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- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 5 hours ago:
I prefer to call it the masterbatorium.
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- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
My mother in law would complain about wearing one while I was driving her around, so I’d just refuse to move the car until she either got out or put the seatbelt on. She wears it without complaining now. I give no fucks if people like wearing it or not, when they’re in my car, I’m responsible for their safety and I won’t have their blood on my hands because they think it’ll never happen to them.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Right, but ActivityPub was right there. The AT Protocol is an open standard, but in its current form it effectively turns Bluesky’s nodes into gatekeepers for the rest of the network. If you want to talk about Meta platforms, even Threads uses ActivityPub.
- Comment on The Fairphone 5 price has been dropped to €499. The phone is designed to be the most advanced environmentally friendly smartphone. 1 week ago:
I need my pocket sized spaceship computer for shitposting and occasionally checking my email
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
There isn’t one as far as I’m concerned. People moved from one corpo social media platform to another corpo social media platform thinking that the person running the former platform was the problem, when the entire model is designed to prioritise profit over human expression.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
It was founded by Jack Dorsey, the same guy who founded Twitter. At this point it does look like it’ll end up the same way.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 week ago:
Did anyone actually expect Bluesky to be different to any other corporate-run social media platform? What was the point of jumping from one to another?
Just more proof that FOSS and proper decentralisation are the only things that will save us.
- Comment on Revealed: Keir Starmer's AI advisor has financial interests in almost 500 tech firms 1 week ago:
The bar is in hell.
- Comment on Derbyshire dad learned to code to create Peak District video game 1 week ago:
Was getting strong The Secret of Monkey Island vibes from the screenshot. Will have to give this a go.
- Comment on How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible? 1 week ago:
You dont have to jailbreak to sideload apps on iOS and this hasn’t been the case for a long time. The problem is that if you’re not in the EU, it’s still not as straightforward as it really should be. But it can be done.
- Comment on Eight years on, Mastodon stubbornly survives 1 week ago:
I’d be totally cool with that. I’ll take quality discussion with less people to talk to over huge quantities of slop and rage bait any day of the week.
I think we need to let go of this idea that online platforms need to be as big as possible or be considered huge failures. There used to be thousands of niche forums all over the internet before corporate social media and link aggregators effectively staged a hostile takeover and homogenised everything, they did numbers that would look pathetic in comparison to daily users of X or Facebook, but they still had a busy feel balanced with a sense of community. It doesn’t actually take that many people to achieve that, its a fraction of what some people will have you believe.
- Comment on ‘I’m super worried’: fewer UK tourists visiting US amid Trump’s policies and rhetoric 1 week ago:
That genie has long since left the bottle and I wouldn’t bank on being able to put it back in.
Instead of incessantly banning and censoring everything that might be remotely harmful and kicking the can down the road, perhaps we should be focusing on education and tackling the problems that make social media so toxic to begin with. It’s not by accident - these platforms are for-profit businesses and they benefit from encouraging toxic behaviour in the name of engagement.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 weeks ago:
No judge would authorise a honeypot that runs for multiple years, hosting original child abuse material meaning that children are actively being abused to produce content for it. That would be an unspeakable atrocity. A few years ago the Australian police seized a similar website and ran it for a matter of weeks to gather intelligence and even that was considered too far for many.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 weeks ago:
Understand you’re not advocating for it, but I do take issue with the idea that AI CSAM will prevent children from being harmed. While it might satisfy some of them (at first, until the high from that wears off and they need progressively harder stuff), a lot of pedophiles are just straight up sadistic fucks and a real child being hurt is what gets them off. I think it’ll just make the “real” stuff even more valuable in their eyes.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 weeks ago:
For now.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 weeks ago:
Feds have been stepping up their seized website banner game lately. The one for Genesis Market was pretty cool too.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 2 weeks ago:
Excellent work. That’s an unimaginable amount of abuse material.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 weeks ago:
Is it really an ad if it’s not actually trying to sell something though?
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 3 weeks ago:
There’s been a ton in the UK outed as predators themselves. It’s projection.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 3 weeks ago:
BANG BANG BANG ASS POLICE OPEN UP
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
Normally platforms are around for a while before enshittification kicks in, I see that Digg are cutting straight to the chase before the site even launches.
I probably will check the new Digg out, but I’ve come to the conclusion that all corporate-run social media platforms will go down the road of fucking over their users eventually. I’m not willing to move to another one and build up connections and communities just for some rich fuck to destroy it on a whim. I’m far more interested in helping to build and grow federated platforms like Lemmy so that there is a true alternative outside of their sphere of influence entirely.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
Bad faith agenda pushing was a problem in the days of forums and BBS too, although admittedly to a lesser extent because those platforms were smaller and less commercial. As long as people are able to talk to each other over the internet, that will be a problem. I think the best way to tackle that is being able to spot it and call it out when it happens.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
It’s better in many ways, but one that I feel is quite important is that there’s no profit motive to keep users on the platform and engaging with advertisers for as long as possible, and therefore no need to develop the kind of exploitative algorithms that drive screen addiction and engagement through rage.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 weeks ago:
Corporate social media was a mistake. Genuinely, I lay a lot of why the state of the western world is the way it is at the feet of Zuckerberg and his peers.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 4 weeks ago:
Takes time to quit an abusive relationship.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, the modern internet is sadly pretty cooked. We are well and truly past the golden age.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Try Ifixit next time. If it runs on electricity, there’s a good chance that they have taken it apart and documented how to repair it.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
I hate that Discord id being used as a forum replacement because it’s fucking terrible for it. There’s pretty much no way to collate and archive information in a way that is actually useful.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 4 weeks ago:
Lemmy is a lot of different Reddits under a lot of different managements.