MeetInPotatoes @ MeetInPotatoes @lemmy.ml

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Been saying it for a while, but his plan was to run it into the ground all along. Who is he buddy-buddy with in public? The Saudi's and the Russians, who both have an interest in seeing Twitter burn to the ground. He started by laying off people, not paying their bills, and making stupid brand decisions. This has been the plan all along and there's really no other logical explanation. 44 billion is nothing to the Saudis and Russian oligarchs if it takes away a key tool for organized dissent and the spread of western ideals.

I helped that guy with his website once. It was in like 2011/2012 and I was doing tech support and I'm not even sure the meme existed yet, but then I started seeing it everywhere. I certainly agreed with his main point immediately lol.

Haha, at first I read "country" as "county" and was like...wtf are you smoking, this is Dumbfuck, Alabama but on a country-wide level, I agree.

Yeah, I was actually just wrong, I found an older article that said it would be against the law in Europe and there were no plans to try it there.

Eh..it's not like they're not requiring you to put in 2 weeks notice, just tell a manager "Fuck you, I quit" at minimum. That's a pretty low bar. It's literally just no ghosting. And not like there is any enforcement mechanism assumed anyway, it's just a sign. Abusive employer situation, sure...no one would judge them and it's not like they can legally do anything.

Let's be serious, the bank owns the place until it's all paid off.

Thank you and you too. I apologize that I didn't make my point more civilly. I'm an old-ass techie that has seen enshitification ruin just about every new frontier and being noncommittal about keeping them out while we have a chance is, to me, a surefire recipe to have big capital ruin this little experiment in freedom. I think that you just have to study Meta's history to assure yourself that their intentions are always self-serving and never in the public interest. My incivility is purely because of how strongly I loathe them, not you. Take care.

I genuinely am. Part of why I hate Meta, Reddit, and Twitter is how callously they treat their users. The reason that I have very little patience for people that stick up for them is that I don't like bullies or the enabling of bullies. Go take a look at the app permissions required to use Threads and tell me that any "nice" person would think it's ok to harvest that much data. We are livestock to them.

I literally left Lemmy.world and stopped recurring donations to switch to Lemmy.ml

But you're muddying the waters with a disingenuous argument. They can be open to all individual users without being open to connection with possibly the worst actor in the social media space.

You're also mischaracterizing staying free of giant corporate influence as "taking overtly political actions blah blah on behalf of its users" and starting to sound 100% like a corporate shill with absolutely dogshit arguments that only a moron wouldn't see through.

Who is worse, Meta or the people who want nothing to do with Meta?

The answer to that is extremely easy.

Protecting their users from bad actors is exactly what server admins should be doing as good admins. That's not political, and go lick boot somewhere else.

The FOSS alternative to the big corporate controlled social media corps that swallow up smaller social media alternatives is not anti-corporate? Ok.

Just once, when I saw a post here linking to a Reddit post with all the backlash from ending awards.

I wanted to tell them all to abandon the sinking shithole of a ship that is Reddit and come to the Fediverse. Wasn't worth making an account over though, they'll figure it out.

Maybe it was their refusal to take a stance on Meta and Threads? The admins of .ml said it took them 2 minutes to decide to preemptively defederate. .World on the other hand came to an anti-corporate platform and publicly took a position that they would wait and see about federation with Meta.

It's like saying "power to the people and viva revolution but we are also remaining open to licking boot depending on the circumstances."

I was like...what do you mean monetized? This mfer won't even pay rent.

I feel like this mostly happens online, and relates to "Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory"

In addition, the phenomenon of social media has made everyone decide that what they have to say is just as important as a Nobel Prize Winner or president because all of our tweets and posts look the same. Everyone gets a virtual podium. To relatively insignificant people, the notion that they can shout back at a famous person or expert and appear to be on equal footing is too enticing to resist. A great example is someone who never spent a single day in med school trying to tell our nation's health experts that they were wrong about COVID for instance. The number of people with absolutely zero qualifications that thought their argument was worth making was depressing. Most would never do that in public and if they did, would simply be escorted out of the room and forgotten.

Creepy ass motherfuckers. You'd almost have to be a studio exec to think this is even something you should ask.

Obligatory Half Baked?

Damn dude, I'm gonna have to scrawl "for a good time call unga bunga" on a cave wall to beat this meme's age.

No, a cuck is when someone else is getting fucked.

This sign merely stipulates that you have to say "fuck you" to a manager before you leave.