Thanks for posting the link to this group - let us know if anything interesting happens on it. Personally I won't be there as I wouldn't touch FakeBook with somebody else's dick, let alone anything of my own....

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The issue with joining Facebook groups is the everyone your friends with can see it.

I know a lot of people out there who want to become eunuchs or have an interest in it but have not told anyone outside of this community.

Good luck with it, I left that platform years ago and it was the best choice I made.

I agree, the problems with invasive sharing, are bad, but to me the worse aspect is the compiling of profiles and sale of your data to anyone that is willing to pay for it, plus the invasive feeds pushing whatever the "algorithm" thinks might let them show you more advertising....

IMHO FB is a definite case of 'enshitification' at it's worst... I actually jumped through all the well hidden hoops needed to totally delete my FB account, and block any sort of cookies from FB, tracking links, etc...

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There is a much easier way to get all your information removed from FB.
Get yourself a lifetime ban. POOF! You are gone.

mounds_dont wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:39 pm There is a much easier way to get all your information removed from FB.
Get yourself a lifetime ban. POOF! You are gone.

No. you are gone. your account is gone. But your data is still in the databases :-p
'deleted' flag is cheap. real deletion is expensive.

fhunter wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 4:55 am

mounds_dont wrote: Thu Oct 23, 2025 10:39 pm There is a much easier way to get all your information removed from FB.
Get yourself a lifetime ban. POOF! You are gone.

No. you are gone. your account is gone. But your data is still in the databases :-p
'deleted' flag is cheap. real deletion is expensive.

Exactly - if they ban you, they HAVE to keep you in their database, if only to say that you are banned They also still get to keep all your data and information, and sell it to others, leave it where it can be swiped, and so on....

There was a hearing a year or two ago where they admitted that even their engineers don't really know how much info they are keeping about users, and where it is all stored - the result of code being piled on top of code, and the resulting mess never really cleaned up beyond fixing the latest bug...

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Thank you for going (not going) this route. Although the choice is up to the individual on whether or not to participate on fb, there are many in my contact group I'd rather not know. It's a fairly private decision and a very personal choice to pursue this.

People and corporations can be jerks, and poor keepers of sensitive information.

Yeah. It's all fake anyway. Disconnected phones, the address of the local park and ride, my 'birthdate' is the date of Bobby Kennedy's assination (6/5/68).

waj1993 wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 9:05 am Thank you for going (not going) this route. Although the choice is up to the individual on whether or not to participate on fb, there are many in my contact group I'd rather not know. It's a fairly private decision and a very personal choice to pursue this.

People and corporations can be jerks, and poor keepers of sensitive information.

There have been many who have noted that as a class we are a very secretive group, including those that have written research papers on us...

EAv2 used an colocation server, but was essentially private. When they shut down there were a significant number of folks that were talking about movng to FB, Discord, or one of the other big servers... One of the significant concerns that several of us raised was the entire privacy issue of who got to see things like user information. Most of those other services are definitely information sharing or selling, which made them unacceptable. There was also the concern that if you are running on someone else's service, all it takes is for the service to decide to change their rules about what's acceptable content, and everything goes poof...

EAv3 is running on a server that Fusion owns, and the only people that have access to user info are the board admins that need it to make things work and fix problems... In addition the site is backed up to a few other locations (in different parts of the world) on a regular basis.... So we have the privacy that many of us desire, and are pretty much impossible to shut down as long as the Internet is up...

The Fiction Archive works in a similar way FWIW.

I know there is also a group on Discord, and I will not personally join it for the same reason...

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