I agree.

For sure. Any social media company that says they’re pro free speech is just posturing at best. They have full dictator control of their systems.

Yes. I don’t have any guaranteed speech rights on Facebook.

I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I’d vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.

What does it being the majority have to do with it? Being skinny is overrepresented in movies but that doesn’t seem to hurt sales.

I used to land there a lot on my searches, but ChatGPT gives higher quality results, unbelievably. Kagi+AI goes far.

I can’t, unfortunately. I still have an old Smart TV that isn’t too offensive and doesn’t show me ads. If it starts showing me ads sometime, then it’s gone. But I’m not really a videophile and I’ll watch shows on anything so I haven’t really looked at what’s better, only at what’s cheapest. I do hear it can be tricky because the commercial displays are meant to be brighter than TVs and maybe it can be hard to get them dialed in the way you want.

Last I looked, we could still buy commercial displays. They’re dumb TVs. They cost more, of course.

If the President controls the Press, and arguably Trump does, the US is in big trouble. It’s grim.

And yes, we can do all that stuff to fix it, but let’s be honest: we (as a country) are not going to.

The one thing I like with Lemmy and Mastodon (and decentralized in general) is that there’s no economic incentive to push echo chamber/inflammatory stuff. Doesn’t mean it can’t be there, of course, but at least there’s no one making more money by pushing it in my face. My feeds are tame and boring compared to those on “algorithmic” social media. And that’s how I like it. :)

Take some of those massive profits and fund your R&D division instead of paying them out. That’s how the big companies did it back in the glory days.

The FBI also doesn’t want back doors… They just want a way for law enforcement to access any encrypted messages they want to.

https://www.thesslstore.com/blog/us-senator-calls-fbi-director-dumb-stance-encryption/

https://archive.ph/19Hz4

Also pro-privacy, here. I was unable to get a good answer on this on HN. It seems to me that replacing a human entering data into a computer at the checkpoint with a computer entering data into a computer at the checkpoint wasn’t much of a change. The whole checkpoint area is already bristling with cameras, as well.

The closest we have to 555 is any social security number that starts with 9. Kinda dull. The closest one we have to a joke is probably 078-05-1120.

Should have stayed on until musk booted them. Missed opportunity. Also X needs more counter-content, not less.

Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I’ve seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

When I see this kind of thing, I think, “Screw that. I want to listen to real people.” But then I wonder if that’s because I’m GenX shaking my fist at cloud and in the future will this become normalized or even demanded?

I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

I don’t care what they do as long as they do it over there.