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The nice thing is you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to.
by BoredPositron 2y ago
The nice thing is you don’t have to participate if you don’t want to.
- balamatom 2y agoYeah, just like you don't have to own a smartphone if you don't want to.
- aleph_minus_one 2y agoI know quite some people who do by conscious decision not own a smartphone considering these are surveillance bugs with an inbuilt phone function, for which you even have to pay.
- markhahn 2y agonot to be persnickety, but you don't have to pay for cellular service. the trackability you're criticizing is not inherent to the smartphone concept.
- balamatom 2y agoThe trackability is not inherent to the cellular service, but to the sensor hardware, operating system, and business model.
- akimbostrawman 2y agoCellular service is very much inherently trackable. See cellular triangulation.
- wizzwizz4 2y agoAnd their lives are made unnecessarily difficult.
- BoredPositron 2y agoWat den eenen sin Uhl, is den annern sin Nachtigall.
- balamatom 2y agoЗа кокошка няма прошка, за милиони няма закони!
- alex1138 2y agoNot strictly accurate if a) they create shadow profiles b) it's almost impossible to permanently delete an account c) the site puts a login wall on every single page forcing you to have an account to access anything
- fc417fc802 2y agoYou left out d) required for some important task.
- alex1138 2y agoYeah like connecting with people you'd like to reach (which Facebook doesn't do a terribly good job of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712) but people here seem to think email/calling is the only acceptable form of social media (but what if you don't have someone's contact info? well, that gets justified as "nobody needs to connect with long lost contacts")
- BoredPositron 2y agoIf you're not banned, why not simply create an account and message them properly? If following the platform's basic guidelines feels like too much effort, perhaps the communication wasn't that important to begin with. The barrier to entry is quite low (for a human) and you don’t even need to connect the account in anyway to your other online personas. The biggest benefit would also be that YOU can be found when people want to connect with you…
- fc417fc802 2y ago"Banned", "too much effort", these are straw men. Real name systems (for routine discourse) are bad. Walled gardens are bad. I should not need to forsake my privacy unless I wish to or alternatively a material need exists. Don't need to connect the account? What sort of joke is that? They require you to use your government recognized name.