I don’t really use facebook anymore so couldn’t care less; but so happened to log in today to change my password and saw this on my front page.

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    76·
    8 months ago

    Other than YouTube, I’m basically off all of these centralized social media platforms and it feels great.

    I do need to occasionally use Facebook for market place and messenger for contacting business.

    Basically every business operates over messenger where I live.

    • viking@infosec.pubOP
      19·
      8 months ago

      Yes same for me, whatsapp is pretty much the only “genuine” communication channel. I only keep a presence on facebook since I have to move countries frequently for work, and the “expats in $city” groups are quite helpful to find people, and then move the discussions off-platform :-)

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Not really, I am in a third would country and if you call the landline, you still have to pay by the minute. Most businesses do not even have a landline to contact. Typically they give a viber number or messenger number.

        Even when I needed to get a rabies shot, my wife found a place on facebook. They did not even have a website of their own. Sadly that is how the internet works where I live.

    • bluGill@kbin.social
      6·
      8 months ago

      I’m trying to encourage people to move to peertube. Not much content there, but i’ll reward what intersting content I find. You should too

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Thanks! I always forget about that platform. I did see he made a video about that. I’ll watch it on odyssey now

      • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        I don’t like that it doesn’t save video progress mid video. It also is not very reliable for me, so I use an iOS extension called vinegar and use YouTube through a browser.

        • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 months ago

          Piped.video does though, if that’s what you want. Yes, reliability is a problem; I’m just waiting for when I’ll host my own piped instance

          • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            I will check it out again. I thought it only marked videos as played but did not save the position in the video when you stopped watching.