A secret program called "Project Ghostbusters" saw Facebook devise a way to intercept and decrypt the encrypted network traffic of Snapchat users to study their behavior.
I agree and disagree. Crackheads and ex convicts are humans, meta is not human.
Its like letting the invading army of nazi germany in because „they’re human“. Meta is by definition a psychopathic authoritarian with an enormous force of „somewhat harmless“ people who will flood the servers and by their sheer number have the power to change anything they want.
I want Lemmy to grow too but not at any cost. I’d rather have quality than quantity quite frankly.
Same.
I used TOR to log in to my FB account after years, just to see how my normie friends and family might be doing. They barely posted anything. It was just reposted ads.
My experience was also:
Numerous unblockable “suggested for you” pages were all thot-videos that would get me fired if I worked in an office.
FB marketplace, rife with scams.
The company has been caught doing everything from enabling genocides to collecting data on children to making “shadow profiles” for people without accounts, to influencing elections.
A single clicked link can hijack your account, evidenced by how many relatives send me private messages about a “friend that just got them a bunch of money.”
Yeah I’m more than happy having Lemmy have a basic intelligence barrier to entry, and making sure Meta suffocates if they try to zombify our platform with their accessibility + indoctrination strategy, like they have with entire countries.
Having a massive illiterate army that will do whatever you influence them to is nothing to sneeze at. (See: TikTok mobilizing their user base in the name of “free speech”)
If any living breathing person wants to come hang out with us on Lemmy / Mastodon / Pixelfed / etc… using any instance? I’m happy to walk them through it. There’s no “gatekeeping” any more than being required to read is gatekeeping the rest of society.
It’s been said the Fediverse feels like “the old internet”…exactly, when it was about expression, and anonymous handles, and not corporate and nation-state interests trying to mind control and profit off of alarmingly detailed profiles of the entire human population. Keep the board rooms out of our bedrooms.
Implying that lemmy is somehow better than other social media networks is equally silly. It’s not. It’s basically the exact same thing reddit is, with less people on it.
I’m looking at a computer, and I have no clue who any of you are. There’s nothing inherently social about anonymous message boards no matter what the revisionist clowns say.
It is a social network. Just because you don’t know someone personally doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting with them socially. Asking someone for directions to somewhere is socializing - you won’t meet the other person ever, but you made a connection, talked to someone. In extension, people who post more in certain communities will be recognized by many people visiting those communities. It doesn’t matter who is behind the nickname - you are talking to them, a living human being.
Consider not disparaging people who use drugs or those who are finished served their time in jail. Drug use is innate across the human species, and ex convicts should be fully integrated with the community as full citizens.
That’s like saying you want your country club to grow by letting crackheads, ex-convicts and hooligans have a membership card.
I want Lemmy to grow too but not at any cost. I’d rather have quality than quantity quite frankly.
I agree and disagree. Crackheads and ex convicts are humans, meta is not human.
Its like letting the invading army of nazi germany in because „they’re human“. Meta is by definition a psychopathic authoritarian with an enormous force of „somewhat harmless“ people who will flood the servers and by their sheer number have the power to change anything they want.
Eternal September is inevitable. It’s not like the good communities will stop existing.
I saw many good Reddit subs then into garbage as the site grew.
At least the Fediverse should be resistant to enshittification because greed isn’t the driving force behind it.
Same.
I used TOR to log in to my FB account after years, just to see how my normie friends and family might be doing. They barely posted anything. It was just reposted ads.
My experience was also:
Numerous unblockable “suggested for you” pages were all thot-videos that would get me fired if I worked in an office.
FB marketplace, rife with scams.
The company has been caught doing everything from enabling genocides to collecting data on children to making “shadow profiles” for people without accounts, to influencing elections.
A single clicked link can hijack your account, evidenced by how many relatives send me private messages about a “friend that just got them a bunch of money.”
Yeah I’m more than happy having Lemmy have a basic intelligence barrier to entry, and making sure Meta suffocates if they try to zombify our platform with their accessibility + indoctrination strategy, like they have with entire countries.
Having a massive illiterate army that will do whatever you influence them to is nothing to sneeze at. (See: TikTok mobilizing their user base in the name of “free speech”)
If any living breathing person wants to come hang out with us on Lemmy / Mastodon / Pixelfed / etc… using any instance? I’m happy to walk them through it. There’s no “gatekeeping” any more than being required to read is gatekeeping the rest of society.
It’s been said the Fediverse feels like “the old internet”…exactly, when it was about expression, and anonymous handles, and not corporate and nation-state interests trying to mind control and profit off of alarmingly detailed profiles of the entire human population. Keep the board rooms out of our bedrooms.
Implying that lemmy is somehow better than other social media networks is equally silly. It’s not. It’s basically the exact same thing reddit is, with less people on it.
I’m looking at a computer, and I have no clue who any of you are. There’s nothing inherently social about anonymous message boards no matter what the revisionist clowns say.
It is a social network. Just because you don’t know someone personally doesn’t mean you aren’t interacting with them socially. Asking someone for directions to somewhere is socializing - you won’t meet the other person ever, but you made a connection, talked to someone. In extension, people who post more in certain communities will be recognized by many people visiting those communities. It doesn’t matter who is behind the nickname - you are talking to them, a living human being.
Consider not disparaging people who use drugs or those who are finished served their time in jail. Drug use is innate across the human species, and ex convicts should be fully integrated with the community as full citizens.
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