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Have a Fucking Website

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If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance.
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Have a Fucking Website - Other Strangeness — merritt k

For fuck's sake
merritt k (Other Strangeness — merritt k)

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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

The thing that made me not get a Facebook account 20 years ago was reading their T&Cs and seeing that I would grant them an irrevocable, sublicensable, commercial copyright license to anything that I uploaded, for them to use for any purpose. Oh, and there was also a thing that I agreed to be liable if I didn't have the rights to grant Facebook those rights.

It's amazing to me how many companies will click through this and literally give Facebook the right to use their brand for any purpose.

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Thad

@david_chisnall I got an e-mail asking me to join Facebook and it had a "people you might know" list and one of the people on it was my high school girlfriend's father. And I was like "okay, that's creepy" and so I never signed up.

Like, it's not hard to see how they connected me to him. But I don't need companies making algorithmic deductions about my social circles without my consent. @lproven

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Killa Koala

@david_chisnall I did something just as effective, I watched the movie. It's beyond me how anyone who watched that movie could then sign-up to Facebook or any of Meta's other services. It tells you exactly the sort of people who run those businesses and why you should avoid them like the plague.
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brainwashed by lentils

discovery of businesses doesn't happen only via mastodon, so it's fine people don't know it yet. they can follow the link on the ad for your business — if they can't open a link in their web browser, then they'll not find your website either!

all the issues the author of article has with "social media" don't really apply to mastodon. it's like someone who's fed up with mcdonalds and burger king exclaiming: »everyone should cook at home! restaurants are horrible.«

but all of us here know that, of course.

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