I always wished the Dems would leverage this power a bit more. But who knows–maybe this Biden move is trying to get Trump to ban it.

Trump: Ban TikTok! Trump: Save TikTok! Biden: Ban TikTok! Biden: Save TikTok!

Huh. I’ll have to look into it more. My credentials stopped working there. Are you on matrix.sdf.org?

I have an account, but haven’t been able to connect to the server in months. Has anyone else been able to connect?

It was working for me about 10 minutes ago. Uploaded an image and saved an avatar. (I’d already made an account maybe a year ago.)

But now: 504 Gateway Time-out :(

I agree.

For sure. Any social media company that says they’re pro free speech is just posturing at best. They have full dictator control of their systems.

Yes. I don’t have any guaranteed speech rights on Facebook.

I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I’d vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.

I used to land there a lot on my searches, but ChatGPT gives higher quality results, unbelievably. Kagi+AI goes far.

I can’t, unfortunately. I still have an old Smart TV that isn’t too offensive and doesn’t show me ads. If it starts showing me ads sometime, then it’s gone. But I’m not really a videophile and I’ll watch shows on anything so I haven’t really looked at what’s better, only at what’s cheapest. I do hear it can be tricky because the commercial displays are meant to be brighter than TVs and maybe it can be hard to get them dialed in the way you want.

Last I looked, we could still buy commercial displays. They’re dumb TVs. They cost more, of course.

If the President controls the Press, and arguably Trump does, the US is in big trouble. It’s grim.

And yes, we can do all that stuff to fix it, but let’s be honest: we (as a country) are not going to.

The one thing I like with Lemmy and Mastodon (and decentralized in general) is that there’s no economic incentive to push echo chamber/inflammatory stuff. Doesn’t mean it can’t be there, of course, but at least there’s no one making more money by pushing it in my face. My feeds are tame and boring compared to those on “algorithmic” social media. And that’s how I like it. :)

https://archive.ph/19Hz4

Like with spam and its basically zero conversion rate, yes. But I’ve seems to remain clear of it in the tags I follow. So far.

I just hope that the fediverse stays small enough to remain an undesirable target for AI slop mongers.

Most of my code and some non-code is under ~/src, but I have repos scattered all around for other things.

I think the difference is scale. Before it was x% of humanity making shitting opinions where x < 100. Now it’s x% of humanity+AI, where x is, say, 100,000% of humanity. I don’t think we’re currently equipped to separate the wheat from that much chaff.

I’ve been sticking with FF proper since it has the sync stuff that’s easily used. But it sounds like it’s about time to set up a sync server and run a FF fork.