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My unpopular opinion is that we should federate with threads. “Embrace extend extinguish” would depend on existing fediverse users migrating to threads. Quite frankly, I don’t see that happening. In fact, if there’s no federation, there’s more incentive to use threads to have a presence.

Embrace extend extinguish, if done on the fediverse, may cause an uptick in signups on other instances, and when extinguished, a portion of those users would leave.

With the Google Chat / XMPP thing, people were using Google Chat, had xmpp support, it was cool, then google pulled the rug so users seemingly dropped.

I don’t think Meta has enough goodwill at all to even convince it’s own users to return to it’s platforms these days. I think Bluesky is more of a risk as it claims to be decentralised to rope people in, but isn’t.

Why would they protest and make it opt in? The whole point of the fediverse is that your posts are completely public. Literally anyone and anything can scrape it, your server would hand it to them on a silver platter. That’s the point.

What’s wrong with wordpress

Just because it’s too late to delete this, doesn’t mean that you still shouldn’t

Sky ad technology can be developed out of the good of someone’s heart. Maybe to show emergency alerts quickly. Disaster warnings. But then, it gets in the wrong hands.

We could say similar stuff about the internet. I don’t think Tim Berner’s Lee had bad intentions when founding the World Wide Web. It’s a double edged sword. Same has happened with a lot. I even believe that God’s sacrifice on the cross- an act of perfect love for all humanity- has been misused to control, manipulate and abuse. The guy who created dynamite wanted it to be used for safer mining practices, not a weapon. Many things we make as humans seems to be invented for good, but used for evil

Internet advertising wasn’t initially that bad either. People would pay to have a button for their site to appear on another page. Or a video to play on a streaming site. Then someone thinks “let’s actually make more relevant ads appear. This video is about videogames, let’s show a videogame ad.” Then: “We can see what videos this user likes, so we can get an idea that they like videogames, so let’s show them videogame ads, even on other videos”. And it eventually morphed into “We can see this user visited this videogame shop 1 month ago thanks to our other maps service. Let’s show them adverts for that shop’s sale”. It’s just crazy.

Still not the technology at fault. Webapps for example are a good innovation. But it’s used for evil as well.

Not the most related, but if Instagram becomes an issue, there is an Instagram patched app which is DMs only

It’s not the technology at fault, but the advertising industry

I literally have a salvaged disk drive from an old computer connected up to a SATA adapter. Lol.

Did not expect the comic to turn into a joke about loli degeneracy

I think people with aphantasia would also have a hard time imagining what life would have looked like for them as well

The internet made having Exploding Head Syndrome much easier

Isn’t that aphantasia

I had a friend and constantly joked “picture this”

Probably a better description/label tbh

If anything then, the post is depicting antitheists, not just atheists

It’s about atheists who make atheism their whole personality.

And on lemmy in general

Even other atheists or agnostics use that caricature of reddit atheists. It’s less so atheists and more like atheists who make atheism their whole personality