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- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 10 months ago:
You’re complaining about ads that are being pushed on you by an algorithm from ad companies. I’m telling you there are no ad companies. Seems relevant.
I never typed the word “ad”. I specifically said post of top brands. How can this be achieved in ActivityPub? Easy. When you are using lets say Threads, their proprietary system treats differently ads and normal posts. However, anything their system is pushing on the federated network (ActivityPub) is disguised as a normal post. A post that is having millions of engagement will be visible in “All”.
Nothing prevents them from doing that right now.
You act like you’re new to internet. What prevents them is that their audience is not here and companies are not paying them for that. However companies will pay them to promote their products in Threads. With the current numbers, Threads has the potential to dominate the “All” page.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 10 months ago:
that’s irrelevant. Nothing prevents the influencers to promote their products as they do in all the popular platforms. You’re thinking only in terms of ads as coming from an ad server but this is not necessarily the case.
- Comment on Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads 10 months ago:
yes, very misguided. I always loved the idea of browsing “All” and see all top brands with millions of engagement promoting their products
- Comment on New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion 10 months ago:
it is not “now”. It is exactly as it was being used in 2020, when the article was written, by the mass media. They were calling “troll” everyone they were disagreeing with.
- Comment on Not mocking cobol devs but yall are severely underpaid for keeping fintech alive 11 months ago:
Didn’t say python because oh sweet Jesus the slowdown alone would grind the global economy to a halt if we were running all our banking software on Python XD
ah so we just need to persuade banks to switch to python. Noted
- Comment on Microsoft’s Windows Hello fingerprint authentication has been bypassed 11 months ago:
fingerprint login is not secure. period. Being stuck in using a password login is a plus
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 11 months ago:
your memory might not works very well since it was never called plain “mozilla”
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
the “I” in “AI” is not real intelligence either
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
Don’t fuckin buy it.
yes, this is what I’m doing. So, what is your point?
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
lol or “pay to win”. Pay to have an AI reply for you that will guarantee to get the conversation going
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
yes, and how long until this be known? If the company self-sabotage itself so profoundly it will just be the end of the company. I’m not saying that their end goal is to survive forever, but this is incredibly shortsighted.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
you didn’t manage to reply to any of the arguments above. You just spitted out some basic principles which all of us are aware of. I don’t understand even why you bothered to type these since they also don’t offer anything valuable in the conversation
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
and what does it prevent them to do the same thing now? In both cases, sooner or later the real users will figure out they are bot accounts. I don’t get how the company will benefit if they have a series of angry users when they realize that the messages were from bots all along? Or are they gonna keep the bar so high that the end users will never realize that they were bot accounts.
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
still not get it. You imply that these “premium messages” will be messages by AI bot accounts ?
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
app sponsored AI bots to lure people into paying premium
sorry but what do you mean? Can you please explain?
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
Attractive people simply don’t need the apps.
and funnily enough, attractive people are being “promoted” by the apps. By “promoted” I mean, that people who receive a lot of right-swipes are pushed higher in the stack of appearing to users because if users were seeing not-attractive users, they would ditch the app.
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
short answer: not possible without real moderation by people who are getting paid for that.
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
I’m genuinely baffled that you interpreted any of what I said as garnering sympathy for streaming platforms or their CEOs.
then explain me why you mentioned the “operating at a loss” thing. What does it prove in your argument? What does this offer in the dialog and please explain me if the CEO of a said company which is “operating at a loss” walks out with millions in their pockets or not. And also what will happen in the owner of a small business which is also operating at a loss. Then compare these two “operating at a loss” and tell me if they are even slightly comparable.
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 1 year ago:
From their generic FAQ:
What is Disney+?
Disney+ is the streaming home for entertainment from Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, and National Geographic.
from my limited perspective, the word “plus” is to indicate the rest studios/companies that are included in the Disney (parent) company
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 1 year ago:
ok, so the word “plus” is used to indicate that it is a streaming service. Got it
- Comment on Consumers are paying more than ever for streaming TV each month and analysts say there’s no reason for the companies to stop raising prices 1 year ago:
boo-hoo-hoo poor mega corps, I’m pretty sure the CEOs of these companies were paying by their own money the price difference of the true cost and the decreased subscription price of all the customers and they will walk out poorer. Not with millions in their pockets.
- Comment on NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" 1 year ago:
sure. However “plus” means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
ok, I think I had missed that crucial difference in the business model lol
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
interesting. thanks for sharing!
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
a bit off topic but when you say personal instance where is it hosted? And if it is strictly personal, doesn’t google create the same profile for you which will be assigned in your IP if it is hosted in your house, or in your VPS’s IP if hosted elsewhere?
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
I’m also curious why people pretend it doesn’t exist when they say “there is no other video uploading platform like youtube”
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
I’m not quite sure who in particular you’re referring to in your last statement and surely I’ve misinterpreted what you mean with it, but to be clear, I personally don’t think it would be fair towards employees to slash their income and expect them to work without making ends meet so that the rest of us to enjoy a recreational service.
what are you even talking about? I never said employees’ income should be slashed or expect them to work without making ends meet. I just said, that in such big corps, even though that in the papers they may saw declined numbers or even be below zero, there are still a few people (see executive board) who still make tremendous amounts of money. A CEO will always walk out with millions in their pockets because, well, that was their salary and the company’s debts are not their own debts, so, well, capitalism. Ok, the company failed, there is no money to pay off debts and employees, but the money they made from the company is now theirs and cannot be asked back to pay off company debt. Because that’s the legal system, the company was different entity. There is nobody liable for it in terms of personal liability.
It is always the lower lever employees who take the hit.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
I think it’s a very nuanced stance to suggest that price changes aren’t solely driven by corporate greed
do you seriously believe that the CEO of netflix was struggling to survive, was living on a month-by-month paycheck, and was having any cut in their “wage” ?
Some people tend to forget that behind a corporation that presents numbers that are falling behind, there are humans who make profits regardless.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
I get your point. For me (and I suppose for some other people) works a bit different. When I’m not actively participating in a conversation, up/down vote is a quick way to show agreement/disagreement. I cannot upvote something that I complete disagree. However, in cases that I’m actively engaging, I don’t use it as a punishment tool so I just abstain. Like here, I weren’t downvoting you because it was an active ongoing conversation and I expressed myself by comments. You were actively engaging in good faith (I suppose) so it was fine. But at the same time I could not upvote either the comments in which I was finding myself disagreeing (I think I upvoted 1-2 at the end). However people are “passing-by” and up/downvote to show their view. Don’t take it as your punishment. But also you cannot “demand” that since you wrote something that you believe contributes to a discussion everyone should also believe that your points were so well made that should be upvoted even though they disagree. By this logic we should upvote everything that is longer that 5 words.
- Comment on The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee... 1 year ago:
you’re overthinking it. There is not even a “global” karma like reddit. Your up/down-votes are not counting towards your “internet points”. They are in a per-comment basis and they’re a quick way to interact with opinions. Would you prefer everyone commenting “agree”/“disagree” ?