That’s true of so, so many things when it comes to the US.

Though to be fair, Canada is in the same boat here, and the whole situation is frankly sad.

At the risk of sounding like an ass… why? He’s done a lot of horrible things that affected a LOT of people.

There’s a lot of “Weekend At Bernie’s” going on in Congress these days huh?

Ironically Bernie is one of the least comatose of the bunch.

It’s crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.

I’ll take my slightly good news where I can get it. I’m begging for scraps over here!

I mean yeah. Once other “financial assets” become more attractive (bonds at 5.5%?) maybe less parasitical activity will happen in the housing market. The whole thing started going off the rails when rates dropped to essentially nothing.

If you think current home owners have it bad, imagine anyone trying to get in the market now. Not only are mortgages 3X the price, but the houses are 2X the price they were before. The entire thing is completely unsustainable, and yet the Feds have done fuck all. Well no, actually they have made it worse every single step of the way (see the first time home buyers savings account for the latest idiotic idea).

Honestly surprised there isn’t more. There’s a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.

We’re going to need to do something as heavier electric vehicles become the norm. It’s actually kind of insane how many microplastica come from vehicle tires.

Ever feel like you’re just a subject in a giant plastic and forever chemical experiment? Yikes.

It’s poisoning the well though, even if I don’t see the ads. Also they will prioritize inflammatory content to drive engagement, which would affect other instances as well (you know, like they do for all their other apps/platforms).

And corporations are not good or bad, but the for profit ones… are for profit. And I’m sorry but there is no justification for a profit motive in social media.

I see no way they aren’t a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.

Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that’s not how it works… At all.

Remove corporations from social networks.

A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.

There’s just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn’t need to be there.

The idea of adding a filter between human connection that will distort the message for profit is crazy for a few reasons. Most of all because it simply doesn’t need to happen.

I mean how many of the current worldwide ills are a direct result of algorithms designed to increase engagement through ragebaiting? Disinformation is effective in no small part due to these algorithms making sure you’re made enough to engage and doom scroll. As long as you have a profit motive in these discussions this will be inevitable as far as I can see.

When you imagine a world without Fox/Twitter/Meta/Reddit/Google (not all as culpable of course) force feeding things intent on making you engage (most easily though anger/rage - thanks evolution) it’s hard not to picture a better world. The internet pre-corporate control was a very different place due to a number of factors. I would argue mostly due to a lack of profit motive on social connection.

Honestly, fuck proprietary systems and corporate control. Algos and corporations are literally destroying the world. The fediverse might be one of the most important technologies on the I internet in a very long time. This is a hill I will die on.

I’m so sick of corporate control over social media. The more I think about it the more absolutely insane it seems to me.

Hopefully kbin comparability is an option once their API is sorted

I would argue we also don’t want to be in a place where we rely on any one individual. Thankfully @ernest seems to understand that as well.

“Old Internet” - I like it!

We must go lower!

It’s so sad when apps stray from their lane and just become bloated messes. I’m looking at you too Postman…