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by izzydata 3y ago
Amazon is too big. It attracts too many bots and fake reviews. They also have no incentive to remove fake positive removes as it is a conflict of interest for them to sell as many books as possible.
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by izzydata 3y ago
I have no doubt that a lot of the economy is built on bullshit jobs, but most people do at least "some" work. It might not be necessary for our survival, but I'd like to think human society has moved beyond that. Still, I&#x2
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by izzydata 3y ago
I think it is finally time to de-google my digital footprint.
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by izzydata 3y ago
On principle I don't think they should. Twitter intentionally degraded an existing service. I don't think they should even spend a single dollar as they have proven themselves unreliable with changing things on a whim. It's n
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by izzydata 3y ago
So clearly Oppenheimer and then Barbie right? I'm assuming Barbie is some kind of post-apocalypse hypnosis coping method of a society.
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by izzydata 3y ago
If I had to guess it is because it is already developed, in a format people can already understand and is dynamically configurable to do what they want now and could change in the future.
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by izzydata 3y ago
Honestly I think this makes a lot more sense than Twitter. It always felt wrong to me that Twitter was used for anything resembling official communication. Whether it be a local news network, fire station, local government or the president
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by izzydata 3y ago
Wouldn't a free market eventually lead to all these insurance companies combining into 1-2 even more mega insurance companies until there is no competition again? At least if all their profits are capped there is no reason to merge.
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by izzydata 3y ago
Aren't there laws that require insurance companies and utility companies to have specific margins? They could in theory just print infinite money so they need to be reigned in by governments.
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by izzydata 3y ago
What does that say about how easy it is to sign up in the first place? I assume they were ok with that.
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by izzydata 3y ago
I can understand not exactly lining up, but considering how large the country is and how Beijing is so far east it seems like people in the west would have the sun rise at 2:00 or the sunsetting at 14:00. I don't know this for certain
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by izzydata 3y ago
I'm more perplexed that China decided it should only have 1 timezone. It also decided that timezone should be from the perspective of the eastern coast. When does the sun rise and fall for the western most people?
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by izzydata 3y ago
Why do so many able bodied individuals pay at minimum twice as much for food to brought to them? I could understand a market need for the elderly or disabled, but why would a perfectly healthy 20 year old find this to be a reasonable cost t
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by izzydata 3y ago
Will Bluesky have ads and sell your user data?
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by izzydata 3y ago
I really hope in the near future there is some shift in the advertising business where they realize the ridiculous amounts of money they are lighting on fire and decimates the ad driven internet as we know it.
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by izzydata 3y ago
You can't pay for celebrities and attract businesses without ads and data harvesting. The point is that the fediverse is not a for profit business.
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by izzydata 3y ago
Their goal is be compatible with the old fediverse, gain all the users by showing all the instances content, then become incompatible with the old fediverse and kill it. Then at that point there is no more fediverse because Threads by itsel
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by izzydata 3y ago
I don't think the fediverse failed. I think the average joe doesn't sign up for Mastodon and Kbin because it doesn't have celebrities, corporations, ads and data harvesting. Celebrities and corporations needs to be paid, at l
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by izzydata 3y ago
It's been working just fine for years. The people don't want a platform they have to genuinely participate in. They want celebrities, corporations and their data to be stolen and sold to see it as a successful platform for mindles
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by izzydata 3y ago
Those two things are very contradictory. Threads taking off is the death of the fediverse in the long run.
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by izzydata 3y ago
They basically want you to sign the rights to your life away in the form of data collection. That seems to be their business model here so I don't think they are going to take a step back. The sad part is the average person will likely
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by izzydata 3y ago
Even a lot of regular people these days are caught up in the addiction of getting the maximum amount of engagement out of everything they post online. They don't want to talk to people. They want thousands of strangers to praise them.
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by izzydata 3y ago
So it is like Mastodon, but they steal all your data so they can sell it and comes with ads? Are people in some kind of Stockholm syndrome with getting their data harvested by mega corporations?
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by izzydata 3y ago
Or maybe they are so good that there is simply no evidence of their hacking.
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by izzydata 3y ago
Does WeChat not count? It seems like the biggest government controlled social media on the planet. Maybe the biggest social media on the planet period.
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by izzydata 3y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0GvSM_HevY This needs to be translated. This is the depiction of the "human" flag computer in the recent Tencent adaptation plus some kind of explanation of how it relates to moder
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by izzydata 3y ago
But email is a federated system itself. Complaining about having to sign up for a particular instance is like complaining you have to sign up to a particular email provider and not all of email.
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by izzydata 3y ago
I remember having a .swf of this 20+ years ago. I wonder if I still have that somewhere on my computer.
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by izzydata 3y ago
I might join this. I've been pretty invested in trying out various federated websites.
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by izzydata 3y ago
It ends too soon. The funniest part is when they talk about the northern hemisphere being on top and then them putting it on the bottom and her saying it is freaking her out.

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