The goal was to attract Twitter refugees. No ads helps sell the “greener pastures” the users were looking for.

Once those users are comfortable, Threads can do whatever it wants. They know how much it took to get Twitter users to leave Twitter.

People acting like Meta launched Threads out of the kindness of Zuck’s heart are dumb as fuck. Threads has the same goal as Facebook: to make money selling your eyeballs to advertisers and your metadata to data brokers.

This is a picture of Tehran’s upper class youth from the 70’s, and it is often posted as if it were everyday life in Iran.

Spoiler: The rich in Iran can still do whatever they want.

This is extremely funny given that he just resigned from Congress effective immediately.

The bridge is necessary because BlueSky and Mastodon cannot federate, and they never will be able to. ActivityPub and ATProto are different protocols.

Yeah, they need to pick themselves up by their bootstraps. If they wanted to retire, they should have saved enough dollars to afford dignity in old age.

In China? I mean, there were two back to back incidents, but to my understanding not a pattern.

They really are good businessmen

If you measure success by how much cash you can exploit for yourself…

Those aren’t rumors. The Lemmy repo is quite open about this. Lemmy’s devs are part of the Tankie problem here.

Honestly, Kbin and Mbin are looking very attractive, not being run by extremists. Lemmy, as a product, is dragged down by the Tankies that make it - just as Pleroma (a Mastodon alternative) is dragged down by the Neo-Nazis that make it.

Centralized platforms get top-down control. You’re trading your freedom for convenience.

Stop pining for the algorithms. They’re making you stupider by guaranteeing that you only see the content you want to see, and never the content you need to see.

Bluesky is not decentralized at all.

Don’t fall for it. Read their privacy policy.

They keep your data in the cloud and share it with third parties, including advertisers.

Pen and paper doesn’t snitch.

We listen to them all the time. We hear the right’s grievances. How on earth are we supposed to work with people who believe in complete falsehoods?

“Transgenderists are cutting off little boys’ dicks and telling them they’re girls”

“Haitian immigrants are eating people’s pets”

“Planned Parenthood is performing post-birth abortions”

“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are full blown Communists”

“Immigrants are destroying the economy by taking all the jobs and not paying taxes”

“Antifa burned Minneapolis and Seattle to the ground”

“Democrats run open borders and let illegals vote”

“Sandy Hook was a false flag to take away our guns”

“The 2020 election was systematically stolen by Democrats”

“The all powerful superhuman deity in the sky personally endorses my political party/candidate and the opposition are literal demons”

“Demons, spawned by Democrats, are attacking conservative TV hosts in their beds”

“Hillary Clinton run a sex trafficking ring out of D.C.”

“Hunter Biden’s laptop”

“Central Americans are invading America to rape our women”

What the fuck are we supposed to do when this is what the right presents us? These people literally pissed and shit all over the capital when they lost the 2020 election. Are we supposed to humor these shit stains?

If things are going good in your life you don’t need to be told by someone that it is, you just know it in your bones.

That simply isn’t true. The right propagandizes doom and gloom to their base every chance they get. Many conservatives live very privileged lives and still convince themselves that the country and their way of life is on the edge of oblivion. The wider that propaganda spreads, the harder it is to get anyone to see any of the actual progress in the world.

Those two sentences would be a lot less horrible if they weren’t prefaced with “THE FACTS:”.

We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.

That’s a poor conclusion. A similar image could be created using masks and AI inpainting. You could take a photo on a rainy day and add in the disaster components using GenAI.

That’s definitely not the case in this scenario, but we shouldn’t rely on things like verifying real-world locations to assume that GenAI wasn’t involved in making a photo.

I mean, now that we know the addresses of people like Nick Fuentes and Matt Walsh, we should be able to figure out everywhere else they go too.

If we want to find the addresses of other notable fascists, just keep track when/where they’re seen publicly until you figure out which device on the map is theirs, then see where they go at night.

But if Democrats actually took meaningful action to prevent Republicans from steamrolling our rights, what will they campaign on next election?

Talk you say? Buddy, even if the Democrats had the balls to try, it’s already too late. Republicans blocked Obama from his constitutional right to nominate a new justice. You really think they won’t do everything possible to prevent this?

Or if it did happen, you really think Biden is the one that will get to fill those seats?

Yes, famously anti-capitalist Conservatives…