It's a marketing and publicity stunt, kinda like Nothing's fiasco with the Sunbird app. The goal is to get people talking about them and come out looking like the good guy underdog vs Apple. To be fair their plan is probably working judging by how many people are jumping out in front of Beeper and condemning "Big Apple", even though Apple is just doing what any service provider should be doing.

It's because denial is part of being an alcoholic. The same goes with being called a liar.

It is not anti-woke, which by anti-woke logic means it's woke.

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My personal observation is that people have been fed up for quite a while, not so much by the Instagram app itself but by Meta's brand, their untrustworthiness and the general vapid and scammy nature of the hordes of Influencers and "hustlers". It's just regular folks aren't aware of decent alternatives or the alternatives aren't quite there yet.

ZUCKERELLA used SLIPPER DROP in the METAVERSE! It's not very effective!

sometimes include malware

Source? That's a pretty serious accusation.

It was a pretty decent email app developed by Google back in the day. They discontinued it a few years ago and some features made it into the Gmail app, but not all.

I think that's an strong statement and overreaction on your part, but to that point mass adoption isn't always a good thing.

I find that the content on Tildes are generally more respectful, thoughtful and higher quality. Much better signal to noise ratio. Lemmy does have quality stuff but there is also a lot more low quality / low effort content to wade through. Just look at the state of Showerthoughts / AskLemmy if you are looking for examples.

AI is a blanket term that is used to describe many different things and more recently used as a Bogeyman by the media to scare everyone's pants off.

The "AI" that's all the hype recently à la ChatGPT, Bard etc are "generative AI" based on Large Language Models. They seem really good at answering questions, creating content, rewriting text etc. The "threat" to humanity at the moment is more about industries being disrupted, jobs being replaced by these technologies, etc. Customer Service, Copywriting, Legal and creative industries are all impacted. In the longer term, as with all technologies, there is a concern that there will be an imbalance in the access of this tech and for example, only the rich and powerful can truly harness the power of these tools.

There is also the more Doomsday interpretation of "AI" which in this case, really means AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), where the AI actually becomes sentient and can think / reason for itself. I think this is still in the realm of science fiction today but who knows about the future. The worry here is that if such a sentient being become malevolent for one reason or another, we would be dealing with an AI Overlord kind of scenario with the superior computing power, access and knowledge that it will have.