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  • Reddit 100% was censoring and shadow banning any kbin or lemmy mentions.

    I wouldn’t even be surprised if reddit actively promoted or even creates negative comments. There was a precedent of people abandoning Digg so they were clearly very aware and afraid.

    At the end of the day it’s impossible to tell with these incredibly opaque networks. It’s even hard to confirm comment visibility as Reddit employs data fudging and shadow banning.

    Just another reminder that nothing any closed source social media says should be trusted, ever.






  • As someone who writes on Medium ocassionally — no.

    Medium like all other blogging platforms has a problem of incentive. The pay is too little for quality writing and there’s always a gamble on whether your article gets views as you don’t control SEO or even formatting for that matter.

    It was always filled with low effor slop because most are either:

    • practicing writing
    • building out their brand which is basically newbies
    • trying to make pennies through low effor churn

    I feel for Medium here as it does have an unsolvable problem really and AI has nothing to do with it.



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    17 days ago

    The way Apple gets away with stuff makes me feel very conspiratorial. Like, how?

    How is Apple getting a pass every time and my tin foil hat would say that they are protected by the US government. Maybe because it’s just an important corporation for the US economy but maybe it’s an important corporation for US spying too.




  • One tries to make money by gathering data and targeting advertising to people intentionally addicted to a platform. The other is, you know… a blog.

    but that’s not the issue in question. The issue is social media is introducing negative mental effects into teens life. Which we can all agree is true to some extent.

    Now, how should we address this? Should we target specific elements like algorithmic timelines and lack of anti-bullying moderation which btw are 2 things that are scientifically proven here or we prohibit teens from accessing all social media even one that has no these harmful designs?

    Do you see how this is just a shitty policy no matter how you look at it? It doesn’t prevent big corps from making a bank and does zero things to address the actual issue. It’s fucking stupid.


  • Where are you getting “corporate website”? when it would affect all social media websites including Lemmy and Mastodon or your moms blog comments.

    The idea of online social exchange of opinions or experiences is absolutely a social construct. We literally didn’t have this and now it’s part of every single person’s life in some shape. How can you just prohibit that? Imagine prohibiting phone calls lol it’s incredibly stupid.

    Again you compare this to substances and driving? You can’t be serious here? If you can’t even understand this issue then you shouldn’t be parenting let alone tell other people how to.





  • I’m really confused by this perspective and your comparsion to cigarettes is completely inadequette — you can’t compare substances to social constructs.

    If parents can’t influence their kids how is goverment powered prohibition supposed to do that?

    List one social construct that is successfully prohibited by a governing body and actually provides societal value. The only thing comes to mind is porn and take a look how fucking twisted countries where porn is supressed are. This is some north korea level of stupidity.

    This law is unprecedented and usually I’d say it should be approached with great care but clearly it’s just populist virtue signaling because it’s simply stupid and is backed by zero scientific or intelectual basis.


  • prohibition simply doesn’t work. Especialy with social constructs. Try telling teens that they shouldn’t listen to a specific music genre lol

    There are million other better ways to handle and this law just seems like a bunch of populist drivel:

    Therefore, the next step will be to push forward an age verification solution specifically for social media.

    So, now because some parents suck at parenting I should provide my ID to Instagram? How incredibly dumb is that?

    As a parent myself I’m so tired of shitty parents ruining it for everyone. Just talk with your kids, it’s really not that hard.