Since I no longer wish to support Meta with my presence on Instagram due to Meta allying with Donald Trump, I am hoping to find a community where I can share my knitting here on Tumblr. I used to be on Tumblr as a teenager 15 years ago, but I made a new username now to start over fresh.
The legwarmers in the picture are my proudest knitting achievement. They are my own design, made in two-color brioche and double knitting. I am working on the pattern, and wish to organize a test knitting hopefully this spring. But I need to finish the pattern first. And I am a perfectionist.
I am looking forward to meeting new people to discuss knitting here on Tumblr.
Exclusive: Diagnoses part of lawsuit being brought against parent company Meta and outsourcer Samasource Kenya
Being a content moderator on Facebook can give you severe PTSD.
Let's take time from our holiday festivities to commiserate with those who have to moderate social media. They witness some of the absolute worst of humanity.
More than 140 Facebook content moderators have been diagnosed with severe post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual abuse and terrorism.
The moderators worked eight- to 10-hour days at a facility in Kenya for a company contracted by the social media firm and were found to have PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), by Dr Ian Kanyanya, the head of mental health services at Kenyatta National hospital in Nairobi.
The mass diagnoses have been made as part of lawsuit being brought against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, and Samasource Kenya, an outsourcing company that carried out content moderation for Meta using workers from across Africa.
The images and videos including necrophilia, bestiality and self-harm caused some moderators to faint, vomit, scream and run away from their desks, the filings allege.
You can imagine what now gets circulated on Elon Musk's Twitter/X which has ditched most of its moderation.
According to the filings in the Nairobi case, Kanyanya concluded that the primary cause of the mental health conditions among the 144 people was their work as Facebook content moderators as they “encountered extremely graphic content on a daily basis, which included videos of gruesome murders, self-harm, suicides, attempted suicides, sexual violence, explicit sexual content, child physical and sexual abuse, horrific violent actions just to name a few”.
Four of the moderators suffered trypophobia, an aversion to or fear of repetitive patterns of small holes or bumps that can cause intense anxiety. For some, the condition developed from seeing holes on decomposing bodies while working on Facebook content.
Being a social media moderator may sound easy, but you will never be able to unsee the horrors which the dregs of society wish to share with others.
To make matters worse, the moderators in Kenya were paid just one-eighth what moderators in the US are paid.
Social media platform owners have vast wealth similar to the GDPs of some countries. They are among the greediest leeches in the history of money.
I love tumblr <3 i love that i can post whatever i want and i dont have to stay on a theme <3 i love that followers dont matter <3 i love that you dont have to censor words <3 i love that people are so passionate on here <3 i love that people speak their minds and theres not a brutal algorithm to rip them to shreds <3
get rid of it. y'know? i deleted my accounts connected to meta and x. and tiktok? if it doesn't get bought back by an american company it's gone again. deleted it the day it returned. fuck trump and all his bootlickers, especially the rich, blind pigs at the top.
It's gone. And I'm more sad then I expected to be.
Such a huge platform of free speech was taken away. As we all watched. It was documented. We witnessed as something we fought for, something that became bigger then anyone could have ever imagined, A massive community, censored. And now he'll get the credit if he brings it back.
This is the list of apps that everyone said to delete. A lot of people are saying that just uninstalling the apps does the trick. They still have to pay for the server space to hold our information.
Delete them all if you are able to.
Messenger is especially one that needs to go. It makes a map from any wifi networks that you log into. You know, the thing Congress was "afraid" of from Tiktok during the hearings. I wonder where they got the idea that social media apps could do that.
Some alternatives, other than Tumblr, are Xiaohongshu (RedNOTE), Wechat, YouTube, and Reddit, to name a few. Plus, there are a lot of up and coming apps that are in the making.
not to be dramatic but the tiktok ban is making me feel so helpless. the government can come together and finally agree on something and it’s to BAN A SOCIAL MEDIA APP??? but they can’t agree on raising the federal minimum wage so our citizens can afford to live or gun control so our children can go to school without being murdered.
there’s nothing i can do and it makes me feel so small. this is only the beginning to so much bullshit from our government oligarchy.
