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I deleted Facebook 12 years ago. Just join me on the fediverse like Mbin or Mastodon.
This is not my being snarky, but I bet you didn't. I bet you "deleted it" and Facebook will happily reactivate it for you any time they want
So Zuck can boast about "hAvInG 3 bIllIoN uSeRs"
true, you can't trust them.. so who knows.
Do you do much buying and selling of used goods?
In my area, Facebook Marketplace is unparalleled, alternatives such as Craigslist don't come close.
The Netherlands has marktplaats app for this. Our local app in our country. No fb needed.
Mastodon is pretty awful still. Microblogging in general is awful but Mastodon has some particularly (in my opinion) awful fundamental design decisions. I don't want to hate on them, so I won't discuss what those things are. I appreciate that it exists and hope it does see more adoption but it's just not for me, and I don't know that it ever will be.
Add to that that I've never spoken to a human IRL that even knows what it is, and it's not because I don't ask. And that makes social media pretty unsocial.
Facebook has a ridiculous number of things you can do with a single account. On fedi those things all require different accounts and require people to follow all those different accounts. Bonfire looks like it may be a potential solution for that in the future.
Not saying that Facebook is great, at all, but that fedi isn't really a suitable alternative.
At the end of the day people obviously just don't care enough about any of these problems and have no self-respect and I've just pretty much sequestered myself from society entirely.
Try my project Mbin.