.

Idk maybe there’s some opportunity here for some local buy/sell federated service?

[-] treeofnik@discuss.online 5 points 3 months ago

https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt is popular in some places. Maybe popular is a strong word. The problem is getting critical mass.

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[-] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago
[-] Draegur@lemmy.zip 8 points 3 months ago

Fuck Facebook. Anyway, i prefer social media that doesn't doxx me

[-] DoctimusLime@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 3 months ago

All I see on Facebook is my family slowly being radicalised into nazi beliefs, fck Zuckerberg and fck big tech!

[-] JovialSodium@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 months ago

Perhaps there are local classifieds or marketplaces you could use? For example, one of the local news services in my area runs one that's well known and active.

[-] Feedback17@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Asswipe Zuckerberg treats people like bots and bots like kings. Screw him.

[-] procapra@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 months ago

Facebook is what free'd me of having to interact with my local DSA /hj

Local DSA posts everything on facebook, I don't have facebook and won't post my face onto there to make it happen.

I email them but they just tell me check the facebook

I try to join the discord but they want to see me at events first, which I can't find, because they are posted on the facebook and I can only scroll down 3 posts before I get asked to login.

I give them my number and my signal but they don't reach out.

🙃

[-] wickedrando@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Good thing for you, that's terrible OpSec.

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[-] hector@lemmy.today 4 points 3 months ago

I only use for marketplace as well. I've never submitted a picture of myself either, about the only person remaining in the country it appears. I felt weird about it for a while after absolutely everyone else did, now I feel vindicated.

The day they demand facial recognition is the day I quit using it, losing access to used goods be damned.

[-] fakasad68@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

I thought they've always been doing it, I never succeeded creating a facebook account because of it

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