I suppose it was only a matter of time before I landed myself in Facebook Jail again. It seems having the Amiga Disrupt group on Facebook is the problem, because the community is operated literally as a community; which means people talk, joke and banter like old friends having a pint.
I’m not going to bore you with the details, but I think I have had enough of this rubbish. So when this 3 day ban is over, Amiga Disrupt on Facebook is archived and I move it to Reddit permanently. It’s just become a hassle having to deal with rules that were designed for woke kids incapable of ignoring things they don’t like. Heck, I find cars boring as fuck, but I don’t hang around car groups looking for something to complain about. And I sure as shit don’t implement a word filter that automatically bans people without any context.
My impression is that Facebook want groups that are sterile, identical and on topic; like an endless body of soulless rss-feeds that blindly conform to the Silicon Valley hipster mentality. So we old hackers that created the fucking internet and the associated tech these millennials take for granted, we that have been running communities since before they were even born -we just have to find someplace else to socialize.
Why Reddit?
In short, Reddit has 18+ groups. Now before you jump to any conclusions, keep in mind that Facebook operates with an age group of 12 years old. So all that censoring of jokes and comments which makes Facebook so god damn annoying, is because you are supposed to use language suitable for children. This was not always the case. It’s something Facebook arrived at in their attempt to strangle political opponents. Because in their view the entire universe rotates around american domestic politics (the fucking arrogance is astounding).
Obviously such a forum poorly suited for a community consisting of men and women in their 40s and 50s that grew up in a society where freedom of speech was sacred. Amiga Disrupt has been hounded by the Facebook’s “alleged” A.I for years because, ironically, we have an actual social component. We talk, laugh, share jokes and even hold on to principles that might not be popular to the vast majority (in terms of technology, nothing more sinister than that). But the moment you have swear words involved, even casual ones, you hit the age limit pretty fast.
The founding principle of an A.I, the keyword if you will, is intelligence. The ability to deduce meaning based on context rather than blind, automation and word censorship. Facebook doesn’t have an A.I, they have a rudimentary word filtering system that a child could engineer. And to be blunt it’s never ending mistakes is killing the platform.
Looking back at 14 years of Facebook community building
I have been running groups on Facebook before “groups” were distinct from “pages”. I still manage a wealth of software development groups, and consider myself a positive asset for the Facebook platform. It’s people like me that drive the platform forward, create content and engaging posts. But when it comes to natural language and real socializing, like we have in Amiga Disrupt, Facebook’s absurd regime is making that impossible. Human beings are expressive; humor, opinions and even foul language is a part of that. Not that we MUST use swear words by any means, 99% of all communication is practical in nature and without any swearing at all. But being censored and “punished” for quoting a movie or a joke of poor taste is now enough to get you shut down for days or weeks. It has just reached a level of wokeness that I find unpleasant to deal with.
My cup is full and Facebook loses a person that has helped them generate a wealth of activity and business this past decade. I’m not irreplaceable or special by any means, nor will me leaving show up on their radar. But I am a very tolerant person, and when people like me leave, that also means others are leaving too. Where there is smoke there is fire.
I am not sorry for moving my groups away from the platform. Facebook has become a political hotspot and the wokerati and twitterati is doing what they do best – letting their narcissism ruin everything for the majority. A tiny slither of the population on earth, barely in the sub 0.1% range, has in less than two decades managed to spawn an online reality so intolerant and hostile, that they strangle the very thing they swore to protect. Well done.
Come visit the new Amiga Disrupt here:
RetroMod World 
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