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In addition to the Meta/FB policy, there is also a Threads Supplemental Privacy Policy.

It states that data from interactions on Threads from Third Party servers is collected to improve Meta/FB services including post content, post actions, public user profile and IP Address.

That in itself isn't unthinkable or unexpected, but the implication of Threads using all of our interaction data for their own specialized tracking purposes makes me uncomfortable, so I'm glad many Fediverse servers supporting blocking interactions with Threads servers.

Precisely. Putting more of the control onto Microsoft server means this: you do anything that they don't like? No Windows for you. Oh, now we need more money so now we're putting in a shitty change, don't like it? Suck it up.

This is why trust on the internet is very important.

Dunkey reacting to getting a mundane item in a game like a chisel as if he just picked up the best item in the game: "Yes. YES! I got the chisel!" never fails to crack me up.

I suppose the reasoning is that rich people have to pay off more people to get what they want.

So instead of flying 5 people on their personal jet it would be 10, or 20... and all of them would have to be willing to suspend their moral and ethical principles continually for these kinds of kickbacks (or for no other reason than to 'own the libs')

Half the "support chat bots" I've talked to is just a paraphrased version of searching their support article database. If it's not in there I pretty much have to talk to a real agent.

That said I don't think companies would want chatbots that could do more than that, at least for the time being.

They could end up being convinced into giving me an 80% VIP discount without the company's consent.

E: fixed a they're i was tired this morning

To me, it appears that the ongoing follow up protests keep the power-admins' hands full from reopening the smaller privated subreddits.

You've just drop kicked the launch button that will blast Lemmy into space.

Don't forget to say beeeeeeeeeehawwwwwwww after doing that 😋

Reddit mods, face the music. Your volunteer work is only going to get harder and even more thankless from here. Quit while you're up.

I get what you're saying, but this is part of the mindset that allows billionaire CEOs to evade all accountability for their white-collar crime.

Sure, the judge arguably should reduce the jail sentence, but this is the law in Japan and prosecutors should pursue a penalty for contravening it, to discourage profiting off of unethical and illegal behaviour.

That's a really good point. With stupid electoral maps the game is already rigged, the Governor is just playing it like anyone.

US politics is so fucked up.

I upvoted both 😈

i am suuuuper hyped for this game.

“I used to think he was a great governor,” Santos, the first non-incumbent gay Republican elected to Congress, said of DeSantis. “Now, I’m starting to think differently.”

The Hill quoting the NY Republican Senator and chronic liar George Santos takes the cake.

I would much rather be on matrix... but discord sure is convenient.

So you can't use the front page of feddit.online through beehaw, you will need an feddit.online account for that. However, the same posts on feddit.online (most I see on the front page are from beehaw, Lemmy communities or kbin.social), you can participate from beehaw. For example https://feddit.online/m/kbinStyles@kbin.social is roughly equivalent to https://beehaw.org/c/kBinStyles@kbin.social

It's in the article but to paraphrase it:

When a large company takes an open protocol, embraces it using adding users to the network through heir platform, then extends it using proprietary means, they have full control over how the protocol runs in the network.

When the open standards are forced to make changes to be functional with the dominant proprietary app that is poorly (and sometimes incorrectly) documented, open source groups are constantly on the backfoot in order to maintain compatibility, and that makes it harder to compete on their own right.

A second example given is LibreOffice, whose documents are made to fit the XML standard by Microsoft, but there are quirks in their documented standard that if you follow it too closely it isn't formatted quite the same as the document produced in Microsoft Office, so they were pressured to effectively copy MS and deviate from the standards MS claims to follow.

If I run my own instance, I can choose who I share with and who I don't.

The simple fact of the matter is that I don't want my data to be Zucc'd, and clearly I'm not the only one who thinks that way.

If there's one thing I can give Gemini credit for, is that it's simple enough that should something break HTTP everywhere all at once, maybe this could be brought up, where nerds could talk to each other. Actually, nerds can talk to each via Gemini now even without a total internet apocalypse.

It's a novelty kind of communication, like cups tied with a taut string, or short wave radio.