Corporate censorship. These companies are too powerful and tyrannical.
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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Can we do Fight Club's ending, but instead of banks, it's the corporate HQ of the 12 companies that control literally everything?
That would still be banks, but yes, all for it
Purdue, Black Rock and Vanguard own ~80% of all US stock, shortlist completed
Fuck corporate social media
Seriously threads and bluesky are false promises, the rest of the fediverse might grow and innovate slowly but it is genuine growth on genuinely community owned platforms.
Bluesky and threads are visions of the past wearing the future's clothes. They are investor backed and fundamentally and irrevocably for profit ventures.
Do not be seduced into wasting your time in stuck in the past, this is a perfect reminder we already know where it will end no matter what their precariously employed devs say.
I wouldn't lump bluesky in the same pile as threads anymore, the atprotocol is fully up and running and slowly but surely individually hosted data servers are trickling out and away to their own services.
There's even new services running completely independent of bluesky running on atproto now: https://whtwnd.com/about
There's a really good write-up on how atproto federation works here: https://whtwnd.com/alexia.bsky.cyrneko.eu/3l727v7zlis2i
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But when you report obvious fake accounts that merely exist for 5 days, follow 5000 people already and only have 3 followers themselves but a nice spammy link in their profile, they allegedly don’t violate any terms of services…
The harm to people flying in private jets is much more important than spam links. According to their own "Oversight Board".
Not sure who needs to hear this but the amount of money spent on private jets by these billionaires in 1 year could replace all our lead pipes in the USA.
And yet: https://mastodon.social/@elonjet is still up :)
Obligatory: https://grndcntrl.net/
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It blows my mind that people still use Facebook. What more can Zuckerberg do before people decide to ditch his shit?
Ordinary people use it to try and talk to their friends, while being bombarded with shit and exploited.
They also use windows that do the same thing, and probably are used to being treated like that in exchange for free stuff.
It's just we who know tech that thinks it's absurd to allow ourselves to be treated like that, by people who are awful and rich.
Deleted mine a long time ago and life got so much better. I still have friends that use it religiously and are on it every day like their life depends on it... Crazy.
Given the risk of physical harm to individuals
Their private security details aren't enough?
Not to mention the data is publicly accessible.
Those rich fuckers can fly commercial like the rest of us. Upgrade to first and business class and suck it up.
I just took an 80min flight recently. For shits I looked at the first class upgrade option. It cost three times as much as my coach ticket. I hate flying, and I think airplanes are cramped and very uncomfortable, but I can't imagine choosing to have a tiny bit bigger seat for an 80min flight over buying two other people tickets or supporting a charity or just buying extra drugs that week. The amount of disposable income or pathological obsession with status to flagrantly make the choice to buy a first class ticket astounds me.
I'd have to guess a lot of the time is companies eating the cost for their people to fly first class rather then it being common for a rando looking to take a flight booking first class
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the accounts should be used to inform where the tracking information is collected to instead of being the sole container for it. Never trust that anything you do is safe on corporate servers
Damn look at these parasites demanding privacy!
Hmmmm
Now I really want to know where all of these people are going that they have to hide it from the rest of the world.