Oh cool, so like, piece of shit corporations can just mow down many more forests, rainforests and shit under the guise "but but we got this thing from scientists where we can replace the trees with these cages!". Fucking hell.
I praise the breakthrough but I don't think it's going to be carried out as intended.
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That's a fundamental flaw I am seeing with the fediverse, least some instances while understanding it's not exclusive to just here. When the head of a community isn't around, it's free game for those to shit all over it unanswered. It's frustrating and I had wished there would have been some plans to have backup individuals capable of upholding the values of the community to prevent it from falling down or into the wrong hands.
The fediverse is supposed to be a representative of an alternative escape for those tired of the centralized networks of social media. When we're dealing with cases like these, it just makes everything look weak and unattractive to would be newcomers just beginning to understand the alternatives of the fediverse.
I would apply myself but really I can admit that I might not always be around either and knowing people are facing issues, it sucks.
"That just gave us $50 a month to pay for the kids to do sports or band or whatever they wanted to do, so it helped out the budget," Prescher stated to Fox
This is probably a good thing. No, really, it is. Think about where you could best spend that money and the hobbies you'll embrace than coming online to try and integrate with a totally fractured society on display when it comes to the internet.
Look at this fucking mess with these bots and lonely losers with too much time on their hand. They've all taken a dump on multiple instances and magazines....
That's sounding like a feasible option. I've thrown myself back into Lemmy itself because I can't take the constant breaking of Kbin and seeing so much potential just trashed about in instances like this.
I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
Arturo Béjar, known for his expertise on curbing online harassment, recounted to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg his own daughter’s troubling experiences with Instagram. But he said his concerns and warnings went unheeded. And on Tuesday, it was Béjar’s turn to testify to Congress....
It makes me question - did it really take for these harassments to happen to his family for him to finally testify? I mean, we have an insurmountable level of evidence for 15 years now, about how bad and amplified online harassment has gotten through social media.
And, trying to reason with a sycophant like Mark is going to be a waste of time so I think he shouldn't have bothered. Unless it's about money, Mark won't care. Look at how FB functions these days, it takes like some 6 - 7 clicks to deactivate your account when it should be 3 at the least. Notifications are delayed. You get fed posts from your friends that are treated like new but have been seen and are old. Live support is non-existent, they rely on a half-assed wiki portal of their own to go through to solve problems.
Need I also point out, today's Congress is the worst Congress you can have when it comes to talking to technological problems with. Unless the social media platforms plays in their party's favor for re-election purposes, they aren't going to lift a finger to do fuck all about these problems.
And here I thought all of the posts I've read of people projecting hard on FB charging for it's service were all full of shit. They were full of shit until now. It's going to make it's way into America, but I don't think it'll dent Americans from avoiding it. After all, Twitter is charging people $1 now to use it to combat "bots" and I doubt that has slowed anything down. Meta will probably do the same, Americans will be mad for about a week, but pay it anyways because that's the new American Way and everything will be brushed under the rug.
Fucking wonderful. I've been wondering lately why it is that I've been so depressed, it's because we haven't been in the best days of the internet since 2007/2008.
So when I joined Kbin I knew I loved the merge of Microblogs and Threads allowing users to use two parts of the Fediverse at the same time. There are little parts of the Fediverse that I haven't seen added yet and wonder if there are possible plans for it....
For me, politician. You have to exploit the worst low instincts of the people to get elect and say what they want to hear, even if you don't think a word about it, and you are not obligated to hold any of your promises.
Politician would definitely win. You have to really whore yourself out to be even remotely likeable if you want votes. You have to spend like crazy campaigning. You have to go around from town to town, actively making promises you know you won't keep. You lie your face off in every debate you're in.
Then if you finally reach a position, it's literally like a cushy job with, somehow, the bare minimum requirements. The worst you can do is just not fulfill your promises but then again, you lied enough anyways so what does it matter? You could get into trouble with authorities but again that depends on position and some political positions give you diplomatic immunity and if you're in one of those, then go ahead and break nearly all the laws short of killing people.
Politicians' key things to do is just talk, write on paper, sit for prolong periods to vote on things and basically just rely on other staff to do all of the dirty work for you. All at the expense of those they govern.
