Brewchin

I assume all the bot farms are paying for the privilege.

So, the Internet of Shit is not just a euphemism now. Great…

To add to what others have replied, Amazon have an institutional belief that everyone who makes it through the Loop is better than 50% of existing staff.

It could be post-hoc rationalising of back-loaded share vesting, hire-to-fire, and their other many practices, but that’s the position. With that kind of thinking, it makes this behaviour, including it’s consequences, a no-brainer win:win to them.

Netiquette

Now there’s a term I’ve not seen in many years.

And dates both of us, I expect… 😄

Agree. It’s definitely popcorn hour.

You appear not to have heard of Google Glass.

Hadn’t seen that before. Love it. 😄

This seems a reach. Podcasting (MP3 files distributed by an RSS feed) is platform agnostic.

To me, claiming that any platform is “killing” any demographic’s podcasting capability is screaming “I know absolutely nothing about podcasts”.

YMMV. 🤷🏽‍♂️

I think it’s the usual “it hasn’t impacted me personally, so how bad can it be” maintaining the status quo at all costs.

Once something happens that they care about, they’ll be on the Fediverse that day crowing loudly about how awful Xitter has suddenly become…

Parts of the Internet now only searchable on specific sites now? What next - charging a monthly subscription to use Google?

This needs to be regulated before the Internet becomes like streaming TV.

It is.

I’m sure you’ll be shocked to learn that their consistent advice was to call them so they could take it away to examine instead…

Here we go again.

I dealt with a few CSAM cases in previous jobs and there’s an oddity in UK law: if you even suspect there’s a CSA image - including regular nudes of someone under the age of consent - on a device, it is illegal for you to check.

By opening the image to determine what it is, you are prosecutable. (Not sure if anything has changed since, as this was nearly 10 years ago).

There are many, far better, ways to deal with this issue that don’t destroy relationships and futures.

One business dying is not the death of a media type, FFS.

I once wished for this, especially back in the days when there were next to no laws regarding it, but there’s zero chance as the money and attention has moved to it. There’s political capital in demonising online discourse.

s/country/world/: FTFY

“Think of the children” is somehow the gotcha for so many of the hard-of-thinking amongst us.

“This is illegal!”

Bung in the post

“This is legal… for a fee!”

If the punishment is a fine, it is targeted at those who can’t afford the brib—I mean fee.

I think this really is the best solution to news sites.

I self-host FreshRSS, make good use of its filters, and I can chew through headlines and articles in no time using the web view on a PC or mobile web.

Think of the problem being solved. The Fediverse solves multiple problems, but most notably ensuring that our contributions won’t be paywalled by some corporate grifter. The post and comment data itself is free and open, subject only to TOS and regional legislation.

If you consider your conversations valuable, stick with something like secure messaging application groups. And then hope nobody in that group does what you imagine in your second point.