I think this is the first time I've seen a cookies pop-up that only offered an "Allow All" option and nothing else. Accept our cookies or go away, I guess.
Reads like a scam. Obfuscatory language, outsized claims on future impact, excited opportunity advertisement, first-mover advantage, "no time for the rulebook, it's an inch thick!".
Hilarious too that he uses the word "wasteland" for something that's supposedly good. Perhaps it is a double coding where all of us normies mock it but the FOMO-blinded have their own private reading and say the rest of us are totally wrong.
Reminds me of those 419 emails where the grammar is bad, the story makes no sense, but hey there really are people who expect $10 million to fall out of the sky because they already had $10 million fall out of the sky on them.
I find it amusing that the crypto crowd has yet to recognize their echo chamber and decided to bring it with them during their big pivot to ai. Their culture is offputting
Are you implying that OP hypocritically supports Larry Ellison and Elon Musk? Are you implying that not supporting Larry Ellison and Elon Musk by not promoting their media or avoiding their products is absurd? Are you implying that people should hold Larry Ellison and Elon Musk accountable for US actions, but don't, and therefore doing it to other oligarchs is unfair or unreasonable?
I'm OK with anyone expressing their feelings on Kapersky, Ellison, Musk, their boats, and their politics. My guess is that throwaway has similar feelings about all three.
Personally I do feel that we share guilt proportional to our contributions to the ones hurting others; and I'd be interested in the calculus of their respective moral burdens. My tax payments mean I bear 0.0000001 % of the responsibility for US government behavior.
I don't think either of you have made your point very well. "It's not okay to ... appreciate ... pictures..." Isn't nonsensical, but it doesn't really convey the meaning that I'm assuming was intended (so I guess it's incoherent to some degree). That assumed meaning being that it's not okay to support people that support evil regimes. Even if that support is minimal and indirect.
Would you buy an art book by a Nazi officer in 1942? After all, the officer would only receive a very small portion of the proceeds of the book, in reality providing an infinitesimal benefit to the Nazi party itself. Would you recommend said book to people you know? After all, you wouldn't be providing even that tiny amount of material support. And after all, it's simply the creative work of another human, unrelated to the war or atrocities, not representing the interests of the Nazi party itself.
I'm sure that there are plenty of people that will show up to argue that actually, yes, they would gladly buy the book if they liked it and they would recommend it. And some will have the logical devices to show that there are no moral obligations involved. I disagree. Generally speaking, each of us only have tiny levers to pull, and we should pull them.
Alright, but what's the actual best minimalist social media?
I'm so fed up with Meta/X and while Reddit is decent, it's no way to connect with friends or carry on conversations that last longer than 2 hours.
I'm convinced that many people feel this way, and while I'm sure there will be a big "don't reinvent the wheel" response here, convincing mom, grandma, and that guy from high school to make and maintain a blog/website/rss feed is a no go in reality.
(And yes, I and my imaginary cohort are ready and willing to pay a monthly fee!!)
What is decent exists: FMS with Web of Trust moderating, on Freenet/Hyphanet. It's 4chan style anyone-can-post with non-destructive subscription-based moderation.
I think all you really need is decent universal chat. Not our current siloed ecosystem with 15 different chat systems run by 8 different companies, none compatible with each other. But a truly universal chat system: like E-mail where you can E-mail anyone no matter what their ISP, computer manufacturer or phone manufacturer is.
That would be a good step, and I see how that allows for everyone to remain in the marketing cesspool of their choosing. But as for myself, I want "posts" and a customizable feed. Without the ads and attention-maximizing bs.
If you just want a feed of stuff where you choose who to subscribe to, where you can like and comment, no ads, and that's about it... that's Mastodon. If you want more topic-organized threads, that's Lemmy. There's not many people on the fediverse relative to mainstream social media, but there's enough for it have the Craigslist/usenet/BBS feeling.
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