About time! Been using an addon for this, I wonder how the features stack up.
Highly recommend using groups for people who open too many tabs, I categorize them and they function well as temp bookmarks. Also recommend using another addon called autotabdiscard so you don’t nuke your RAM.
Only lasted less than a day before it was intentionally corrupted by 4chan and shut down for idolizing Hitler
Love driving until I have to pay more attention to other cars than the road itself.
A lot of platforms only update at the end of the month. S&P 500 is down 11.54% and NASDAQ composite is down 12.5% in just the last 5 days.
The ad invasion has officially begun in earnest apparently. Brands should be downvoted (or banned or quarantined or something) as a rule.
Now… what can we do about political astroturfing? Politics is super broad and people legitimately talk about it all the time (as they should).
No sort by controversial for comments?
Also, some posts can be giant in the feed (many images, long images, when people post whole articles, etc). A way to limit these posts to maybe one whole screen would be nice.
Thank you for a great app!
Thanks for writing an essay so I no longer feel the need to lol. I hope your post gets more visibility.
I fucking hate advertising. I want it banned to the greatest extent that we can do so. But if we want actual change, it needs to be a lawfully applicable strategy. We don’t need to make the perfect the enemy of the good. Banning ads for medication is a great start that everyone can agree on for instance. We should work up from there.
The most insidious stuff is the content you don’t even realize is an ad, like comments and methods of boosting/lowering visibility on social media. That is a thorny issue.
This is a new phenomenon here in my experience, the cynic in me says this is ad companies trying to control and shut down the conversation as Lemmy grows. Better to have your opposition not have a realistic and feasible route to their goals.
It reminds me of how close the US was to actual police reform before all the discussion became “defund the police entirely” like that was going to just suddenly fix everything and cause no other problems. Then the whole movement just basically evaporated.
Never been banned but I stopped commenting or even logging in on Reddit years ago, I always used r/all almost exclusively and they ruined that algorithm multiple times over. I could never really tell if I was talking to a bot or not when commenting either.
I don’t disagree, but I hear the same sentiment often and it downplays the reality of the fact they keep succeeding in various ways, like trump staying out of prison and the supreme court getting stacked.
I mean, if the intention is just to crash the economy the methods don’t need to be smart. Who the fuck knows what the real goal is here, the stupidity might just be there to obfuscate what the real intentions are.
Even if Trump has no clue what’s going on his bank rollers and handlers like Thiel and Putin might have more strategy in mind.
Has someone started a website yet to specifically track all of the judge orders and Trump’s (non)response to them? Would be good to put it all in one spot w/primary sources n whatnot
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Google says an MT-LB is a personnel carrier. Was this one converted into a giant bomb? That’s one hell of an explosion
I don’t think social media is inherently evil, but profit motive creeps into people’s private lives and fundamentally corrupts the natural premise of social connection.
Social media is huge money, all through advertising. Advertising will use anything it can to manipulate an audience’s behavior, that’s what it exists for in terms of research and how organizations decide what ads to run and where: net engagement and sales figures. Whether to sell you a product or a political idea, it is most effective when you don’t realize you’re being advertised to. This encourages ad firms and political campaigns to manipulate user psychology to get the most meaningful results they can. I think the depth of insight all the data collection tech companies do opens a window to manipulate people in ways we haven’t really come to terms with as a society.
And while the fediverse is probably more resistant to advertising than a centrally controlled system, there is nothing stopping well crafted astroturfing in this space. Political astroturfing in particular doesn’t generally look like what someone expects an ad to look like because of its ubiquitous nature and its natural network effects.
Even beyond all the wishful thinking, Tesla could literally evaporate and it would not meaningfully impact musk in his current position. SpaceX can be arbitrarily juiced by the govt via contracts and since it’s not publicly traded we don’t even really get insight into it’s real value.
Tesla is long overdue to return to earth given it’s financials compared to other auto manufacturers. It also is not used as collateral for the twitter buy, despite what is regularly parroted.
Don’t forget about all the Chinese words thrown in for good measure!
Why bother submitting vulnerability reports just because some AI claims one with no POC?