| ▲ | pj_mukh 2 hours ago |
| I would pay $49.99/mo for an unlimited plan that brings me only my friends' status updates (not their hyper-political likes and comments), just their life updates. Daily stories are great too. But JUST that, no influencers, no ads. I realize Meta's data shows that our user revealed preferences tells them that we like all the dopamine hijacking garbage but that's like saying "Well users like drugs, so we gave them more". Let me pay you to give me just the vitamins, and none of the sugar. |
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| ▲ | captn3m0 a few seconds ago | parent | next [-] |
| Meta offers it in EU: https://about.fb.com/news/2024/11/facebook-and-instagram-to-... I’ve been considering it but I am not sure if it drops just ads or suggested posts as well. |
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| ▲ | canyp 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Why? You are still giving up privacy. There is 0 reason to be using Meta products, let alone pay for them. |
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| ▲ | tim-projects an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Pay each of your friends $50 one per month, to switch to signal. Problem solved |
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| ▲ | lukeschlather an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it. Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook, with the assumption that data is precious and you want to share it with your community, and you should err on the side of oversharing so you don't lose any precious moments. Signal is in no way a replacement for Facebook. | | |
| ▲ | tim-projects 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | > Signal is designed with the assumption that data is sensitive and you should err on the side of destroying it. That's... Just not true > Facebook is designed more as a shared scrapbook Have you used Facebook in the last 5 years? Its nothing like this at all. | |
| ▲ | DANmode 28 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | It is if Facebook was never a good fit for you in the first place. |
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| ▲ | freedomben an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | $50 per month for unlimited, not $50 per friend, so your solution only works if you only have 1 friend, so it would work for me (self-deprecating joke) but may not for GP. | | |
| ▲ | lostlogin an hour ago | parent [-] | | > Pay each of your friends $50 one per month It an outlay of $50 a moth. Probably better to pay 50/number of friends though. | | |
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| ▲ | fsflover an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Or, better, Mastodon or Matrix, which don't rely on a single, easy-to-target server. | | |
| ▲ | dreamcompiler an hour ago | parent [-] | | This works for friends and family members who are computer geeks. Signal for everybody else. | | |
| ▲ | fsflover 40 minutes ago | parent [-] | | I don't see what's missing in Matrix. Yes, the verification may be somewhat cumbersome, but I helped to deal with it, and it just works now. | | |
| ▲ | hgoel 10 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | A friend and I have been running a private Matrix server for almost a decade now, it's very lacking in comparison to what the average chat user (especially discord) is used to. No custom emojis, no self-chat, embeds are inconsistent (e.g. encrypted rooms), multi-image uploads aren't a thing in many clients, adding text when sending an attachment isn't a thing, just to name things we've run into over the years. Most of these have been brought up to the devs many years ago, only to spend forever in spec hell and never actually make it into a release. We're just tolerating these, because we explicitly moved off discord to have control over our data, but being tech savvy we can handle this. It's nowhere near good enough that I could use it with less savvy people. | |
| ▲ | john01dav 34 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Everything about matrix is cumbersome and glitchy. I have last tried to use it a few years ago and it seemed that Riot/Element had the only decent clients, and those were all Electron on desktop and also seemingly for profit. Signal has the electron problem, as well as many others (like the backup UI being abhorrent), but at least the core functionality works without fuss. |
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| ▲ | uyzstvqs an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| What you need is the Stories feature in Signal, then donate that $49.99/month (or however much you want) to their foundation. |
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| ▲ | bflesch an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Nah once they know you can be fleeced for $50 per month, they also know there is much more money to extract from you. Their advertisers would be mad if they remove this juicy cohort of moneybags from their audience. |
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| ▲ | jsrozner an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| This is absurd. You're just asking for reasonable control over data that ostensibly belongs to you. Moreover, this minimum functionality was resolved years ago with RSS. That you'd be willing to pay so much reflects how well every tech company is doing at using tech against its own users. |
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| ▲ | pj_mukh an hour ago | parent [-] | | Ehhh, what I'm paying for is FB/Insta's ability to bring everyone onto one platform and encourage them to post regularly. RSS, AOL Messenger etc, never were able to do that with any decent success. That they went past that to just kill their own golden goose is what is now reversible via a payment plan. That might be their only saving grace on this now managed decline. |
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