I hate it when people on social media, dare ask questions when you know they're fishing for personal information/ammo on people to exploit. Like asking for people's dark secrets. Why do you want to know? Is there a fetish to this? Nobody is going to be dead serious, they're just going to give softball answers and why should they...
Life and the world isn't that bad. Like, in some parts it is, but people need to understand that you alone cannot exactly control everything on how they work. They're going to happen anyways. The media has, for decades, successfully ingrained people's minds and mentalities to believe everything must be bad by the minute and to always expect the worse.
But if you stop doom-scrolling for prolonged periods of time and realize this, things aren't as bad as projected.
And how bastardized their perspective on social activities and being in public can get.
Masturbate and consume porn too much, next thing you know, you're gazing at people's asses, crotches and breasts imagining all sorts of fantasies you'd like to do involving them.
People expect sex within the first date. It could get worse from there.
Scientists discover breakthrough in carbon dioxide absorbers replacing trees (infoterkiniviral.com)
Scientists have made a significant breakthrough by finding a material capable of storing carbon dioxide faster than trees
Nvidia goes Open Source, Cosmic update, attack bypasses VPN: Linux & Open Source News (youtube.com)
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New Mods Please (kbin.social)
Like seriously, where are the current ones at? There's too much trash and clutter posts here.
Millions of US families at risk of losing affordable internet (townflex.com)
"That just gave us $50 a month to pay for the kids to do sports or band or whatever they wanted to do, so it helped out the budget," Prescher stated to Fox
Yeah um...what future... (kbin.social)
Look at this fucking mess with these bots and lonely losers with too much time on their hand. They've all taken a dump on multiple instances and magazines....
Can KBin not like, freak out at any turn when surfing on it? (kbin.social)
I forced myself to go back a little to Reddit recently. Because while I endorse and love the existence of the Fediverse, I can't in good conscience, tolerate the instability of it. Any other time I go somewhere, I'm met with a page that says KBin is working on resolving issues, then I go somewhere else and it's fine....
Reddit Files to Go Public, Reveals That It Paid CEO $193 Million Last Year (thedailybeast.com)
Nineteen years since its founding, the social media site is finally going public.
Exclusive: Reddit in AI content licensing deal with Google (reuters.com)
Social media platform Reddit has struck a deal with Google to make its content available for training the search engine giant's artificial intelligence models, three people familiar with the matter said.
Best Buy to Exit Physical DVD and Blu-Ray Sales in 2024 - Retail TouchPoints (retailtouchpoints.com)
Best Buy will reportedly stop selling physical DVDs in-store and online beginning in 2024, according to CNBC and other media outlets.
"We can't trust them with our children:" A Meta engineer saw his own child face harassment on Instagram. Now, he's testifying before US Congress (techxplore.com)
Arturo Béjar, known for his expertise on curbing online harassment, recounted to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg his own daughter’s troubling experiences with Instagram. But he said his concerns and warnings went unheeded. And on Tuesday, it was Béjar’s turn to testify to Congress....
Facebook and Instagram to Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe | Meta (about.fb.com)
To comply with evolving European regulations, we're introducing a new subscription option in the EU, EEA and Switzerland.
Is Kbin trying to be a one-stop shop for the Fediverse? (kbin.run)
So when I joined Kbin I knew I loved the merge of Microblogs and Threads allowing users to use two parts of the Fediverse at the same time. There are little parts of the Fediverse that I haven't seen added yet and wonder if there are possible plans for it....
What's the most cynical profession ever ? (kbin.social)
For me, politician. You have to exploit the worst low instincts of the people to get elect and say what they want to hear, even if you don't think a word about it, and you are not obligated to hold any of your promises.
What questions do you hate being asked and why? (kbin.social)
I hate it when people on social media, dare ask questions when you know they're fishing for personal information/ammo on people to exploit. Like asking for people's dark secrets. Why do you want to know? Is there a fetish to this? Nobody is going to be dead serious, they're just going to give softball answers and why should they...
What is something that can be considered as bad as smoking, but people still do it anyways? (kbin.social)
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