• @[email protected]
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    3118 hours ago

    “Meta has us in a chokehold. They make money off our presence in order to continue to be in business and yet it’s too difficult for people to leave,” Makichen wrote.

    Difficult? How? I’m pretty sure I still have an account on Facebook from it’s early days, but I haven’t logged in to it in more than a decade. Friends and family can reach me in other ways, like email or better yet a phone call.

    • femtech
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      2118 hours ago

      They are talking about their business. The massage place I go to is primarily thru Facebook. They have their own site but it was easier to just request a appointment.

      • @brucethemoose
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        18 hours ago

        Many businesses have dead websites now, as all the visibility is just through Facebook and Google Maps.

        It’s very different than Twitter, where most business use (outside of influencers and influence campaigns) amounts to status updates that can be given elsewhere.