I only ever made a Facebook account because of one club in college that never posted their meeting time and location, which changed, anywhere else and you couldn’t access it without an account. Believe me I tried. The last time I interacted with that account was a couple years ago when I Got a notification that someone tried to log into it so I went and changed the password just to make sure no one would be impersonating me. I didn’t give them more information than was necessary. I don’t know that I even uploaded a photo of myself. In the people you may know section I only ever saw one person that I actually knew, which means I was probably doing something right

The first people have to abandon the idea that they’re only allowed to use one product of a category at a time. It will not kill you to use to chat apps, it will not kill you to use two microblogging services. The second is that you need to prioritize the better one when you can. This eliminates lock-in effects which are a major moat

Me and a couple other people have ran into on the internet have thought that we need to invent “email 2”, a clean slate implementation of email that serves it’s asynchronous long form and attachment friendly function while leaving behind Decades of Cruft . We can make it into an encrypted by default and have conveniences that we never had before. It might even be an actual useful thing instead of just being the thing you sign up for accounts with to get to 2fa codes and spam from websites you buy stuff from

Honestly self hosted email can be just for self hosters talking to one another and that’s fine

They are not

At minimum run an instance for posting stuff you make. It doesn’t have to be open to randos to be useful. Pool together the tech staff, make pbs.social and all the stations and get accounts, you can follow them, boost, repost, comment under it from another instance

It was intended to cause.harm, that’s the point

This is the central problem with AI art

Hey Karl. Loved the econ book but we warned you about states bro

Someone told.me it made the problem worse. Predators would easily get into whatever age range they want and well intentioned people outside the narrow age band can’t notice or.provide help.

Maybe we shouldn’t let the roblox groomers (one got caught and he was a WV state house rep) write the laws

Is that really a plot line in car commercials these days? I’ve got to see some examples because that’s pretty crazy

Is it really that deep? It’s basically just a self-propelling thing from what I understand it’s funny because it’s funny and you say it because you say it and if you’re exposed to enough eventually you will catch the Mind virus, or at least that’s what happened to me

Having these people disengage from politics would be a good thing though so we should encourage it

Remember when this was just supposed to be about pornography? Notice how it never ever applies strictly to pornography and how that’s always just a foot in the door excuse

And scams and gamblers are useful for covering for secure transactions

I remember some schools having that, others not

I believe you (I’m 29) but why did everyone’s teacher wheel in the TV cart?

That doesn’t make any sense

That’s “put it on a flash drive, shove it up your ass, and smuggle it over the border into north korea” resolution

I don’t want churches controlling schools I pay for