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My country heavily uses Facebook for all events. Sadly I can't find cool events without it. Even leftist groups are heavily on Meta, which I can't understand....

Does anyone have experience pushing to get communities off of Meta? Suggestions?

I'm in a NATO "ally" to the US country

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[โ€“] brunchyvirus@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago

I haven't had Facebook in I dont know how many years. It was really depressing for a few years afterwards, since I didn't get the constant stream of updates from friends.

Facebook basically turned into the largest database of personal information of everyone on the planet. I mean remember those security questions like your mother's maiden name, or town you grew up in, first girlfriend...Yeah I'm sure they have it.

What annoys me the most though is how so many communities still rely on Facebook/Twitter for official messaging. If there is a wildfire and I go to my counties website to look for updates, it points me to Facebook which I can't check without an account. I bought ham radios because when there is an emergency mostly older people are on their giving updates from different cities.

Most countries are trying to move away from depending US technology companies, in my opinion if there was even some online message board local governments started for providing announcements, and had groups for like a marketplace, or just other things that would be a good step.