Yo.
I’m not a US citizen so I’m not sure how this works, so if I say some stupid shit you can call me out on it, but, is it not a ban only in state devices/networks?
Why is that impeding researches/studies? What is stopping them from just using a personal device on a personal network, or at least a “work” (but still personal) device/network?
I just don’t understand that part.
Just opened Sync because “I wanted to use it for one last time” and was hit with the 404… So sad to see a good app vanish like that…
But I’m glad we’re getting Sync for Lemmy at the same time.
I’m wondering if Reddit will just be a place for AI/bots to create/replicate content, and the people (read: “normies”/people who don’t care what social media website they use as long as they can consume content) there will be interacting with said bots. All that just to drive traffic and appease shareholders.
Not sure if I’m just paranoid or if this is the case. I know that there are cases like this, but I wonder how deep it goes, or if it has been like that for a long time.
Wellp, long gone are the days of me typing a question and ending it with “Reddit”, now it’s 100% Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon.
I don’t want anything else related to Meta…
I stopped using Fb years ago and had to use it again not long ago because I moved countries and the demographic here can’t stop using Fb/Instagram/Whatsapp for everything related to business.
But if it uses ActivityPub (and from my understanding that’s decentralized), couldn’t I just use my Mastodon account to interact with people there? Would that mean that my Instagram (or, in this case, “Threads”) account can potentially communicate with Mastodon accs as well?
I read this in David Attenborough’s voice
I honestly think more subs need to do an indefinite shut down.
If it’s only for 48 hours Reddit can just wait it out, and if not a lot of subs join in on the indefinite shut down they can just replace the mods for new ones.
However, in my opinion, the buggest change will come June 30th when 3rd party apps shut down since that’s when users will actualy stop using Reddit.
Let’s hope it’s enough users to make a change. I myself will be deleting everything and my account on June 30th. Let’s hope something changes.
I mean, to be honest, I feel like it’s the quality of the content in there. I used my old phone (the one I use for apps like threads) to get a threads account and people are using Threads as if they’re using instagram.
For example, you see a pocture of someone or a drawing, you get into the post to see the 45 comments people left and all of them are:
Comment #1: “Magnificent 🥰😍” #2: “Amazing 🤩” #3: “WOW!! 🔥🔥”
And so on.
At least in twitter there is more “discussion” (albeit toxic and usually useless) or at least more people sometimes talking about interesting things.