Submitted 3 days ago by tauren@lemm.ee to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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I wanted to buy something second-hand. Unfortunately, Facebook Marketplace is the shit where I live. So I thought I could quickly register, contact the seller, and delete my account afterwards.
However, I refuse to participate in this insanity. Video selfie my ass, Facebook.
Pretty sure Instagram also requires something similar in some cases. I tried to make an account recently to see an artist’s full postings and it eventually asked me to verify I am a human by submitting a selfie picture
Instagram is also owned by Meta… so I’m not sure why there’s any surprise there.
Next up, WhatsApp will probably require a full contact sync or something lol.
Yeah instagram do that too get an account back after they lock it even though you have the password etc but haven’t signed in for to long.
They then compare that to photos of you on your account.
My problem is I have 1 photo of me on the account from years ago and the rest are landscape stuff so despite having all the information I can’t access my account
Just submit a tree
What would they even compare the picture to…
I am fairly certain it hasn’t got anything to do with “confirming you’re a human”. and probably with getting more data into your pipeline for AI training…among other things that they do. like sell your shit to a 3rd party
Guess the silver lining of this particular instance of dystopian tech-bro fascist nightmare stuff is that it causes more friction, and less people to join up.
I was banned from Facebook. Because I commented on a pro civil war post by a bot. Saying I’d gladly meet any of these confederates on the field of battle. Guess FB is protecting these bots because it gets so much traction with the terrorists sympathizers on the right. Go figure. 20 year old acct nuked. Lost so many photos.
I’ve reported so many fake accounts and accounts promoting right wing violence or blatant racist and every single time they send a report back saying the account/comment doesn’t violate any rules.
I was religiously reporting people. I used to have protection because I was fighting the good fight. But one bad dark joke. And I was banned. It’s a litmus for how terrible the sites have become.
That’s on you for using facebook to upload and store pictures. You learned an important lesson that day.
Absolute clown show.
Ease of use is a forgotten artform it seems
ofc not to train ai
Are there any fediversians out there familiar with friendica? From what I can tell, it looks like a FOSS equivalent to Facebook. I was never really into Facebook or Instagram, so on the surface it seems to tick the boxes, but I appreciate they have addiction tier levels of interaction with the majority of people around me, so differences will be glaring for hardcore users.
My partner is an artist, and she’s been trialling pixelfed for me; all seems to be going smoothly, but the older generations are FB diehards, so if I have any chance of adoption, it has to be something closer to that experience.
I’m looking to potentially spin up an instance for friends and family to migrate to. They currently have the desire due to the stream of enshittification we’re seeing; but people are fickle and I’ve no doubt that desire can be extinguished by the slightest inconvenience. so any insight on what’s good and what’s missing regarding friendica (or other FB FOSS alternatives), is definitely appreciated.
afaik Friendica is the closest to Facebook usage among Fediverse platforms, im not aware of new features on Facebook since I quit it a few years ago but for ordinary people i only think to be missing games i know some people used (do they still?) to play to get “achievements” which they could share they got it, i’d usually see it more often from farming or guitar hero-like games, other than that they have plenty of stuff that you won’t find in other Fediverse platforms but its also not a platform where you’ll find general instances with as many people as in Lemmy/Mastodon/Pixelfed general instances but since you are willing to host for yourself and your friends it might be worth it, you can even have your own RSS feeds within Friendica and browse posts from other platforms outside the Fediverse, you can check the features list on friendi.ca/about/features
The only reason I have a frednica is because that’s where I chill and hang out with the Fediverse Chick.
Stop using that shit, your life will be better for it.
Can confirm. Life is extremely relaxing after getting a FB ban. Just wish I had the pics that I lost.
Well, this is everyone else’s reminder to download their pictures now then! Thank you for your sacrifice 🫡
I was going to sign up a couple of years ago for the same reason - marketplace - but they wanted a picture selfie then and that was enough to stop me.
I used a burner sim and a fake video. You could generate it with AI or even a good 3d model.
The dickvid potential is there.
The same thing happened to me recently. I used my friend’s phone to play this video in front of the camera, and it worked.
lol wot
eventually they will want a dna sample
Sir please drink a verification can.
Oh no thanks I’m going to pass on that
use AI
So you’re forced to give them potential blackmail i?
I wish I didn’t have to use Facebook.
