What do people do there that is so harmful to their mental health? I just follow what relatives are up to and read the latest hobby/town gossip

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

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Originally the criticism was that you see the highlights of other people's lives and then compare that to your everyday life and that's depressing.

Nowadays I think it's all the politics being injected everywhere. Me? I look for cars and car parts on groups. That's about it.

Literally all I see are ads, I guess you need friends for it to be addictive or something...

I really wish my city would get off its collective ass and stop using marketplace.

This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.

You don’t hear many openly conservative tech billionaires talking like he does.

I honestly don't know how I could use Facebook that way. Seriously. I log in once in a blue moon, and half the stuff I see scrolling through the main feed has nothing to do with any of my friends as far as I can tell. And that's with an ad blocker.

I don't understand how anybody can stand it. Maybe it's a "boiling frog" situation, or maybe they've developed better counter-strategies than I am familiar with? I quit Facebook about 10 years ago and when I poke my head in now, it's completely different. It is terrible in ways I wouldn't have believed 10 years ago.

No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like... your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it's like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I'm including any social network where "me" is the main focus.

All I see if I scroll is AI slop. Hundred different variations of one theme or another in different groups or pages I've never subscribed to.

I go straight to Marketplace or whatever group I need and that's it these days.

How have they failed? they have the best value for $ headset.

Right? AI-generated pictures of Scarlett Johansen as a flight attendant praising Jesus, or an African kid making sculptures of Jesus out of trash. And all the comments just being 'Amen' spam. Bots on top of bots. It's just fucking dystopian.

Autonomous warplanes "that fly missions alongside human pilots".

I'm sure they'll keep the humams involved. No way they're trying to build a drone army that won't question orders.

It's not hyperbole to say they're working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/39876981

Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them

Autonomous warplanes "that fly missions alongside human pilots".

I'm sure they'll keep the humams involved. No way they're trying to build a drone army that won't question orders.

It's not hyperbole to say they're working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.

Gosh, they're burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR...

I’m gonna die telling fascists to eat a bag of dicks as they try to arrest me for talking shit about Israel on my own Lemmy instance. That’s the country these fascists are shaping for us. An AI-driven hellscape.

Ooo can I join orcas.enjoying.yachts?