Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible

CCatMan@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m Canadian and that see you next Tuesday Zuck has blocked all news to us on his platforms. I tried to post a NYT recipe link the other day and that was blocked.

  So I started using Firefish and only reading it in the fediverse. Amazing.

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  • Leviathan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like Zuck actually did you and the rest of the country a favor. Getting news on social media is how we got this deep into the mess we’re in.

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe. But it annoys me I can’t post interesting non political articles which I did often.

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  • Stern@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I presume you know the specifics of why those blocks are in place? It’s because of a bill attempting to force them to pay for news posted there. You’d think the Canadians would have learned from the Aussies who tried similar, but no.

    washingtonpost.com/…/facebook-meta-canada-bill-c1…

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    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes of course. I’m glad the government is standing up regardless of previous results.

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      • SCB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Zuck banned news so he’s a cunt

        your government did that

        yes and that’s a good thing

        ???

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    • Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m Canadian. Not that it matters much for this comment but feel compelled to say.

      Regarding laws demanding fees, I think it’s actually a good idea. Most platforms built-up with the shallow ruse of serving user interests and business interests. Then once the audience became captured by (really a few only) tech monopolies, they slowly leveraged the users to suck as much blood, when that phase was over they started sucking the blood of businesses. Nothing is organic and it’s a huge money-con building wealth off those they once served, now pulled the rug out from.

      The complete enshittification of the Internet is upon us. These awful blood-sucking tech monopolies have dropped the altruistic ruse and they are in full end-stage capitalism mode. They’ve commodified the users, they’ve taken their business partners hostage, and it’s one giant fuckaround used to build wealth for stockholders.

      Hell… were on a platform right now discussing it, which in large part exists because the investors of Reddit are pulling this same shit.

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  • CCatMan@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess I’ll be leaving meta incompletely soon. My use of KISSLaunchers makes it easy for me to forget about social media.

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