>     Lots of services are "centralized" to some degree, everybody knows it's bad
>     but it works. I think it's important to explain why FB in particular is
>     considered harmful.

>     Experimenting on their users by adjusting the mix of content shown to them
>     to be mostly depressing and seeing how they react:
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#2014_emotion_manipulation_study

>     Various obvious censorship of types of content such as that related to
>     strife between kurdish people and turkish govt.
>     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook#Censorship

>     What we don't know (can't prove) is that Facebook algorithms subtly act to
>     marginalize and disempower activists. Weaponizing #1 for the purpose of #2
>     would be an extremely powerful and toxic combination and because the FB
>     platform does not have documented expected behavior (like twitter does),
>     one can never know if they are being intentionally gaslighted[1] by the
>     platform.

>     So you can understand my reaction to a link which says "join us here https://facebo...."

>     Thanks,
>     Caleb

>     [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaslighting

>     On 20/05/16 10:18, georg@??? <mailto:georg@riseup.net> wrote:
>      > On 16-05-20 10:13:19, Dirk von Heinrichshorst wrote:
>      >> Join us here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1734984760078775 :-)
>      >
>      > Posting a "Join us here Facebook link" to squatconf@? Serious? I hope
>      > you're kidding..

>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > Georg

>      >

>      >

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