The much, much bigger issue is people just flocking to where there’s the capital for marketing. The feature sets/philosophy could be precisely 1:1 swapped and people would still end up on the platform with all of the money to throw around.

What, the VC funded tech firm makes lots of noise about not being evil before eventually just becoming evil yet again pattern? Yeah I don’t like it either.

News corp. They’re the single most effective driver of fascist influence in the 21st century among the politically passive part of the population. Everything that all these other companies do is underpinned by News Corp outlets like Fox, The Sun, etc. justifying, equivocating, scapegoating and propagandising.

They’re all going to bluesky because for some reason as soon as social media gets involved, the wonderful human ability to pattern match just gets switched off.

South Korea should try out the people’s razor on this one, just to make sure execution is still bad.

Part of the problem is that highly partisan rightwingers were imposed on the BBC by the Conservatives. It speaks to Keir Starmer’s mortal weakness that he has not sought to replace them with unbiased figures.

In other words, the BBC behaves much like Starmer’s government: appeasing critics on the right and far right, while suppressing the left.

I don’t think Starmer has much of a “mortal weakness” here, he’s just right wing and winning.

The slow way, liberal incrementalism, is seemingly getting us authoritarianism not just in the US but in much of Europe as well. Not to mention the liberal incrementalists broadly seem to have stopped bothering to, you know, increment.

The billionaires are in a cartel with Trump and Musk at the helm.

I think there’s a bit of a political drive to try to label chronic conditions as “lifestyle” diseases tbh, hence the loose definitions.

MAGA and getting “no regerts” tattoos, name a more iconic duo

I’m trying to generally distance myself from all the VC sprouted billionaire former ‘startups’. They’re a disease. Those smug faces as they turn what they promised to be ‘good’ into a company that develops autonomous killing machines. All those smug bastards at the inauguration, happily paying the deposit to cash in on fascism. Unfortunately Google out of all of them has the deepest claws in me I think, android phone (Apple is in the same club/cartel imo so not much help), gmail, etc.

I think for marketing purposes you could have a hot list of marketing terms (presumably these would be scarce so sold to high bidding companies) and match against those which would be a sort of middle ground between the general purpose processing and a single wake word.

You could do it in a cheap (in terms of energy) and sloppy way where it only needs to be correct most of the time of the time to have a net positive impact on ad targeting when reconciled with other user data.

Ah, one of the eagar faces at the Trump inauguration is silently stealing screenshots of peoples’ phones. What could possibly go wrong? Glad I binned that stupid platform.

It’s totally reasonable for them to enforce their level of anti-bigotry protections to protect their safe space instance. It’s not power tripping. Besides feddit.uk is full of full time labour centrist true believers and/or probable astroturfers and is is largely low value subreddit copy paste for their most substantial communities.

Damn. I don’t want to engage with them either now. Are there any better UK instances? I’m getting sick and tired of the Starmer apologetics and general meltery on there anyway.

Unfortunately our glorious PM only does that to people advocating for changes which might risk benefiting working people.

Thank you!

Post surgery sick leave. My body is still a bit fucked but it’s also the most time off I’ve had in one go in years.

Ah that’s a good one, do you know any more?

Maybe so but at some point Trump is going to tell Starmer to jump on climate change.