You don’t. I deleted my FB account years ago. Honestly, I do miss Marketplace, and I wish someone would come out with a buy/sell app to replace Marketplace—without all the BS
I am in entertainment and it’s where most of my contacts are. I am stuck with it.
I gave up on Facebook when they banned my account for the second time after providing evidence that I exist in both cases.
Technically, my account is still “under review”, for the past 8 years.
I used this name, Mystik Incarnate, because, believe it or not, there are more people who know me by this name, compared to how many know me by my legal name.
I remember that Facebook challenged my name back in the day, like 10+ years ago. I took a form of ID and made it say “Mystik Incarnate” as my name, sent that in, and they unblocked my account for a while. A few years later and they did it again. By then, I was already on the fence whether or not I wanted to maintain a Facebook account… But I submitted basically the same thing and… Well… It’s still “being reviewed”.
I do have an account under my legal name, mainly as a collector of messages for people that know me professionally or something that are trying to reach out. I check it every few months at most; but that account has no friends, no connections, nothing. I only keep it so people can message me. I don’t use their apps or anything, I only log in on the website and usually incognito so that they can’t track me across the web.
Every time I see someone’s logged in Facebook account, I’m disgusted by how cancerous it has become. Anyone who reaches out to me on that platform I usually try to have them connect with me by email, or some other chat program that’s more trustworthy.
Fuck Meta.
Weird nowadays many people I know are using alias on FB without incident. It’s a safety issue for women.
Facebook: not then, not now, not ever.
Is there a good 2nd hand market beside FB now? We are buying our first house and will be needing some stuff once we move in. My account is long gone and my wife’s is deactivated, close to closing it out. We have some good antique and thrifts around us, but my SIL gets killer deals on FB market.
some areas have active nextdoor.com marketplaces, but you have to prove your residence by receiving a code in the mail.
Doesn’t seem to be in my country yet, but apparently it’s in a few other EU countries so there’s hope yet!
In the meantime I log into Facebook when I need to buy used car parts. There’s other sites but it’s nowhere near as usable as just writing “hey someone wanna sell me a 3.0 tdi (BMK/ASB) turbo pls” into the Audi group on Facebook. Such is the life of driving shitboxes anyway.
or alternatively, if you explicitly want to buy something from woman: girlnextdoor.com
for us it’s craigslist
Depending on where you live you always got something eg: craigslist or whatever.
You know what’s funny about that? Facebook banned me several months ago claiming a problem with community guidelines despite the fact that I was only using it to connect to an app that required it to save progress.
Leave it to Fuckerberg
Maybe all a friend for help? That’s my strategy and I have an active account. I just didn’t want to look at it
Yeah, that’s a good idea. Thanks.
Instead of sacrificing your friend’s face to Facebook, you can sacrifice an AI-generated face. I commented above:
You can bypass this via github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam. You can get the faces needed from thispersondoesnotexist.com. Although if you are privacybro, there’s no documentation yet for running Deep Live Cam on Linux. This method is more private than using phone numbers since you can do this with disposable emails.
Fuck that shit.
This is not really the invasion of privacy it seems when you compare it to everything else facebook will do with your information.
That doesn’t make this any better, just makes YOU feel better about it
I think it’s a good way to remind you right up front when you sign up that this is what you’re signing up for. Honestly if last week I had been asked to choose between a world in which facebook makes its invasiveness painfully clear at signup vs keeps it low-key, I would choose the former.
Huh. F u Facebook.
At least they didn’t ask you for butt sharpies.
yet
Would signing up with a PC instead of the mobile app solve that? A lot of PC’s don’t have webcams.
This might help, I made my last account a few months back and only had to provide a selfie photo (which I got from here)
Lol genius!
Sadly it does seem to be very popular but I am sure there are some niche forums specific for certain items like tech related ones which also has a marketplace for tech products, audiophile ones for audio gear etc. I joined one to buy something and ended up being a part of the great community now so hopefully something works out for you as well.
What’s the point when the intent is to make most users on there AI bots anyways
missandry351@lemmings.world 3 days ago
What’s next? Fingerprints? Criminal record? DNA? Retina scans? It’s like people are joining CIA and not a social media site
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 3 days ago
If Futurama is to be trusted, one of the upcoming technologies in biometric data will be “colonic maps.” No doubt, Facebook would anally probe us all if they could.
kerntucky@infosec.pub 2 days ago
That episode popped into my head, too.
Here’s a clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZJhczSQ6M