Zedstrian

People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.

Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.

How to Fix DHS: The answer to the agency’s abuses is not reform; it is wholesale disassembly and restructuring.

FTFY

While gas prices may swing the opinions of spineless independent voters that would otherwise vote for fascism when it’s expedient to them, MAGA voters are so entrenched in their cult that gas prices alone aren’t going to change their minds.

They like killing children at home too.

The system working as intended.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.

Fetterman is the perfect example of controlled opposition.

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Realizing this only after gas prices have gone up 50 cents, but not after all the shit he did in his first term, attempt to steal the 2020 election, corruption of the Supreme Court, degradation of transgender rights, intervention in South and Central American elections, inhumane treatment of immigrants, assault on renewable energy, kidnapping of Maduro, support for murderers at ICE, and countless other degradations, also makes that voter a worthless piece of shit.

Shitposts aren’t a good fit here.

The far right criticizes NATO when they either don’t do “enough” by their standards (even though NATO is purely a defensive alliance), or “too much” by defending against Russian aggression.

Counter-probe the U.S. for forced labor in the American federal and state prison systems.

If the article is going to call Trump ‘President Trump’, then it should be calling Biden ‘President Biden’, not ‘Mr. Biden’; fascists shouldn’t be propped up on pedestals above anyone else.

When you can’t trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you’re seeing are real, you’ve lost the foundation a community platform is built on.

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful. The lack of distinction between real and fake content serves to attract marketers and propagandists to such platforms, with most users remaining due to the network effect. With its venture capitalist funding, Digg would be just as willing to benefit from spam if it held market dominance, and thus only distributed Fediverse platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon are viable solutions.

Generative AI products in general need to be better regulated. With more and more consumers trusting the output of LLMs, companies can use them to collect more consumer data than ever before and infuse marketing and propaganda into LLM outputs with no distinction, to the detriment of the genuine sources of information upon which they depend.

Penalties that are lower than profits encourage companies to rob consumers again in the future.

They are losing in the context of not being able to benefit from those resources themselves at a later point.

Gr0lum shouldn’t have revealed the IP addresses of YGG moderators and could have handled aspects of the leak better, but the YGG admin’s rebuttal post is undermined by disgusting transphobia:

The rules of the competing tracker, set up by these same individuals, clearly show their true colors: anyone who doesn’t buy into their woke ideological vision isn’t welcome. “LGBTQI+ phobias” are placed on the same level as fascism or racism, and any “debate” on the subject is purely and simply forbidden. In other words, if you’re not comfortable with the idea of dad putting on mom’s wig, you’re not welcome on their platform.

Alternative to CBS.

Alternative to CBS.