Sometimes I have to wonder, what’s it going to take to make people leave X?
I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it’s gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.
It’s not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.
Now I have to remove LinkedIn - this a good reason! It over reduces my cyber footprint overall. I only have it bc it’s required for a places that I’ve applied about 60-70%.
They did me the favor of removing my account when they asked for my ID “to protect my identity”.
Sound phake! I’m over skeptical of the new real id thing overall so I won’t be bothering with it until the last moment.
It’s a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.
4 years?! Is this purgatory?
Sometimes I wonder what it will take to get people using the web less.
Getting them addicted to something more addictive, like meth.
No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.
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My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you’re dumb enough, there’s also a “feature” to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you’re near it.
It’s absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.
You can’t make this stuff up.
A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And – what?!? – they’re using said data inappropriately?
Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.
Israel shares all their spyware data with the US and UK. Basically they let Israel do all the illegal stuff as a legal (actually illegal but they don’t care) loophole.
I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.
Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.
Not part of 5 eyes?
Real people are still on X? I thought it was mainly bots and twats now
@dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX
Where is your NPOV now NATOpedia?
Good excuse to get editing :)
I have brought NPOV back to several pages that clearly had been polished up by marketing firms. Thankless work, but always rewarding to destroy some astroturfing company’s work
Even on Lemmy people think Wikipedia isn’t shit.
It can’t be trusted.It wildly depends on the articles/topic, but yes, it’s generally not trustworthy. Especially anything politics or corporate, but sometimes articles on objective topics can have issues.
Said someone who’s never tried to edit an article. They watch that shit like a hawk and require sources for everything, if not they’ll revert your changes.
That’s garbage.
There have been plenty instances where articles were manipulated.Said someone who’s never tried to edit an article.
I tried to edit an article that contained blatant falsehood, my change instantly got reverted, I got banned, and a group of editors tried to dox me. You’re right that they watch it like a hawk, but only to make sure nobody corrects their bullshit.
They call me John but I go by Chang I guess.
The Israeli government is a terrorist state.
US backed terrorist organisation
Fuck Israel.
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Hear me out: probably not a great idea to even throw your name into trends
That is a scary organization to exists.
These people do know that is X is Elon Musk’s personal child porn/shit posting/data scraping website right?
Why not pay and give your docs to Encyclopedia Dramatica too?
