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Thank fuck I literally use none of those services.
I wish WhatsApp wasn’t the main form of communication in my area of the world.
That’s the only one I’m on and it’s because I could not convince anyone around me to just use texts or download signal
Yes you should break yourself from all of the US and Israeli tech stack. They cannot be trusted.
It’s hard to get away from the hardware companies through. I’m all AMD because they’re a little less evil, but they’re in the same AI bubble and also currently doing little in terms of innovation since they already have the performance advantage
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Neither do I, I only use it for sending and recieving messages. I don’t think anyone uses the AI bullshit that was added to it.
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It was so much better when the search bar was just for contacts or chat messages instead of all the genuinely useless terms
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The dumb thing is that Meta owns Instagram and WhatsApp, so if every one of their apps have these features what’s the point of downloading more than one of them?
EDIT: I misread telegram as Instagram lmao, but either way there’s no point in using any of them
Somebody needs to jailbreak WhatsApp interoperability. Especially now that their ‘encryption’ has been demonstrated to be a farce.
I didn’t try it but this claims to have done it: https://www.beeper.com/
Oh, I wonder if this is that teenaged guy that Apple tried to sue.
I don’t either. Too bad 99.9% of the rest of the people do.
Too bad 99.9% of the rest of the people do.
This is the problem.
Good job lemmings, pat on the back for separating yourself from all this bullshit. Unfortunately, the thousands of us here don’t have super mega voting power…
ur still affected by how these influence the news cycle and general societal conversation
Ok, and? Why is everyone up my ass because I’m happy I don’t support these elites? Sure the rest of the sheep are grazing in the pasture. How is that my problem? It’s not like I don’t talk to those in my circle. I can lead a sheep to water but I can’t make them drink.
Right? It’s getting hard to talk to people nowadays because everyone seems brainwashed.
But you can’t get them out of it. Asking people to not check those feeds every day is like asking them to go without water.
It’s embarrassing how dependant folks have become with technology and social media. I’m not immune myself, but I’ll drop anything that goes against my values.
I keep trying to relate this to when we started mass-producing books. It must have been the same. We integrated that tech and got better.
I am not personally a fan right now.
Lol. Lmao even. You think shaping your habits will protect you. You can’t personal responsibility your way out of this.
If you can’t solve the problem 100%, why even bother.
Just vote for trump. It’s all the same.
I don’t think that’s the criticism, rather we fixing the problem at the wrong end of things. We can’t fix society by stressing personal responsibility, we need a different tactic.
If the tactic doesn’t benefit the person doing it at all, then they won’t do it.
Sure, and that’s why I don’t bother telling people their voting tactics are wrong.
It has little to do with protection and more to do with keeping a clean conscience. I won’t support evil.
I mean, congrats? Kind of irrelevant to the discussion here, then.
“Oligarchy becomes smaller and more powerful” - article
“Good thing they don’t get my money via direct means” - you
Lol, short of going out and killing these bastards there isn’t much else I can do other than to stop supporting these services. I have to hope if enough folks like me stop using these services they will fail. There is a point where it only takes one straw to break the camels back.
That’s basing your imagination that we’re a meritocracy. There’s meaning behind the saying “failing upwards”. I don’t know how to counteract it either, but their success comes from failure. Let alone the Island stuff.
What are you even talking about? I didn’t say shit about meritocracy or failing upwards. I’m talking about not supporting those services and platforms that support evil.
Right, and I’m trying to explain to you that it’s not what they base their success on. I know you mean well, but we’re not a meritocracy and they do fail upwards.
People are talking about it, but the conversations are muffled or muted by those same billionaires.
Large no kings rallies should have had massive coverage, but were actively ignored by the news who frequently report on a handful of protestors who are promoting hate. Heck, with all of the pro Trump bullshit being a tidal wave of shit it just drowns out everything else so trying to actively discuss problems anywhere but niche communities is like trying to have a conversation in the middle of the dance floor at a rave.
Lol, posted on “X”
Exactly where people who need to read this message are. What’s your point?
With a paid blue verification check mark, no less.
This was a problem decades before Trump took office, and the exact same problem will remain after he’s gone.
Those corporations are “donating” (bribing) every election cycle for a reason, and it’s not charity.
Each candidate has a billion dollars, win or lose… that we know of. Our reps and their entire families are millionaires. Bribery is blatant and legal.
See Super PACs and Citizens United for further details.
“Lobbying”
The percentage of sociopaths involved with creating a society should never be greater than zero.
Financial obesity is an existential threat to any society that tolerates it, and needs to cease being celebrated, rewarded, and positioned as an aspirational goal.
Corporations are the only ‘persons’ which should be subjected to capital punishment, but billionaires should be euthanised through taxation.
First time I’ve seen the term “financial obesity” and I love it. Thanks.
They said…on twitter/X … with a blue check…
And how dare they criticize capitalism while living in a capitalist country!
And how dare they push for better labor laws while using electronics made by child labor!
Stop with the silliness.
But twitter is a nazi platform and there are valid alternatives available.
Alao participation in capitalism might be necessary to survive, posting on Twitter isnt.
Just gonna ignore that blue mark huh. Or do you not know what that means
It means they reach a bigger audience.
You criticize society, yet you live in one.
Paying for the checkmark is out of line though.
Kind of ironic that this was posted on Twitter (X).
If these people could read…
Well it makes sense, the people who most need to think about this are people consuming the content on the sites.
Alternatively, it just would be preaching to the choir.
Delete all your accounts, and tell all your friends and family to do the same. Refuse and reject any service designed to fixate your attention. You won’t miss them, most people alive today lived in a world without their influence.
m8, Trump is copying Mussolini and Hitler, step by step. If people haven’t “woken up” by now, they won’t. They are complicit. Well armed militia and all is only strong against a bunch of children in schools… When it comes to topple tyrants, they’re cowards.
And some people will defend billionaires saying thjs is just the free market working.
We shouldn’t be integrating AI into our lives though. AI sucks.
I concur, though my job has me integrating some open ai into our software. Not much I can do besides so what they like, bit of transcription and summary.
Had a coworker give me replies from gpt for an issue . I could tell easily because I had worked with similar data for years (parsing PBX data for calls) and knew the reply had errors. Like I know I can have issues parsing our data sometimes but it was insulting he gave an AI reply. So I nicely pointed out all the errors in the reply saying I assumed it was from ai. Mean did it nicely he was trying to help (and is a really nice dude) but still I know how to google and sift as well as ai probably does. And if I get the answer I remember it due due to the work I did.
Let me know if and when they take over thelemmyclub, I’ll be out of here in a heartbeat
Last season of Westworld was about guiding people through AI to control them. Your destiny was preordained by AI.
Lol 185+ stations.
Sinclair waged this war a decade ago and won. That number needs a couple zeros on it.
Use Kimi K2 instead, feed your data to the Chinese instead of the massive nonces in the US.
