The people at the bottom don’t see it because their media stream is wholly owned by the elites. The elites don’t care about seeming like hypocrites as long as they can grab power and use it to enrich themselves or enact their fascist policies.

Kirk on the last South Park episode:

“We as conservatives have thick skin, not thin skin, and you can make fun of us and it doesn’t matter.”

I guess he didn’t know his audience.

The right-wing mediasphere is in a frenzy equating anyone talking bad about Kirk with ‘supporting political violence’. They’re doxing people, calling their jobs to get them fired, etc.

This is just more of the same kind of bullying.

You can say that we need to kill homeless people on Fox News but you can’t claim that Republicans are pro-violence without being doxxed, harassed and canceled.

It is illegal, if you violate the laws then people with guns show up and lock you in a cage where you can’t do the illegal thing.

Or, if you can’t read, Veritasium did a video: https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg

Yeah, Nexstar canceled Kimmel for calling this behavior out but still carries Fox

Next up, cards with RTX 6090 performance for $150 on Temu.

That’s why the meme went away and 18th century mutinies happened.

One can’t help but point out that there were no World Wars before sea shanties, and now there are two (soon, 3).

It’s social media, people only react to the headlines… they don’t educate themselves on the issue because that would interfere with them generating the next hot take.

I think it’s a pointless change, it’s not too difficult to create multiple identities if you wanted to moderate multiple subreddits. The actors trying to control subreddit moderation for commercial or political purposes will not be slowed down by the requirement that they maintain multiple identities.

If they wanted to ‘fix’ the comment toxicity problem, they could require x active moderators per active user. If it goes above that then non-subscribers can’t comment. The rules don’t mean much if there are 10,000 people commenting on each of 3 posts and there is 1 moderator who’s afk and checking the report queue a few time per day.

Also, if you notice from most of Lemmy, having a smaller community creates social pressure for people to behave better. Once it gets to the point where you never see the same person twice people think they can behave badly because nobody knows them.

I haven’t used Spotify, until recently, since it was first released. Its big value over Pandora was that it let you choose what to listen to…when did that change?

I’m using spotx on Linux so I don’t get ads, can search individual songs, etc. I thought the free tier was just ad supported, I didn’t realize that they didn’t let you pick what you wanted to listen to.

In other news, Trump has saved TikTok so the drone factory won’t shut down after all.

There’s like 3 rendering engines. Not everything can be described with a tier list.

It’s almost certainly some traffic analytics package for the website.

They sound good in their marketing, they provide a bunch of useful statistics about visitors so the site can be tweaked for ease of access or to lower bounce rate.

The downside is that they often have rights to that data under their TOS because aggregation of data from multiple sites is how they provide a service.

The concern is that this data can be used to locate individual people and to learn of their associated identities. This is true even if they claim the data is “anonymized”, it’s a trivially simple process to use a second data set to correlate details and deanonymize the data.

It was said in a Discord chat. Discord chats are not private, you agree to that in the TOS when you sign up.

There are always people monitoring the chats, voice and video, looking for illegal activities. Something was said in that conversation that their algorithm flagged for human review and that person sent it to law enforcement.

You have zero privacy on any social media. Everything that you write is viewable by the service owner and they actively look for things to report to law enforcement.

Companies pay lip service to your privacy, but at the end of the day they’ll turn you in the instant it suits them. If you want privacy, you use encryption so that your privacy is guaranteed by mathematics.

It’s like the lottery, but wose

Would you like to know more?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_now,_decrypt_later

Sounds like a CSAM case for a motivated partisan prosecutor.

People break the law, as it is written, way more than they think. Selective enforcement to target political rival groups is very much in the playbook here.

It is less safe to speak in public today than it was 2 years ago, and it is only getting worse. Protecting your privacy also means protecting yourself from mob justice when they decide you’re the new target group.

How can the AP make such a basic mistake as calling Internet access ‘Wi-Fi’?

The Taliban didn’t ban Wi-Fi, they banned fiber optic internet connections. People can run Wi-Fi networks all day.

You may as well assume that anything done on public social media is being read, searched and filtered in real-time by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.

Given the trajectory of this administration in persecuting people for their political affiliation, dumping commercial social media should be an imperative for everyone who isn’t goose stepping.