Anyone who quits Meta says Mark Zuckerberg is a colossal dick.

It’s not virtue signalling if you truly mean it.

Our feeds should be our own.

I quit Crackbook a decade ago over the algorithm forcing shit at me I had no interest in.

That’s when I learned what a dark pattern was. I started seeing it pop up nearly everywhere that used algorithms.

Did the same with Twatter a few years ago. Again, I was over being forced to see shit I had zero interest in. This time I removed my footprint, leaving a handful of posts.

No one noticed either time I’d left. (No one ever does. That’s a whole other rant about the state of anti social media.)

Never used Threads. Won’t even click on the ones that are shoved at me through Insta.

Kept Insta for patterns and recipes, and over time I’ve stopped engaging on the platform. It’s just as bad as the others for the algorithm and ads. Staying is on me, I know. Sunk cost fallacy or whatever. I didn’t want to lose my collection of patterns that exist no where else.

I started the process of removing what little remains of my presence on IG. Discovered I’m not allowed to remove likes ‘to protect the community’. Deleting my own content bugs out often. Removing saved bookmarks bugs out often. No way to keep the videos I refer to often to make things.

Damned straight I mean it when I say I will cease using Meta products. I am tired of being told how to use something, or how I should think and what I should believe.

Zuck can fuck all the way off.

You know, some people actually try to be good people.

Fuckerberg.

so he admits it’s virtuous… just that he thinks some people are doing it disingenuously…?

My virtues are signaling over here

I quit facebook during the obama administration lol

Ah, so he admits that it is virtuous!

If quitting your site can be taken as virtue signaling against misinformation and bigotry, your site may have some systemic issues.

Well then, since 2016 I’ve been a Virtue signaling mother fucker. Fuck Zuck!

The phrase “virtue signalling” is itself a form of virtue signalling 😏

I’m not “virtue signaling” I’m tired. I’m tired of the ads.

I’m tired of the algorithm intentionally fueling flame wars.

I’m tired of INESCAPABLE “meme pages,” run by spam bots, that just recycle the same tired shit over and over and over again.

I’m tired of the THREE different video systems that are inexplicably not interoperable. Reels, Facebook Live, and video Instagram posts all showing up in my timeline but all are part of separate systems. Meanwhile, if I share a link to a YouTube video, it gets suppressed by the almighty algorithm. Because how dare I show my followers/friends something they’d might like to see if it takes their eyeballs away from Facebook.

Finally, I’m tired of companies selling people like me down the river to score political points with chuds.

Looks like he is starting to follow Elon down into the rabbit hole off asshattery.

I’m not sure if this headline meets the criteria for not the onion.

Guess I was “virtue signalling” back before the term was even coined.