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AntifaNI wrote (edited )

LG are the same (also Instagram)

I don't want that crap on my phone at all.

Motorola don't seem to have Meta apps but they have Youtube and Youtube music Lenovo tablet also has Youtube kids which cannot be fully uninstalled even if the user doesn't have kids.

Both also come bundled with various games (Newsflash: Some folk have zero interest in gaming)

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Archaplain wrote (edited )

Several apps that bear a striking resemblance to Twitter have sprung up in recent years - such as Donald Trump's Truth Social and Mastodon.

recent years

Mastodon

Mastodon was created by Eugen Rochko and announced on Hacker News in October 2016

i dont use it but to put it in the same vein as truth social is more than a tad bit disingenuous.

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moonlune wrote (edited )

It's kind of funny to see each big web company make their own racist robot.

the problem with AI systems that rely on massive collections of web data: they will always be biased towards whatever results are more prominent in the datasets, which obviously is not always an accurate reflection of reality.

It's an interesting problem, training an AI to not be like the data you trained it on.

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__0 wrote (edited )

Another instance of global capital being indiscernible from psychological warfare.

Literally externalizing and dumping digital trauma onto the lowest bidder.

Same thing that happens with recycling and garbage and toxic waste that is cheaper just to send to another country than it is to process locally... Out of sight out of mind.

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AnarchoDoom wrote

Reply to comment by moonlune in by !deleted30

Online cannot replace irl connections. Plain and simple. Dealing with a screen is not dealing with a real person. Of course some tech makes daily life easier for a lot of disabled people, but thee tech ultimately are controlled by agencies and interests that don't give a fuck about their well-being, but more about the metadata they're freely producing for them to grab.

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moonlune wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted30 in by !deleted30

I really don't feel anything like what you're describing: most of the time tech adds to my relationships (even facebook). Granted, I mostly use messaging apps & calls & not the timeline so it could be replaced by any odd messaging app.

It's fascinating how different feelings we get from using the same tools.

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moonlune wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by !deleted30 in by !deleted30

If you had enough arthritis to not be able to get out of your home you'd probably be happy to be wired to your close ones, or to other new people & play chess online so as to be against similarly skilled players.

I'm not sure how many disabled people would trade autonomy for a community. I'd also to choose to not have my close ones smell my piss instead of having them "lovingly" clean me up because I can't do it myself.

(of course Facebook's way f doing stuff is horrible and bad and our current society is really horrible for disabled people but I can't dismiss the autonomy technology has brought to disabled.)

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moonlune wrote

Reply to comment by !deleted31767 in by !deleted30

You can have real connexions over the wired. For an extreme example on reddit there are many marriage where the groom and best man see themselves for the first time because they met and became friends over Xbox live or something.

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