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[-] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

Abandon all of these platforms and any others that associate in any way with Palantir or Thiel

[-] root@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Almost wish I could be part of the exodus, but I use none of these

[-] mp3@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 weeks ago
[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's a great way to kill those products. That's maybe the only upside.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Is it?

Most people won't care and continue using it anyways.

I won't, for sure, but most people are fucking idiots when it comes to this stuff

[-] lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

The problem is there are a lot of subreddits that are an excellent resource. As far as I know, there aren't any Blender help instances with a 100,000 people. I really wish there were.

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[-] lechekaflan@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fucking Peter literally creating the very monster he claims to hate.

16 And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

FUCK THE SYSTEM!

[-] tanisnikana@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

With the unlubed, thorny, gritty, legendary dildo of consequences!

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[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Fucking never. Never ever. I'd sooner cut myself off from all technology and live in the woods than willingly give those creepy fucks my middle goddamn name. There is absolutely nothing good that will come from this company. The people at that company literally fucking movie villains. It's fucking crazy that absolutely anyone works with them, let alone world governments.

These large scale surveillance companies like Palantir, like Flock, they shouldn't exist. They should be outlawed. Our government needs probable cause and a warrant to surveil a suspect. If a normal civilian followed you around and filmed you, kept track of you at all times, they'd be arrested for stalking. But for some reason private companies can just watch every man, woman, and child in public and online, catalog all our movements, where we went, how we went there, who was with us, track what we do, what we read, who we know, how we spend our time, what we say, etc., and then permanently log all of that, use it to form dociers on us, predict our behaviors, or desires, ways to manipulate us, and then turn around and sell that data to governments, other companies and private parties. How the fuck is that legal.

Why in the fuck would you ever allow a private, profit-driven company to have that kind of power over your nation, let alone reward it with federal dollars, long term contracts and access to our law enforcement and military data and systems?

Worse, the founders and CEO are unhinged wannabe dictators trying to form their own sovereign techno-states. They're not even secretive about that. And our goverment is fucking funding these nuts and giving them every detail of the lives of our citizenry, our goverment officials, our military... how fucking stupid do we have to be, guys? I wish I could say it's just Trump but it's not. It's mind boggling.

[-] roboticfireplace@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I’m here because of this. 10 year old Reddit account deleted, app deleted, done over and out.

[-] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

If people cared about "the children" they wouldn't let them on the Internet until they were 21.

If people cared about humanity they wouldn't allow "the algorithms" to exist or let social media or news media exist they way it does now.

[-] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 weeks ago

I don’t think that’s the solution though, kids (including teens to some extent) can be on the internet but it requires better parenting. It’s better to monitor what they are doing online until they are like 15 or 16, maybe 17 if you have a really good reason too. Limit screen time, be around to answer questions your kid has about what they might see.

Little kids though? Absolutely should be off the internet. Anyone under 10 shouldn’t be on the internet period in my opinion. 10-12 is kinda a gray zone to me where it’s definitely up to the parents and if they think their child is ready.

[-] oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Also since they weren’t allowed on the internet till they were 21, those 21 year olds won’t know how to act on the internet. So now there’s 21 year olds roaming around who will need to figure all that shit out. They might get other aspects of being an adult but the internet will be completely alien.

It’s like when I saw people saying kids shouldn’t be allowed into the grocery store because someone was annoyed that kids didn’t know how to behave there yet. You just create a new and larger problem where adults don’t know how to act.

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[-] tburkhol@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

My nephew has a new baby. Her parents are constantly waving their phones in her face; sending pics back and forth; generally doing 'millenial things' with their phones when not actively attending the baby. Then proceed to get all freaked out when the baby expresses interest or curiosity in the phone.

Kids mimic their parents behavior and interests. If you want kids with healthy internet use, you have to have parents model healthy internet use.

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That mentality is why teenage pregnancies happen. "Oh, just don't do it kids! Sex is bad! Sex is only for adults!"

Schools and parent HAVE to do a better job about teaching kids how to actually be safe on the internet and how to interact with content on the internet. Keeping children uneducated only makes uneducated adults.

Plus there are so many children who need the internet for both learning purposes, and safety purposes. And also how the fuck would 18-20 year olds be able to do daily life things like have a job, have a bank account, and access government services without the internet.

Keep people educated, stop hiding them from uncomfortable and "dangerous" topics. Silence and ignorance is what governments and companies want.

We have kids protesting ICE on Roblox. Gen Z rebeled in Nepal with social media. Young people deserve freedom too.

[-] Virtvirt588@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

If people cared about "the children" they wouldn't let them on the Internet until they were 21.

Yeah, that's only for the people that think they care, but are actually ageist and discriminate.

Protecting children comes in hand with protecting humanity. The sole existence of predatory algorithms, and other shit makes age meaningless.

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

The guy that said:

Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain.

I genuinely don't understand how is he still free and alive. He's as close to a real life devil you'd find. In his own words - he's working on societal collapse to gain more power. Can someone do something already?

[-] bagsy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

Thats going to finally break my reddit addition, and ill bet any amount of money im not alone.

[-] big_slap@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

the API fiasco forced me off, so im glad I had a 2 year start on federation

[-] U7826391786239@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

go through and edit your comments to be gibberish before you delete your acccount

[-] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

They'll undo it. Go look at mine that shouldn't exist.

[-] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

You could piss off the admins big time and they'll ban and suspend all your accounts using advanced methods to connect them across different emails or even if you signed up anonymously, and not a single thing you ever wrote on there will ever be visible to the world again. Ask me how I know.

[-] turboSnail@piefed.europe.pub 2 points 2 weeks ago

Alternatively, sell your account to spammers, and they'll get your account banned in no time. Your comments get deleted, you'll get paid for it, and Reddit becomes worse for everyone. I see no downsides in this arrangement.

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[-] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

Lemmy is better anyway.

[-] abilol@feddit.cl 4 points 1 week ago

Is anyone suprised?

[-] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

I tried convincing my friends to leave discord, and only 2 people attempted, but I kind of fucked up by enabling message encryption.

But now that this bullshit is here, I wonder if I should try again? I might go the VPS route and call it a day, but I really want to have it locally hosted so I don't have yet another thing to pay monthly.

[-] discocactus@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

So no more bots on Reddit then right????

[-] zbyte64@awful.systems 3 points 1 week ago

I'm sure the market will innovate and give us rentable biometrics.

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[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago

And I'm compelled to tell them to suck my ass.

[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I guess I'm compelled not to use Roblox, Reddit or Discord, then.

[-] KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

for Roblox, at least, you're not missing out. If I wanted to get fleeced by a bunch of pedophiles and bigots, I'd check out the next RNC gathering.

[-] Redvenom@retrolemmy.com 2 points 1 week ago

Fuck those fuckers

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Theil should be removed from any authoritative seats he may hold, and then be stripped of his wealth to stop him buying our elected officials

[-] Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Also buried up to his neck in the desert.

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[-] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I’m permaband from Reddit but I miss some local subs. I hope this encourages people to move away to something else.

[-] funkyfarmington@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

How do they permaban you? By IP address? I can't see how they could verify a new user being the same person as a old one. Email address is trivial to get around too.

[-] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

I got permabanned a while ago. In the time since, I’ve moved to a new country and gotten all new devices. Made a new account with a new email address to try to join local subs in the new area.

That account was banned a couple hours later for ban evasion. I had made zero comments or posts and hadn’t joined any of my old subs. After that, I assumed they just have an AI that auto bans a chunk of new accounts “just in case”, because I genuinely have no idea what they could have done to connect the two accounts to each other.

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[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

"Compelled"

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