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I’ll take my slightly good news where I can get it. I’m begging for scraps over here!

Honestly surprised there isn’t more. There’s a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.

We’re going to need to do something as heavier electric vehicles become the norm. It’s actually kind of insane how many microplastica come from vehicle tires.

It’s poisoning the well though, even if I don’t see the ads. Also they will prioritize inflammatory content to drive engagement, which would affect other instances as well (you know, like they do for all their other apps/platforms).

And corporations are not good or bad, but the for profit ones… are for profit. And I’m sorry but there is no justification for a profit motive in social media.

I see no way they aren’t a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.

Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that’s not how it works… At all.

Remove corporations from social networks.

A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.

There’s just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn’t need to be there.

The idea of adding a filter between human connection that will distort the message for profit is crazy for a few reasons. Most of all because it simply doesn’t need to happen.

I mean how many of the current worldwide ills are a direct result of algorithms designed to increase engagement through ragebaiting? Disinformation is effective in no small part due to these algorithms making sure you’re made enough to engage and doom scroll. As long as you have a profit motive in these discussions this will be inevitable as far as I can see.

When you imagine a world without Fox/Twitter/Meta/Reddit/Google (not all as culpable of course) force feeding things intent on making you engage (most easily though anger/rage - thanks evolution) it’s hard not to picture a better world. The internet pre-corporate control was a very different place due to a number of factors. I would argue mostly due to a lack of profit motive on social connection.

I’m so sick of corporate control over social media. The more I think about it the more absolutely insane it seems to me.

I would argue we also don’t want to be in a place where we rely on any one individual. Thankfully @ernest seems to understand that as well.

“Old Internet” - I like it!

We must go lower!

It’s so sad when apps stray from their lane and just become bloated messes. I’m looking at you too Postman…

Given the progress in just the last year… that’s terrifying.

“Android 12 added an easy-access feature for emergency services: just press the power button five times, and your phone will dial emergency services for you”

Man, who could have seen this one coming?!

I hate everything about this. I came here to escape the Corporations damnit!

I don’t even care what the vote was for. But the fact that over 94% of people agreed on anything is crazy to me.

Is it really a big problem right now?
Like we have Bluetooth for medium range, wifi for long range, and NFC for short range.
I would argue it’s a feature.

And equal parts terrifying.

I think they would take on a new meaning if the money went to actually running the service and not to corporate profiteering though.
Like if or not unless we go full wikipedia model, as these sites grow they’ll need some sort of income to pay the bills.

Looks like it posts images without domain checking? I assume that would result in a bunch of Reddit hosted images being posted here?