• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    This might actually end up being a good thing. If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us. It seems bad, but there are a lot of people willing to correct their misinformation.

    On the flipside, why are people still using facebook? It’s like 90% AI slop these days.

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      15 hours ago

      This might actually end up being a good thing.

      Is there any analysis of the efficacy of Community Notes on Xitter?

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      why are people still using facebook?

      Same reason people are still using Instagram and Xitter. Social Graph. FB has 3B MAU.

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      The community notes appear many hours after the original has been posted, meaning that majority of interactions will be before any notes will be attached. And even the process of choosing the community notes is not transparent, so you can never be sure that the note does its job even after it’d added.

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      If users can fact-check stuff instead of relying kn Meta to do it for us.

      The idea of this being useful assumes meta won’t be removing community notes they don’t like.

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      why are people still using facebook?

      I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone https://gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I’m all ears eyes.

      I asked the attendees about how they’d feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don’t want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.

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          There are attendees who are both younger and older than me (mid-30s). To be fair, the group already gets <10 people per event on average, so I don’t think I could risk the slice right now. If we grew to over double that, then maybe I could revisit the topic.

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          They’re normal people. This is a common reaction. Most people don’t give two shits about half the stuff we care about here on Lemmy. Nobody here is an average web user.

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            I cant even get my wife to quit using Facebook. She knows why I don’t use it, and she just doesn’t give a crap about privacy. I have lost my temperature before about her constant use of technology that is essentially surveillance tools.

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              Add the add-on/extension NoScript to her browser and at least have it block fbsbx.com, which seems to be totally unnecessary to allow, as the rest of the website seems to still function perfectly fine.