Notices by mercurial yapper (writeblankspace@shonk.social)

@BeAware@social.beaware.live @stefan@stefanbohacek.online it's not just about Meta being horrible, but also about Meta being horrible and awfully lax with their moderation

yeah, you've got 200+ million users. Some might be okay. But some might have 'opinions' that are really hurtful — and were they on any other Fedi instance, that instance would be Fediblocked if they did not take action, or the instance moderates the user appropriately

also, didn't Meta have something about "by interacting with our users you agree to let us your your content for whatever" or something like that? I understand why one would want to ensure users don't randomly interact with some random account on their timeline, only for that account to be a Threads account and for info to be unknowingly and unwillingly collected

TL;DR, treat Meta like you would any other Fedi instance

@MeowKittyWow@peoplemaking.games @AnthonyJK@mastodon.redgarterclub.com OHHHHHHH omg thank you for this

I was confused why nobody was actually talking about shonk.social in the comments and why shonk.social would be memed about so much.

@NeonPurpleStar@outerheaven.club @tveskov@mastodon.social they can't see, say, a person 5km away from them even if everything else around them is completely smooth land

and they can't see why that fact proves the earth is riund

(yes I did my research because it piqued my interest just now: https://calgaryvisioncentre.com/news/2017/6/23/tdgft1bsbdlm8496ov7tn73kr0ci1q I didn't read all of it but looks interesting...)

This was before my time (or I was really really young) but I miss the times when everything was a random highschool/college for-fun project that was made out of curiosity, boredom and for the good of everyone.

A social media platform for alumni to find each other. A place for sharing videos. A place to find information like a huge index for the world wide web library.

Where, oh where did we get it wrong? How did we go from that to huge corporations that no longer care about the function nor its users and only want money, and only want what's profitable, and resort to misleading and deceit.

I suppose getting money is fine. They do need some way to profit. But now they're just greedy. It's not even ethical atp but we forgive them simply because it's become normal.

At least Fedi gives me hope.