You can’t spy on our citizens, that’s our (and our corporations’) job!

Signed, the US Government

I’d rather they just ban spy apps in general…but that’s a “dream a little dream, it’s never gonna happen” type of thing.

Yes, I understand your point and agree with you for the most part.

I feel like there was a turning point in the Internet though, where the federation of user identities basically ended for most Internet users. I track it to the advent of MySpace and Facebook. People started using their actual identities on these sites (most likely, at first, to attempt to get laid), and our privacy began being flushed down the toilet then. I also think the creation of Google Chrome with Google’s all-consuming want for private data and to tie all of your Internet activity to a real person had a big hand in this as well. The modern Internet is a surveillance Internet.

As the article states, it’s no longer true that “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog”. They hook you to your actual physical identity the instant you do anything on your phone, search using a logged in account, browse one of their sites with your logged in cookie, or generally browse anything after you’ve touched any of the major social media sites because they added trackers to everything.

In some ways, this is beneficial because many cannot handle anonymity, but the bad parts of the Internet have largely drowned out the good. As the Internet has scaled, more and more of the bad side of humanity is reflected digitally. To add to that mix, the major sites in their fun house mirror algorithms supposedly designed to amplify engagement (or “enragement algorithms” as I sometimes say) constantly amplify items posted by the most degenerate among us.

However Lemmy is still way bigger than what a mid 90s experience with the internet would be.

IRC was a ghost town the last time I checked in on it. In the mid-90s there were constantly thousands of people on it.

So, we’re not doing Section 230 anymore ?

That’s a part of a US law, and as such doesn’t throw a shrimp on the bar-b in Australia, mate.

I also sub to a few channels on Odyssee, and a couple on Rumble. If you’re good at searching for stuff, PeerTube can also work, but I personally haven’t found anything I really like there.

Good on you because the goal of getting off of google is definitely good but…these names sound like things that a writer would come up with as fictional social media platforms on a comedy show.

This is the self checkout of learning. Requires the same amount of employees with the same skills as before, but wait, now it’s also worse!

Yeah, a streaming service with the hit songs like “Zyme Bedewing” from everyone’s favorite artist “Calorie Event”.

Finally a use case for AI.

Is it an option to not? Cuz if so that’s what I’d choose.

It remains funny to me that futurism.com became mostly about covering the dystopia we live in.

I maintain my insistence that you owe me a business model!

How is that a privileged point of view?

Leveraged buyouts specifically should be outlawed.

EDIT: And billionaires should be taxed on the money they receive as loans.

The “buy borrow die” tax strategy should either be completely outlawed or the government should be able to get portions of those loan payments back as tax money.

Let me know where I can opt out of Equifax.

Sure both can be used by scammers, but in fiat the currency itself isn’t usually the scam.

“Once they’ve completed the scam they have to move onto other scams.”

Are you even thinking at all when constructing these arguments?

It’s funny how in this country, the public rhetoric is inundated with people decrying this type of behavior from governments as “big brother” and 1984, but as soon as you slap an inc on the back and make it Big Brother, Inc everyone’s completely fine with it.

Well most crypto currency is backed by maths and no matter how many guns you point at it, you cannot make 2+2= anything other than 4.

Sure, you can make one type of coin or other rare or rate limited or whatever, but you can also just make up a different shit coin and give yourself a metric shit ton of that new coin, and then eventually try to move to either a more stable coin or back into fiat once you’ve gotten enough suckers holding the bag to exit.

That makes crypto ultimately not based on maths at all, but based on hype, stupidity, and scams alone.

Finally people are starting to ask the questions that actually matter.