What’s insane to me, is how people keep agreeing to the surveillance madness and we have reached this level at all.

There was a sitewide protest when they killed the API but no one left.

I’m no one important and I left. I think a lot of people are fed up with being monetized at every turn.

If there really are more bots than real people participating as others claim, then the real people are going somewhere. Maybe they will stumble in here.

You can't have any discussion of anything on lemmy without insane people chiming in and trying to derail the conversation by making it all about themselves, and injecting their violent rhetoric into it.

That is anywhere you go. Not just Lemmy.

if we share information on how to undermine reddit's efforts, maybe it will cause them lose grip on their monopoly over online forums

Bringing niche communities and the people that go with them here will also accomplish the same goal.

I’m officially calling it “Actual Idiocy”

Sounds like Google wants to do all the thinking for you.

I tend to have better exchanges with people when I ask if they have heard of it first. Then I try to phrase my point of view as my experience and/or my opinion. This has helped me. Might not work for you though. Every personality is unique.

No camera but it will six microphones.

students in the bootcamp are required to start a brand-new account on X-formerly-Twitter, for which they’re required to get a minimum of 100 organic followers, pay for X Premium, and post an unknown number of replies to “bigger accounts with real substance,”

All this sounds less like education and more experimentation with the children being the lab rats.

Amazing how older series were able to produce many more episodes per season, with a more limited budget, and only a few months between them.

The old adage "less is more" comes to mind.

With all the malware, etc., clicking on any ad is ill advised.