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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.
I’ve barely used mine for years. Deleting it is feels much more satisfying and final.
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 deployed a Lemmy instance to use… not sure if there’s anything better
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.
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.
Same. I live on an island and the only way to sell anything is on two fb groups. Craigslist is there but half the time you get people on the big island and have to take a ferry to sell. I’m thinking of starting a small website/app, not sure it will take off though.
If you cant get people on craigslist, the most well known fixed rock of online classifieds…I don’t know that your app will take off. OfferUp and the other one also tried to knock out marketplace and failed.
Offerup, letgo, mercari, etsy, there’s a million online 3PMs. (3rd party marketplaces). Refine the idea or scrap it. This guys right.
One can hope it turns into a flea market. Off the side of the hideway everyone passes but few seldom go.
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.
Marketplace needs to die, it’s got most of the downsides of craigslist except for making it super easy for prospective purchasers to spam “still available?” Ad nauseum
Put pressure on the group owners to pack it up and move the group elsewhere. Where the group goes, they’ll follow.
they will never understand and ignore you since you’re the only one complaining anyways
Also Facebook Groups for obscure things, Facebook Marketplace, and even a lot of local political organizations primarily use Instagram
i tried to avoid it and deny it forever but facebook marketplace has really destroyed craigslist. so lame
I just had a successful transaction on Craigslist today. Don’t give up the dream!
the real guide we need is how to remove Facebook from the internet
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
Do they have Facebook trackers embedded in their page? I’ll bet they do.
LOL! They’re not even pretending to be a news outlet anymore.
(Let’s see how many people miss the projecting by saying I’m missing the “joke”.)
Woosh
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.
Mario is the black sheep of the family now
Mario needs to step up
&& sudo apt autoremove
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
Unfortunately, unscrupulous companies can build shadow profiles that bypass cookie and storage based isolation techniques like this.
Your browser gives off a lot of information. See here for some of the information they can use: https://amiunique.org
You’re best off blocking things with uBlock Origin vs something that just isolates.
That feels like the opposite of deleting your account or blocking them
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.
Thanks, I Hate It
At the router. That is where I delete it.
Didn’t work; deleted my account but Facebook still exists. Bad guide 0/10
Sadly I cant delete WhatsApp because eveyone in my country uses it :c
Supreme Commanders of a few nations have that proverbial red button to delete anything (customizable selection of what to delete, too). You just have to get in contact with one of them, call them for a cup of coffee. Ask them to rid you of that problem.
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 don’t think that most of the lemmy crowd needs this info to beginn with…
But we may have friends and family members asking about it
And surely we would be happy to help if asked.
fuck!
i made a filter with words “zuckerberg” and “meta” but not “facebook”
Good call.
I deleted my account back in 2013. One thing I didn’t really think about was that someone else could spin up an account and pretend to be you after you leave. When I found out that someone did this I don’t think I did anything about it, I just looked at the account, cringed, and closed the window and never went back.
Tldr: u cant
TL;DR Only if you misunderstand the intent of the word “delete”.
In the sense of getting rid of the sites themselves, sure, that’ll never happen.
And in the sense that once you’re known to them you’ll never be forgotten, at least not without a massive lawsuit that you’ve little chance of winning, yes.
But you can ask Meta to delete your account(s) and everything visibly associated with you to the point that you no longer have a presence on any of their sites, and that’s what this article is about.
One of the reasons Meta has been creating fake AI-based accounts is because so many people are doing this and they don’t like it and want to make it look like their site is still active. Which is an excellent reason to delete your accounts, even if they weren’t also doing a bunch of other heinous things.
And you can delete the apps from your phone. You should delete your accounts first though.
In the UE we have the GDPR.
I often vpn into Europe to make gdpr request lol.
I only use it for messenger. And only then because it still has chat bubbles. There are many better messengers. But they don’t have chat bubbles that draw over other apps.
I haven’t posted on FB in years.
Signal has chat bubbles
On Android, all messaging apps have bubbles.
