especially since most other people would probably be less effort to track down.

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I have politically active friends who are supposedly privacy minded blasting their takes on facebook and complaining when they get banned for inciting violence. Most people are terrible at this and the algos the feds use probably aren’t that great. I’m more likely to get grabbed randomly.

I’ve always isolated my username from irl stuff and I don’t make any social media posts from my irl stuff. You’d have to be very interested in me specifically and I’ve always tried to be slightly less noisy then the background noise.

now your opinions are based on that bad experience instead of reality.

The fuck does this mean? How is my experience not reality? What else are my opinions suppose to be based on, if not my experience?

Reddit was showing signs of introducing a more algo based experience, so I fucked off. They would hardly be the first website I left because of shit like that.

I used reddit long before the /r/thedonald showed up. Before /r/atheism became a default sub, which was terrible for the community of that sub. It became meme infested and caused /r/trueatheism to be made for sharing stories about religion intolerance from politicians, educators and employers. At a certain point, I started wholesale blocking any major sub and power user to reclaim some usability, but the API change signaled to me it wasn’t worth the effort anymore.

A lot of lemmy users are ex reddit users and have reason they switched. I switched because it started looking more and more like twitter.

I used reddit for over a decade, but I was never willing to buy reddit gold or support it because I didn’t trust any site where I shared my political opinions to have those opinions tied with by real name or any other billing info. Same with discord. At least with lemmy, you can support it without tying it to your account.

Have you ever heard a twitter user talk about reddit? They all hate each other.

Fortnite players don’t have any backbone.

There’s an idea among foreigners that Americans use Mayo in every meal. It’s because there’s a set prop list for refrigerators in productions that every sitcom uses.

Another example is the Transatlantic accent. At most, it was just used by actors and public announcers because it was clear and easy to understand. The general public didn’t talk like that.

The US is shoes OFF most of the time. Hollywood is just filled with sociopaths.

One of their season one stories was joining in on the War On Christmas BS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lPyeRt0_FY

The games I played didn’t have ranking. It was better.

That’s been debunked. Or rather, it’s never been replicated.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/myth-hungry-judge-cautionary-tale-legal-psychology-robert-nogacki-yttwf

TempleOS did get forked.

https://github.com/Zeal-Operating-System/ZealOS

What everyone else is saying, but god do I hate the fortnite art style.

And a Mac client.

Zhang Yiming? I could only find him denying he’s Singaporean. Everything says he’s Chinese. It could be bullshit if he’s cozying up to the PRC, but that only proves my point.

it was open to both left and right contact

I don’t believe that for a minute. The CCP just had more subtle methods for suppressing content critical of them.

The useful AI is in scientific research and accounts for a fraction of a percentage of electricity used in “AI”. It’s not sexy. It’s not hip. And it’s not going to replace any workers, so the tech bros don’t care.

A lot of modern problems can actually be blamed on Freud’s nephew, Edward Bernays.

an Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, referred to in his obituary as “the father of public relations”. While credited with advancing the profession of public relations, his techniques have been criticized for manipulating public opinion, often in ways that undermined individual autonomy and democratic values.