Gizmodo's post on this has the most honest title: A Lot of People Are Searching for How to Delete Facebook and Instagram, and We Would Like Their Clicks
this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2025
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Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.
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Real question is, how can I uninstall Zuckerberg...
That requires an adjuster
a special adjuster that andy has left at the office...
Don’t stop there:
sudo apt purge billionaires
Luigi isn’t a second rate character anymore.
&& sudo apt autoremove
How to delete is not the problem. That's the trivial part. In fact, you don't even need to delete your account. Just stop using it and it's practically the same effect.
The problem is how to get your friends and acquintances out of there. Lots of things are there and only there. Like for instance, it's my jujitsu club's main place of information. If I quit FB, I will no longer know what's happening there.
The only thing keeping my meta account alive is Marketplace. Unfortunately, it’s much busier than Craigslist in my area.
Facebook has become a dirty flea market for me.
Yeah the world moved from Craigslist to marketplace before I did. I found out the hard way when nothing was selling.
One thing I like about marketplace is you can view someone’s profile to see if they are an actual human that lives near you.
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Put pressure on the group owners to pack it up and move the group elsewhere. Where the group goes, they’ll follow.
This is the problem I've run into. I wanted to stay as part of a social group I'm nominally in, but that group's only presence is on Facebook. And the group admins don't want to move somewhere else because a) it's change, and b) there aren't many other options as good at managing such groups.
On a related topic, does anyone know of a good Federated alternative to Facebook. Or at least an alternative that's less ad-riddled and more privacy-conscious)?
I looked around online last night and all the articles out there suggested things like Reddit, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter as Facebook alternatives, which are wrong on so many levels. I'm not that bothered about getting an alternative myself since I barely used FB anyway. But being my extended family's tech support, I keep getting asked about what good alternatives are out there. I'm finding nothing, but I'm likely missing a good Federated option.
I haven’t used it in a long time but I think Diaspora is intended as a decentralized FB clone. https://diasporafoundation.org/
I’m not sure if it uses ActivityPub or its own thing. It’s been around for awhile so it may predate ActivityPub.
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Deleted everything Meta related in 2022. I have no regrets. Zuck can Suck it
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Unfortunately it has been demonstrated through whitehat research that simply deleting your old account is relatively useless. They have shadow profiles of users based on probabilistic data. For example, say your spouse with her decades old account keeps making posts about what you ate on date night, your trip to Cabo, or worse yet she posts a bunch of pictures of her, you, and the kids. Facebook makes a shell profile based on this conception of "you" and begins aggregating all the info it can about this person.
More over, every time an acquaintance of yours gives their FB app permissions to access their contacts (to suggest Friends or whatever) if your contact info is on the list, FB now has your real name, your email, your mobile phone number, etc. You never opted in, but it doesnt matter - other people are opting you into FB data collection all the time, unless you literally don't tell anyone your real phone number or email address.
You need to block all their domains/IP ranges too otherwise they’re still profiting from profiling you across apps and websites.
Or install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/facebook-container/ for the less tech savvy / lazy
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Remember to hit the gym and lawyer up next.
This is a reference I haven't seen in YEARS.
Damn that takes me back.
I had to look it up myself, but it appears to be divorce advice (hit the gym, lawyer up, delete facebook)
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Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c
At the router. That is where I delete it.
Where's the article on how to profit off of racist idiots on Facebook?
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Do it! Delete it.
fuck!
i made a filter with words "zuckerberg" and "meta" but not "facebook"
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Unfortunately, I'm keeping mine to make a pipeline from there to actual content on Mastodon or BlueSky. But I basically put a URL in my bio and push a photo once a week.
I deleted my FB account years and years ago, and AFAIK it has never broken into my house and forced me to look at it. But of course Bonespurs takes office pretty soon so I guess nothing is certain.
Is the process different from it was in 2015?
Now you must sacrifice your first born.
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