Either it’s that or I’m far leftist I guess, because the guy on the left is what I’ve been feeling like since I saw that salute.

The centre is the actual ones looking like the guy on the left. Everyone else is celebrating, either “I fucking told you so”, “oh cool, the class war/revolution is going to start for real now” or “yay our kinda guy”.

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I use https://miniflux.app/. It’s pretty small, costs $15/year. I do this because I want to keep my feed status across different devices.

I’m not perfectly happy with it. Perhaps it’s a bit too minimal. When I subscribe to an aggregate like Hacker News, it pretty much floods my feed and I get swamped.

If anyone has a slightly better alternative in mind, I’d be happy to hear.

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Well firstly, virtue signaling is not fundamentally a bad thing. Devil is in the details.

Second, that’s kinda rich coming from the guy who’s been nothing but virtue signaling towards the upcoming Trump admin since his failed assassination attempt.

Interesting way to be wrong. While thinking you’re being correct.

All of these applications (yes, also Lemmy and Mastodon) are feed for the AI machine. That’s where the money is.

And ads probably.

I mean it kinda already is a Twitter, just 5 years in the past.

His grand vision remains to leave Mastodon users in control of the social network, making their own decisions about what content is allowed or what appears in their timelines.

So uh… Mastodon will not have a moderation team?

I mean this makes sense, but how exactly is after-stopping-moderation Meta different then?

Good call.

How to delete is not the problem. That’s the trivial part. In fact, you don’t even need to delete your account. Just stop using it and it’s practically the same effect.

The problem is how to get your friends and acquintances out of there. Lots of things are there and only there. Like for instance, it’s my jujitsu club’s main place of information. If I quit FB, I will no longer know what’s happening there.

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Sure that would be a much better situation than the current free-for-all and practically no control possibilities for the parents – short of never giving them physical access to devices.

Ah, right. It’s possible yes that this would make it easier for them, but my understanding of technology is that it was pretty much possible like 10 years ago to track practically everyone who isn’t actively doing a countermeasures against it.

This is a terrible idea, and only makes it 10x easier for surveillance capitalism to track, profile, and propagandize the entire population.

I don’t see how that follows. Can you elaborate?

I found kind and supportive influences as a minor that kept me away from the hate/conservatism/fascism that many of my classmates descended into.

Do you think your classmates found those influences from somewhere outside the internet? At least in Europe, the alt-right has been way more efficient at reaching young people online, especially boys and men.

Actually verifying it and punishing the companies if they let underaged people use it. Alcohol stores are also punished when they sell products to children.

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Normal people do give a shit about LGBTQ

Normal people do not give a shit about LGBTQ, and I mean that in the best possible way. Unless it’s shoved right in their face, in which case they will most likely be put out by it. Pretty much the same concept as with other (often important) things that rampant activism turns into something abhorrent.