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rambaroo ,

Source? All the ones I can find say they're still losing money. 800M in revenue but 940M in expenses for 2023.
https://www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/reddits-ipo-raises-questions-about-profitability-heres-how-it-makes-money-01f73f04

rambaroo ,

I don't think you understand the issue. I'm very disappointed to see that this is the top comment. This wasn't an accident. These social media companies deliberately feed people the most upsetting and extreme material they can. They're intentionally radicalizing people to make money from engagement.

They're absolutely responsible for what they've done, and it isn't "by proxy", it's extremely direct and deliberate. It's long past time that courts held them liable. What they're doing is criminal.

rambaroo ,

Reddit is the same thing. They intentionally enable and cultivate hostility and bullying there to drive up engagement.

rambaroo ,

Bullshit. There's no slippery slope here. You act like these social media companies just stumbled onto algorithms. They didn't, they designed these intentionally to drive engagement up.

Demanding that they change their algorithms to stop intentionally driving negativity and extremism isn't dystopian at all, and it's very frustrating that you think it is. If you choose to do nothing about this issue I promise you we'll be living in a fascist nation within 10 years, and it won't be an accident.

rambaroo , (edited )

There's nothing ambiguous about this. Give me a break. We're demanding that social media companies stop deliberately driving negativity and extremism to get clicks. This has fuck all to do with free speech. What they're doing isn't "free speech", it's mass manipulation, and it's very deliberate. And it isn't disclosed to users at any point, which also makes it fraudulent.

It's incredibly ironic that you're accusing people of an effort to control expression when that's literally what social media has been doing since the beginning. They're the ones trying to turn the world into a dystopia, not the other way around.

rambaroo ,

I agree, but I want to clarify. It's not about making this material harder to access. It's about not deliberately serving that material to people who weren't looking it up in the first place in order to get more clicks.

There's a huge difference between a user looking up extreme content on purpose and social media serving extreme content to unsuspecting people because the company knows it will upset them.

rambaroo ,

Literally no one suggested that end users should be arrested for jokes on the internet. Fuck off with your attempts at trying to distract from the real issue.

rambaroo ,

The article is about lawsuits. Where are you getting this idea that anyone suggested criminalizing people? Stop putting words in other people's mouths. The most that's been suggested in this thread is regulating social media algorithms, not locking people up.

Drop the melodrama and paranoia. It's getting difficult to take you seriously when you keep making shit up about other people's positions.

rambaroo , (edited )

Knowingly manipulating people into suicide is a crime and people have already been found guilty of doing it.

So the answer is obvious. If you knowingly encourage a vulnerable person to commit suicide, and your intent can be proved, you can and should be held accountable for manslaughter.

That's what social media companies are doing. They aren't loaning you extremist ideas to help you. That's a terrible analogy. They're intentionally serving extreme content to drive you into more and more upsetting spaces, while pretending that there aren't any consequences for doing so.

rambaroo , (edited )

I don't get these people. They knowingly chose to work for Meta after everything that company's done. You don't get to pretend you're the good guy anymore. They're by far the most evil big tech company on the planet and that says a fucking lot when you're up against MS, Oracle, Google and Apple

rambaroo ,

The issue is that Meta's intention is to extinguish the fediverse, not to add to it. I can't believe people are still falling for this tactic.

rambaroo ,

The fediverse just needs time to grow. It's still a very new thing. Growth will take a long time, but the fediverse needs to be an alternative to corporate social media, not integrated with and dependent on it.

It will be more difficult and damaging to defederate later when Meta starts throwing its weight around, because people will become accustomed to a much larger community. The fact that threads has many more users will give Meta disproportionate power over the fediverse, but unlike other open source/free projects, their only goals are to profit and gain more influence over society.

It's best to never federate with them, even if that means losing growth opportunities in the short term.

rambaroo ,

Being open has nothing to do with Unix. It was a proprietary OS and most of its descendants are still proprietary.

rambaroo ,

Because they knew the new teams is a buggy piece of shit and people would need an alternative

Firefox saw an increase in users (~50% in Germany and ~30% in France) following Apple’s default browser changes in the EU, as did Brave. (www.theverge.com)

Firefox spokesperson Christopher Hilton tells The Verge that the browser has seen a more than 50 percent jump in users in Germany and a nearly 30 percent increase in France....

rambaroo ,

They should be fined for this too. Deliberately obfuscating the solution isn't compliance.

rambaroo ,

That last paragraph lol. "Please feed me more info because I'm actually dumb AF and can't tell what you're talking about"

rambaroo , (edited )

Oh give me a break with this nonsense. Android has an 80% global market share, your average dipshit uses it just fine. It also "just works" and very frequently works better than iOS.

Safari is a shit tier browser when it comes to web standards and performance. It's hilarious how iOS users try so hard to justify blowing $1000 on a phone when an Android 1/2 of the price does exactly the same thing and is just as easy to use. Why can't you just enjoy your apple garbage without having this weird superiority complex?

rambaroo , (edited )

Man imagine being so far up apples butt that you actually think Safari is safer than tor

rambaroo ,

Firefox is deliberately gimped by Apple on iOS, along with every other browser. It's not a fair comparison. It's basically Safari without a ton of extra features that Mozilla was never going to be allowed to implement, which is why the EU decided Apple was being anti-competitive.

Firefox doesn't even need extensions to match Safari, but it does need gecko and all the settings it supports on other platforms.

Apple is a shady company and trusting them with your data is a big mistake.

rambaroo , (edited )

Firefox and chromium both outperform Safari in performance tests, or roughly the same depending on the setup.

It's Safari that's the third rate browser. No one would use that shit if it hadn't been forced on them and if the other vendors weren't restricted by Apple.

There's a reason Apple stopped making Safari for other platforms. It never caught on, 'cause it sucks. Safari can't compete without Apple kneecapping the competition. They're like a sports team that can't win without playing on their home turf at 10000 ft altitude where they pump in crowd noise and drug the other team's gatorade

rambaroo ,

It's not supposed to block everything. Neither does brave.

rambaroo ,

There is a health difference though https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-sweet-science-behind-honey.html

rambaroo ,

Yes you do. SAP is gigantic. You just don't hear about it because they've infected every business instead of being a consumer-oriented brand.

rambaroo ,

Bombardier is 75% owned by Airbus now. There are hardly any competitors left, even small ones

rambaroo ,

I'm sorry but as much as I hate Windows, the only updates that take this long are feature updates that happen twice a year. The vast majority of windows updates take less than a minute for me and don't require a restart. Even the ones that do finish in under 5 mins

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