It isn’t if you are privileged, the same as the US

It just scrapes for data, you can’t log in, post, or comment so no need to use the API

If he think Reddit hates his conservative views, he’d explode if he came here

If we left it up to our government, that’d probably be what happens

The EU seems to be handling it fine, the point is not targeting specific sites but targeting user hostile behaviors against citizens

TikTok being banned is good. Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter should be banned as well. Closed, source, manipulative and harmful algorithms should be banned and these apps all use dark patterns in their design.

The fediverse and open social networks where the algorithms are open source and well understood and the user is allowed to choose their own algorithms is the only safe way to use social media.

Broccoli and brussel sprouts for me

It is political, every other Democrat doesn’t want to be punished by voters for being the party that banned tik tok.

They don’t want Trump to get the credit for overturning the ban. So. Ow they are trying to rush it so that Biden can try to take credit.

I mean you have to subscribe to a feed to be able to see it and I don’t see how RSS could sync a feed you don’t even know about. I suppose if someone started a platform that everyone used to sync their feeds then people could uncover content from the RSS feeds of other users but that seems to take the really simple out of really simple sync (RSS)

The problem isn’t the algorithm just because it’s an algorithm, even chronological sort is technically an algoritim.

The problem is closed source algorithms with no user choice that implement dark patterns and other addictive and psychologically abusive tactics to make users engage with their app as much as possible

They are two of the larger instances so you will be negatively impacting your own experience.

To answer original question, it’s my understanding that hexbear was a refuge place for elchapotraphouse when it was banned from Reddit for harassment. So many users are trolls that intentionally antagonize anyone outside their instance that isn’t left enough. Lemmy.world almost immediately defederated from them so I haven’t seen a hexbear user in like year and a half. You won’t miss them.

Some people also don’t like lemmy.ml because of the admins and some of the more antagonistic users but for the most part, I find most people on .ml perfectly agreeable of the topic isn’t politics. I would just block users and communities from that instance as they come up if you don’t like them

Why not ban both if we are concerned about the harms of algorithmic content?

China subsidizes their infrastructure and industries which is why they are able to produce cheaper than domestic.

There really isn’t a good answer in these kind of trade wars other than outright banning, tariffs, or heavy subsidies to your own industry.

In these cases countries are determining national security concerns outweigh environmental concerns. Not saying it’s right or wrong but that’s where we are

I think we can agree that modifying a cookie such as that Honey does to steal commissions and blocking a cookie in its entirety as a security or privacy measure are material different actions.

So I find the concerns that Honey getting sued and having to pay damages could open up ad blockers to getting sued overblown.

You can quantify damages equal to the amount of commissions paid on purchases actually made in Honey’s case (and on the consumer side with the difference in discounts provided by Honey withholding the best coupons it claims to provide)

You can’t quantify damages made by blocking ads or tracking cookies as advertisement and tracking doesn’t directly translate to sales

There is no reason why the complaint can’t be specific to modifying just attribution and commission cookies. And ad blockers mostly work by blackholing DNS request to ad servers and manually editing DOM and removing elements that load content from known ad services. If an ad blocking extension modifies cookies it’s typically just blocking them entirely (something every browser has built in) not editing them.

Jrose11 for mostly gen 1 and 2 solo runs of pokemon games (although he covers most of the series as well)

I’m a big fan of his series covering the entire NES and GB libraries on YouTube as well as retronauts!

Conover is on Mastodon as well at @[email protected]

Wow, I knew Zuckerberg was a jerk and I knew he was right wing. But I didn’t think he was one of those rightwing immature edgelord jerks on the level of 4chan posters