complacent_jerboa @ complacent_jerboa @lemmy.world

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oh shit, nice username

excuse me

I'm a clean slut for water

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At first glance, the one on the right needs to charge they phone, since the one on the left is clearly taking a photo. However:

• the one on the left could be lying, and only pretending to use their phone (which is actually dead)
• the one on the left could actually be using their phone, which is at 5% battery (still needs to be charged, just not dead yet)
• the one on the right may not have their phone with them at all

So actually I'm gonna say the one on the left needs to charge they phone, and the one on the right therefore must be bisexual.

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IIRC on the search results page they track your mouse movements and which links you clicked on. The latter I could maybe see as legitimate; the former is pretty sus.

IIRC they track your mouse movements on the search results page, and what links you click on. It's not great :/

I mean, as soon as Threads starts federating, Meta will be pulling shit-tons of data from those instances. I guess it's all publically available anyhow? But federation will definitely be handing it to them on a silver platter.

The real concern is that federating with Threads might create network effects that pull Fediverse users more and more into just using Threads, so that when it inevitably stops federating those users will essentially have been poached into yet another Facebook walled garden.

Another concern I've seen mentioned is, a lot of instances have rules against advertising. Threads exists explicitly to make money off advertising (and selling users' data). That's a conflict of interest that all but guarantees eventual rule violations.

And finally, Facebook is just a garbage corporation. They've gotten away with a lot of shit. If I ran my own instance, I'd sure as shit defederate from them.

Unfortunately it does have a karma system. It's just not as prominent.

out of curiosity, do you speak french

Holy shit, I've been spelling it "judgement" this whole time.

You know what? I'm gonna keep spelling it my way. I don't fucking care if it's "wrong". I'm over my grammar nazi arc, we grammar anarchy now.

Don't you just love the wonders of English spelling?

Petition to replace cringe ageism with based classism (against the rich)

“I use Linux as my operating system,” I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. “Actually,” he says with a grin, “Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux.” I don’t miss a beat and reply with a smirk, “I use Alpine, a distro that doesn’t include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. It’s Linux, but it’s not GNU+Linux.”

The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply: “If Windows was compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “And work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won’t be for long.”

With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man’s life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I’ve womansplained him to death.

oh wow, fucking lol

wait, isn't that for their shitty VR headset?

Unfortunately Facebook will most likely pursue their usual goals of mass user attraction, followed by user domestication and enshittification. They'll try to attract as many Fediverse users to Threads as possible, then slowly make it a shittier and shittier experience to use Threads unless you have an account there or something, and their federation will get worse and worse until they'll just split off, but this time taking a shit-ton of Fediverse people with them (who will now likely have higher switching costs due to the network effects exploited by Facebook). Not to mention that Threads will be trying to collect as much data about everyone as possible (including those who just have an account on a federated instance), and will probably try to send out ads to federated instances.

It's possible that Threads will attract more people to the Fediverse. It's at least as likely that Threads will end up pulling people from the Fediverse, and into an eventual walled garden.

Do you mean the bots they use to index stuff for their search engine? Isn't that how all modern search engines function?

Unfortunately, Threads is run by a very, very shitty corporation that sees you, me, and the rest of the fediverse as a new market to expand into (i.e. fresh meat). I wouldn't blame people from defederating with them — their incentives will clearly push them to violate many instances' rules against advertising.

on ddg's website they have a list of bangs you can search through. Maybe someone's added it already? There should also be a link where you can submit bang requests I think.

Hey, as someone who uses DuckDuckGo, they do unfortunately also engage in some cringe tracking. I think it's a bit less than Google, but honestly I don't think it makes much of a difference. They collect information about what you search for.

I might switch to Qwant or something. Not sure yet.