@kxk3

I stopped using Facebook-- and YouTube, in any interactive or autoplay manner-- when I noticed they were TRYING to piss me off on purpose. The Prager U ads did it. 🤢 I mean, come ON. 🙄

And that was YEARS ago.

I don't understand how it's not searingly obvious and unbearable for everyone.

@violetmadder
Glad to have you here on the good side of the internet instead<3

We just need to keep the fedi propaganda up :)
@kxk3

@MostlyTato
Yes, exactly. The same companies. They sell the disease along with the "cure".

Step 1: dismantle anything effective that would protect children (like good moderation)

Step 2: cry, "OMG think of the children!"

Step 3: push the most draconian, invasive, dystopian supervillain shit imaginable.

I've been seeing sweet teenagers being brought on the news to talk sadly about how traumatized they are, and then they'll casually say something like, "Big tech is so dangerous-- excuse me, I mean *predatory* tech," and ALL the alarm bells in my head start going off.

As if anything could ever GET that big without being inherently predatory.

As if invasive surveillance and monopolistic, authoritarian power imbalances are not the real problem, and the attitude just needs a bit of tweaking. Making it sound so common-sense and necessary. Of COURSE your computer should collect all kinds of sensitive data the actual minute you take it out of the box and turn it on-- just not, you know, in a BAD way?

I'm working on the change, hopefully I will be able to share the project this year :)

Are you by any chance knowledgeable about programming / tech or politics?