Thank you for giving me your opinion.

I will try to have an open mind about it going forward.

I am happy with loops for now though. No longer having the algorithm I don’t miss it. I don’t miss 7 ads per hour, all of them for jedi pajamas or dhubai chocolate that costs $50 per bar.

Incredibly happy I got season 3 of Twin Peaks.

You were a gem, David.

I get that it is the most organic thing you have ever felt, but that should be itself something that makes you raise an eyebrow.

A foreign language service that does not cater to you, in a language you don’t speak, and theoretically has none of your prior data is perfectly catering a social media experience tailored individually to you, and doing it on a level that no corporation who has been targeting and grooming you for 20 years has been able to achieve.

Either your comment itself is inorganic and mere advertising promising impossibilities, or you are a genuine person offering such extreme praise but we need to be skeptical here.

You aren’t saying the app is good. You are saying it is the best experience you have ever been provided, and if that is the case, this app has some explaining to do on how they achieved that.

Genuine or not, your thoughts on the matter are weird, so weird that it becomes hard to even respond to.

From the article somebody further up posted up, rednote has had about half a million downloads from app stores in the US.

TikTok’s US consumer base is about 136 million if my memory of what was said on NPR a couple mornings ago is accurate.

While I am sure that number will be growing, a lot of the feeling of everybody moving to redhorse appears to be astroturfing.

Like… they had a 50,000 person live event that sounds awfully a lot like like a recruitment seminar/product orientation.

This isn’t organic.

Meta has replaced third places, public square and community directories and then sells that access to other media.

It is a conflict of interest for the community directors themselves to profiting off things which harm the community.

To the best of my knowledge, Mastodon does not have that conflict of interest.

I don’t think we know the full extent.

He meant just sn.

Facebook at that time was not collecting social security numbers (nor are they currently, I don’t believe.

The sad fact of money is its only worth something the moment it leaves your hands.

…the US is not closer to the UK than Ireland though…

Traditional media was nothing like this. It wasn’t so granular, it couldn’t create individual realities for individual users.

The websites we use have the power to determine whether we believe in genocides or not or if we know the civics of our own community.

I deleted the app the day the day they implemented this. The podcast they started playing was a 30 minute podcast advertising mattress firm or sleep country.

Bytedance will likely start opening up enough to allow people to develop readers.

I dont think they intend to shrink their sphere of influence.

You don’t understand.

The fact that he wrote a manifesto meant he wanted to get caught. The taking the murder weapon and the manifesto to the McDonald’s was his way of saying he had gotten bored waiting for the cops to catch him. He pretty much turned himself in.

If that is truly their plan, they are dumber than we fucking figured.

If a billionaire wants to buy a swimming pool, he needs a considerable amount of other people to be able to afford swimming pools or it it becomes impossible for him to get one at all eventually.

To have a swimming pool, there needs to be an industry of specialized labororers who can manufacture and install. There has to be electricians who specialize in mixing water and electricity. There has to be people working the factories where the chlorine gets manufactured and bottled.

This is true for every product that billionaires consume. You really gotta think that these people with all this wealth would have people on the payroll pointing this out to them.

If it isn’t Nick Szabo, it is somebody who has spent years ensuring all clues point to nobody but Nick Szabo, up to and including placing a Satoshi nakamoto statue in a rural Polish town where Nick Szabo’s grandfather was born.

Let’s just look at this logically: if you had written the 30+ papers building the ideas that eventually became bitcoin, actually were building bitcoin and months away from releasing, and then had all your work stolen without credit nor citation, you wouldn’t be the world’s biggest supporter of bitcoin. You would be mad that somebody stole your work and then spent years framing you for its creation.

The first usage of the word bitcoin was even on Nick Szabo’s own blog, under a comment by the user Eddie. This leads to two outcomes: Eddie is Satoshi, or Nick’s work wasn’t stolen, bit gold is bitcoin and Nick is Satoshi.

Honesrly: tokenboomer likely is all those accounts as well.

You will notice that anytime you respond to boomer with disagreement, multiple accounts will begin flooding you, and they all brave in and out of the conversations as if they are the ones who said things said by others.

You wouldn’t expect a paid professional to be so sloppy, but on the other hand, if he was good at his job, he wouldn’t be working for Hamas.

I like Cory Doctorow.

However, I bought the novel Rabbits solely because Doctorow had a front cover blurb praising the novel.

It was downright a bad novel. Doctorow owes me $16.

It’s truly not even a mystery.

There is only one person on earth who had both the skills and experience to create bitcoin, and actually was working to create bitcoin in the months leading up to the white paper.

That person is Nick Szabo.

The communists here are doing it for free.

I assume they are on Lemmy.

Good job, guys.