I virtue signaled 7 years ago when the whole Cambridge Analytica scandal broke, realizing that Facebook is a seedy company that can't be trusted.
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Same, also, Zuckerberg has always been a sketch ball who does anti-social and user hostile things with his app, so it was just years of being fed up with that. 2017 was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.
"Signaled" my "virtue" in 2016. Fuck you, zuck.
Zuck is a fucking piece a shit. But the headline and article misrepresents what he was saying. His actual quote was "Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling" and appears to be directed towards users, not Meta employees.
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Your hubris is showing, Fuckerberg.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who calls him that. Same think.
he means 'is showing virtue'. And he's right.
It’s kinda crazy how fast he’s unraveling into the right-wing griftersphere. Does Thiel or Putin have something on him?
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When I was a teen, I thought anyone who joins it is virtue signaling.
The title alone shows admittance that leaving Meta signals virtue and good character.
Will this decade be known as "the decade when billionares spiralled out of control"? First Musk then this android.
Imagine what Rockefeller and Carnegie would have tweeted about. You know they were crass, detached from reality hemorrhoid clusters, they just didn't get to spew it to a global audience 900 times a day.
They saw Elons return for a 230 million investment and want even more. Hopefully they overreach and we can finally rid ourselves of the billionaires.
isn't this giant sack of shit laying off like 1000 employees?
“Some people may leave our platforms for virtue signaling, but I think the vast majority and many new users will find that these changes make the products better”
So he's stripping away protections for marginalised groups to appeal to the "vast majority" who, by definition, don't need these protections and are in no way negatively impacted by their existence. Got it, and fuck you very much.
Oh no, not virtue signaling! There truly is no greater crime! Specifically, it isn't worse to be an overly-built, soulless chia pet if that's what you're thinking. Definitely not.
Joke's on him. I quit before it was Meta.
Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters
He wasn't. Mark used to be a sweet kid, but he's been radicalised by all the shit he reads on Facebook. It's not too late, Mark, delete your social media profiles, stay away from that poisonous hellhole!
Nah these billionaires don’t align on the modern left wing right wing spectrum, they are all a special kind of hardcore libertarian. The only ideology they have is that they should be able to do whatever they want to earn their next billion. Him appeasing right wingers fits his MO, but doesn’t make him a right winger.
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Banning gender-neutral bathrooms and spinning to anti-woke isn't virtue signalling...
It’s vice signaling. There’s nothing virtuous about Meta or Zuckerberg. Let’s not forget his first try was a hot or not clone with pictures of women he used without consent.
And that new perm he got definitely isn’t virtuous.
He looks like a token butch lesbian from a cheap horror movie
…or off-brand hip-hop crunch cereal.
Out of the loop here, so let me get this straight: Did they build gender-neutral bathrooms that are now gendered by placing a sticker on the door? What on earth could be the purpose of that?
gendered by placing a sticker on the door
We have that at my work, but they are still gender-neutral bathrooms when the other one is in use and someone needs to use it. You can’t really ungender-neutral those bathrooms.
The fact that this clown even felt the need to talk about this shows that a noteworthy number of people are leaving the platform.
It's a slow burn, but legacy social media must die.
This is exactly the kind of thing a loser would say. Loser CEOs are always whining about people leaving their platform. Winners keep their head down and build something their users actually enjoy using.
Ah yes, the feed starting with an ad, followed by a reels module alternating between soft porn and dogs, followed by bots and more ads, maybe interspersed with a couple of posts by people whose names I recognize for good measure, are well worth my time. No need to virtue signal, I'm hooked!
Why, yes, Im signaling that I have virtues, which is why I am not on your site Zuckerboi.
Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.
Second, that's kinda rich coming from the guy who's been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.
Kind of like wearing a red MAGA hat.
What should we call blatant pandering to Trump and his ilk? MAGA signaling?
Maybe saying you’re quitting meta is “virtue signalling” but actually quitting is virtuous.
Lotta reasons and responses here i plan on using for when i finally make my "fuck you all i quit" post this weekend.
Bruh they're taking action. It's virtue actioning. Unless you're trying to tell them they need to do something more dramatic?
No, shit for brains, giving up your job is an actual commitment. Virtue signaling is a token gesture that costs you nothing - like throwing a million dollars at an inauguration party when you're worth billions.
Bye Felicia! Meta exodus.
The sad reality is that most people, like an overwhelming majority, won’t leave. Most don’t even have a clue this is happening in the first place, those that do, love their family and friends more than they hate Mark.
And where are they going to go? I heard Cory doctorow liken it to Anatevka (the town in Ukraine from fiddler on the roof) the people were sad they were leaving because they knew it would never be the same again and they might not see each other again. They didn’t like getting beat by Cossacks and it was a shitty place to be but they didn’t want to leave their people.
Dumping a platform that has your friends and family is a hard thing to do especially if it’s the only meaningful way you can connect with them otherwise. Especially if you know some won’t leave and some aren’t going to go to the same place you are.
On top of that, so many places no longer have websites, they have Facebook pages. Wanna see the menu to your favorite restaurant? Fucking Facebook. Want to know the hours of operation of that computer repair place? Fucking Facebook. Want to know if the shop you're going to carries your brand of something? Believe it or not, fucking Facebook. It's so integrated into our culture at this point. No private entity should ever have been allowed to amass that much power.
Wanna see the menu to your favorite restaurant?
I have used Google maps and it has worked well so far. But it's just the lesser of the two evils.
Get fuck't, Zuck. I'm attempting to convince my entire family to go to Friendica.
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Okay, so what's wrong with that, dipshit? The populace fucking hates your stupid policies because it harms, and sticking in solidarity with those it harms is VIRTUE SIGNALING? That's a bad thing?
Go poorly surf and fight MMA you dumb, dickhead. People hate you and you deserve it.