this post was submitted on 30 Apr 2026
502 points (99.4% liked)

Technology

84274 readers
3305 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 hours ago

I never got it anyway, right from the beginning. Why would I want to tell everybody my business, and why would I want to know everybody else's business?

I opened an account in my name at the beginning, so I could lock it down, but I never did anything with it. No profile info, posts, nothing. I have to do some Instagram for my business, but it's very inconsistent. Now and then I get a good photo, and I'll think to post it, but rarely.

[–] Lightsong@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago

I can't wait to see Facebook to go away.

One of side hustle I do is tech support for senior people in my community. And amount of time I have to deal with stuff related to Facebook is staggering.

So many of seniors have multiple accounts because they don't understand how it work and just hit whatever buttons they see pop up until they get back into Facebook feed. So it's not user friendly and even worse, UI get changed constantly and I have to Google around across multiple threads different forums, etc to find answers. And so many more issues, I couldn't list them all.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

But it down.

[–] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 5 points 8 hours ago
[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Good to see people may finally be waking up to the idea that these companies are trash.

[–] Tiral@lemmy.zip 12 points 12 hours ago

That's awesome. Facebook is a freaking plague.

[–] mitch404@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

This fucking site, I swear... I want to delete my account. But my account is blocked. I never used Facebook on another device than my PC, never on mobile. And to unlock my account to delete it, I have to... log in from another device. No other way. I tried everything, and the best is, their fucking customer centre is a useless chatbot. I hate this.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be amazing that some kind of hacker group would delete accounts on request, as long as these accounts aren't actively used?

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Wow hackerman should uhhh hack Facebook that'd be awesome they should do all these good things!

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Let me guess. You think this is impossible.

[–] ILoveUnions@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Few things are impossible, but it'd definitely be a lot harder than you are imagining.

[–] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

No, I don't think so. Dreaming is free, though.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 hours ago

Do you really not have access to another internet device? A friend or parent’s phone with a private browser window?

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

I deleted my account and it was reactivated 3 years later because they didn’t want to show less users to shareholders

[–] BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm in the same boat. I even tried emailing them my license. There is nothing I can do to delete my account from highschool.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

because fake users drive advertising revenue.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 4 hours ago

That's it. Follow the money. It's ALL that matters.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

wonder if you told them you moved to the EU and they needed to comply with GDPR

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

Just start posting a bunch of political content they don't agree with to get your account deleted.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 20 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

It’s probably because Israel was getting bombed last month and their bots were temporarily unavailable.

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

I wonder if that metric counted users active in their comments plugin. They sunset that comments plugin around Jan or Feb ‘26

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 19 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

That's my guess also. Probably some botnet went offline 6 or 12 or 36 months ago and the new accounts timed out.

[–] emerycan4@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised honestly, their stuff is getting boring and there are far better platforms this time. I hope they do something about their whole whatever..

[–] username123@sh.itjust.works 8 points 12 hours ago

I hope they don't and finally die

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 16 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

20 million actual users or 20 million ai bots.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 16 points 18 hours ago

I'd assume the bot count is increasing, not decreasing.

[–] Balldowern@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago (2 children)
[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so old I remember when Facebork was just for young people.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I'm so old I remember when Facebook didn't exist :)

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Shit, I remember when Nixon resigned. I also remember thinking that Nixon was as bad as Republicans could ever get.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

I was out after dark, riding bikes with my best friend in the street in front of his house. My friend's mom came out and shouted at me to go home, and my friend to go inside. Then she shouted "That asshole, Ford, pardoned Nixon!" I had no idea what she was talking about, or why she was mad at us.

[–] TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com 3 points 11 hours ago

same. I keep thinking "it can't get worse than this," and republicans say: "Hold my beer."

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 hours ago

Harley Davidson effect.

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We feed meta billions of dollars and all our data, watch out what they are going to do, they already approached the fediverse and tried to make their move there.

[–] RustyShackleford@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

I don't understand. Did they try to buy Lemmy?

[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

Threads can interact with the fediverse, when meta rolled in the platform there were many talks about unfederating with them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36384207

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

No, they hosted their own instance... or at least that is what i understand

[–] alpha1beta@piefed.social 145 points 1 day ago (36 children)
load more comments (36 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›