More than one thing can be true.

I’m just not seeing the goodwill to society from the current billionaires. They’re all ratfucks but at least of yesteryear they tossed us a bone or two.

Where are the Carnegie types to build public infrastructure? Y’know, improve the lives of the rest of society that gave them enough power to amass such wealth.

There’s no such thing as a “self-made billionaire”, it’s made off the exploitation of the folks below. Everyone has a great idea or two, but getting lucky isn’t just being “God’s chosen one” (or whatever nonsense people use to deflect that billionaires existence is unjust). It’s full out exploitation in the highest order, but because they toss some breadcrumbs we do the dance for them.

If there are 9 people sitting at a table, and one Nazi sits down. If no one gets up from the table there are now 10 Nazi’s sitting at that table.

When you onboard onto Reddit it asks interests and points users to subreddits. I don’t think anything like that exists on Lemmy, but could be a good thing for the less tech inclined.

This guy fucks for sure

Idk if this will format on Lemmy but here ya go bud.

Edit: works on web not on app on iOS (Mlem)

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https://youtu.be/j6eFNRKEROw

1. download meme image
2. propagate
3. ???
4. profit!

Perpetuate!

mfw I’m doing a ketamine and realize my psychedelic trip is just part of a finite recess that infinitely everything is interconnected and I’m just a small cog in that machine:

Social media corporations brought the mainstream to the internet in the worst possible way

Eloquently said.

A decent chunk of local businesses don’t have a web presence besides Meta products. Meta would love to be “the internet”, they had a project in early 2010’s to give free “internet” in developing countries. The catch, the internet received was restricted to Facebook. It was called out by net neutrality advocates as being very anticompetitive and India rejected the project in 2016. Even a decade ago the zucc had been using underhanded tactics to put as many eyes on his propaganda machines.

Why should some jackass amass as much wealth as a nation state by siphoning pennies from every other interaction on the planet?

Link to BBC article about India rejecting free internet below.

India blocks Zuckerberg’s free net app Published

• 8 February 2016

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35522899

… launched in 2013 as Internet.org and was offered in 36 countries - had brought more than 19 million people online …

No hablas Espangol

That’s fair, everyone has different objectives with their OpSec. But it’s a good reminder for those who might click the link that if they consider trackers bad they can opt out. The first thing in deciding if you care is understanding what’s in your risk profile. If you’ve saved your password for Lemmy to Chrome then yes, Google likely knows.

Even without direct trackers linking accounts there’s browser fingerprinting and other such nonsense to get a good idea who’s who. Just food for thought, not just for you, but for anyone else who stumbles upon this post.

“The best time to join the fediverse is 10 years ago, second best time is today.”

• Wayne Gretzky
• Michael Scott

Mamdani.

swoon!

Pretty good!

One small suggestion though. Remember to remove everything after the “?” when sharing links to YouTube or other platforms. The “is” (sometimes “si”, sometimes something else) is a server side tracker. When you generated that link on YT, it saved the random letters behind ‘is=‘ to a table in a database associated with your account. Now anyone you share that link with, who clicks on it will be linked to your profile behind the scenes in the data machine of Google.

Additionally, when Google is scraping Lemmy or FB or anywhere else you drop that link it can be loosely related to your YT account. So in theory if no one else shared your link with the sharing code, it’s a strong signal to Google that werecat@lemmy.world is the same as the account that generated the tracking code.

Hopefully that makes sense, it’s something I try and spread far and wide because it’s not well known.

For others looking for a link without the tracker, it’s here for your convenience https://youtu.be/DlTNN0gvkLM

• !fediverse@lemmy.world

This seems to fit the bill quite nicely, the other fediverse community content seems like there’s not much discussion.

admins to only allow new accounts if the server costs are already being covered by donations and have it auto close account creation, if not.

That’s an interesting take, when server costs are met then the gate is open. I’d suggest not an “auto close account creation”, but maybe allow users an option to go around the gate by paying? Still feels like it’d detract from growth. Like if sh.itjust.works was underfunded and gated account creation caused a paywall, users could simply make an account on lemmy.ca for example.

To your point about overages, maybe there would be someway to monitor it as a community in a dashboard? Maybe each instance could pair with a non-profit organization to donate to on the communities behalf? Then if we see an instance’s surpluses are going to EFF (or some other cause a user aligns with), it could give someone an idea on which instance to create an account on. I honestly just picked sh.itjust.works cause the domain and it’s Canadian. But knowing they are supporting something would add an extra level of cool.