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There's a lot of "Weekend At Bernie's" going on in Congress these days huh?

Ironically Bernie is one of the least comatose of the bunch.

It's crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.

A reflection of the state of the world then?

I just want to know what the actual fuck happened to him. I know a lot of people will say he was always a man-child and there's some things to back that up for sure. But I swear COVID does something to some people and they just turned into complete unredeemable asses.

Spare some knowledge stranger? That's a dark path I don't wish to travel.

Honestly surprised there isn't more. There's a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.

Obvious a very low level study, but as someone with tinnitus any progress in their area is exciting!

Ebikes greatly increase potential riders as well as actual riders. This increases infrastructure pressure and makes biking more viable for all. Not to mention shifting more short trips to bike vs car, helping car owners see the other side etc

I see no way they aren't a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.

Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that's not how it works... At all.

Remove corporations from social networks.

A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.

There's just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn't need to be there.

The idea of adding a filter between human connection that will distort the message for profit is crazy for a few reasons. Most of all because it simply doesn't need to happen.

I mean how many of the current worldwide ills are a direct result of algorithms designed to increase engagement through ragebaiting? Disinformation is effective in no small part due to these algorithms making sure you're made enough to engage and doom scroll. As long as you have a profit motive in these discussions this will be inevitable as far as I can see.

When you imagine a world without Fox/Twitter/Meta/Reddit/Google (not all as culpable of course) force feeding things intent on making you engage (most easily though anger/rage - thanks evolution) it's hard not to picture a better world. The internet pre-corporate control was a very different place due to a number of factors. I would argue mostly due to a lack of profit motive on social connection.

Honestly, fuck proprietary systems and corporate control. Algos and corporations are literally destroying the world. The fediverse might be one of the most important technologies on the I internet in a very long time. This is a hill I will die on.