Yep, and here’s the simple litmus test.’

“Do I trust any of the people who are collecting large amounts of data about a large number of people?”

No…and furthermore, hell no.

Your ‘n’ key has been sleeping with the apostrophe.

“All of CrowdStrike understands the gravity and impact of the situation”

Here’s $10.

You call my claim wildly wrong and have only this to say?

You fundamentally misunderstand the nature of newsrooms. That you can point to the instances in which they were wrong does nothing to argue that they don’t do their best to verify sources, you’re missing the fact that it’s hard sometimes, missing the fact that mainstream outlets retract statements that turn out to be false later and hedge their bets with wording. Dan Rather lost his career over an unverified source. The NBC headline about the beheaded babies literally says “Unverified reports” in the title.

I think you should read this article about the difficulties of getting the news right in the 24 hour news cycle and educate yourself instead of spewing knee-jerk nonsense which your argument fails to prove. https://www.npr.org/2023/10/24/1208075395/israel-gaza-hospital-strike-media-nyt-apology

False equivalence between Twitter news and mainstream news. Mainstream news has to verify their sources and have a reputation to protect. They retract stories that turn out to be false. As you saw with Dominion, mainstream news has money to protect from slander lawsuits too. It’s not perfect and there is certainly bias, but on Twitter there are no guardrails for misinformation besides community notes.

On the one hand that’s good and on the other it makes misinformation extremely easy. Misinformation spreads like wildfire on Twitter and the corrections don’t. The corrections get buried in “nuh uh, YOU lie” bot spam unless it gets the community notes treatment.

Oh, apologies my good Lemming but you’re mistaken. We make affordable ones here but the auto companies decided they’d make more money if they artificially keep supply low to keep prices high. Car Graveyards

Don’t forget its fark, https://www.fark.com/

I was checking out Archer for streaming the other day and noticed the episodes were 22 minutes long, which means 8 minutes of commercials in that half-hour TV time slot, or 26.666% of the total time.

That’s why I stopped watching TV in the first place, they’re essentially offering to “pay” you 22 minutes of entertainment for every 8 minutes of ads you’ll watch and that’s just completely not worth it to me. Would you pay $2 to watch an hour-long show? If so, to watch ads instead, you’d pay them 16 minutes of your time, and your labor would be paid at a tad less than 8 dollars an hour in entertainment as currency. If you’d only pay a dollar, halve that.

I play games so that my entire 30 minutes is fun and I’ll pay for it with the money I make at my job rather than paying the TV industry in minutes of my time…the thing I have the least of. It’s this really weird setup that’s just become accepted where they pay us out in entertainment at near minimum-wage rates for time spent trying to program us.

(Archer aside…on shit that ain’t even that entertaining)

The whole fuckin thing isn’t worth it.

It absolutely should be, how could anyone have possibly accepted the terms and conditions of a Fishbowl account?!

Can we pretend that I shared the “I understood that reference” Captain America meme right here where it belongs?

43 percent thought God helped Tim Tebow throw touchdowns. Let’s keep this going.

What keeping this going might look like: Less than half can name all 3 branches of US government, with 26 percent unable to name a single branch.

Only about one third of Americans know that it’s Thomas Jefferson on the nickel.

These people vote.

I’m afraid this will be underappreciated, but you have my upvote.

…and my axe (or something)

Good bot.

Amen! There’s plenty of content to doomscroll through as well. I genuinely don’t miss Reddit as that part of my brain forgets it’s not Reddit. Hell, we should call Lemmy “I can’t believe it’s not Reddit” and hire Fabio to do a commercial.

User name checks out. I scrolled all the way down to make sure I can say this and still be original in this particular instance only.

Fully agree with all of that. The difference I see with ActivityPub is that we can say they can use it all they want but we won’t be connecting with them or interacting with their users at all.

And they honestly probably won’t care, but it makes it clear where the rest of us stand and communicates to current Fediverse users a commitment to stay as free as possible from corporate influence. I felt like there was no room for milquetoast answers to that question.

Yeah, to quote the Joker here “it’s about sending a message.” Doesn’t matter about the technical reality, it just would’ve determined the wording. “If they try to federate with us, we won’t have any of it.”

I didn’t see them say that though, saw a Mastodon post and an admin thread on .world that specifically said they would wait and see.

Thank you and you too. I apologize that I didn’t make my point more civilly. I’m an old-ass techie that has seen enshitification ruin just about every new frontier and being noncommittal about keeping them out while we have a chance is, to me, a surefire recipe to have big capital ruin this little experiment in freedom. I think that you just have to study Meta’s history to assure yourself that their intentions are always self-serving and never in the public interest. My incivility is purely because of how strongly I loathe them, not you. Take care.

I genuinely am. Part of why I hate Meta, Reddit, and Twitter is how callously they treat their users. The reason that I have very little patience for people that stick up for them is that I don’t like bullies or the enabling of bullies. Go take a look at the app permissions required to use Threads and tell me that any “nice” person would think it’s ok to harvest that much data. We are livestock to them.