DigitalDilemma

Centralisation isn’t inherently bad. It has many benefits from a technical perspective. Remember that none of these social networks got popular through not offering people what they wanted, and the vast majority of people do not want biased or hate filled sites.

But centralisation does give a lot of power and influence to the few, and so far, they have all been found wanting when it comes to not being evil.

Yes.

Evidence suggests that X is a hate site run by a fascist.

Meta isn’t quite there yet, but heading in the same direction.

America is not the Western world.

It does, however, control a lot of the Western World’s media, and there’s a clear agenda to make people frightened.

It’s clear Trump wants to control all social media within the US.

1. Musk took twitter and turned it into a far right hate speech platform
2. Zuckerberg has a private meeting with Trump. Next day donates $1m to the inaugural fund. Facebook, Instagram and Threads remove fact-checking in the US and Zuckerberg. There’s some very odd fuckery afoot with left searches that are blamed on a technical glitch.
3. Tiktok is threatened with closure. They suddenly align themselves with Trump and the lights stay on.
4. Google’s boss, Sundar Pichai, is lauded and given a seat of honour at Trump’s inauguration. It’s clear there are established links there.
5. Reddit - I don’t know, but Steve Huffman has a /serious/ adoration of Elon Musk and is fond of money and power. If it’s not already in the fold, it will be soon.

I’d put money on that we’re already seeing left and anti-trump messages suppressed, and algorithms adjusted to promote division and discord - not just in the US, but globally. We’ll be seeing platforms other than the above attacked and inflitrated constantly by bots and AI. We’ll reach a point where you literally will be talking to yourself if you are against this. Your messages will just disappear to the point where you question your own reality. Shadowbanned online. Is Lemmy safe? No, not remotely. Decentralisation helps somewhat, but when the heavy guns are laying down suppressing fire from bot armies and destablising agendas - or even just being ruled illegal for some made-up reason, decentralisation doesn’t allow you to fight.

Jim Morrison said, "“Whoever controls the media controls the mind. The media is the message and the message is me.”

The aim here is obvious, and it’s not new. The method is just adjusted for modern day. And truth? Say goodbye to that sucker.

It might be accurate for one person in a hundred.

Yep, absolutely.

Although when doing so, that would make your regular PC a server. Doesn’t stop it continuing to be a regular PC as well.

You need a way to connect to your home server from the internet, yes. You can do it easily using cloudflare tunnels or using one of the many vpn systems for your phone.

Look into Syncthing if you have a home server - very easy phone backups that cost nothing.

A lot of people have made it their main income. Whether you or I think that’s good or not is irrelevent, but it does mean hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of Americans will lose their jobs as a result of this.

My TikTok feed is full of content that I find interesting and educational, from creators who work hard to make something valuable.

Exactly as I’ve found it too. My feed has a lot of old mine explores, vehicle repair, walking and similar ‘educational’ content. I’ve learned a lot of stuff - and I’m probably older than the demographic is perceived. The algorithm was extremely quick to start showing me the stuff I like - far, far better than any of the other apps.

I’m not American, but much of the content I see is made by Americans, so if this ban happens it will change what I see quite dramatically.

OP asked a question in an extremely toxic and biased way, well done for answering it reasonably.

If they don’t have an online presence and neither do their peers, how would they be cyber bullied?

Fun fact, I was called by my bullies on my parents landline and bullied when I was a kid in the 1980s.

Bullies are gonna bully - the method varies but never the motive.

The Qur’an?

1. Chip Butty
2. Crisp Sandwich made with Sandwich Spread.

So I did - thanks for the correction, edited.

I… did not know that. Thanks, TIL!

Absolutely, but when you do need it, it’s brilliant.

Sorry, I should have explained that. it’s command | yes yes|command - Eg, yes|apt-get update (Not a great example since apt-get has -y, but sometimes that fails when prompting for new keys to accept)

Edit: I got it backwards, thanks @lengau@midwest.social for the correction.

yes

The most positive command you’ll ever use.

Run it normally and it just spams ‘y’ from the keyboard. But when one of the commands above is piped to it, then it will respond with ‘y’. Not every command has a true -y to automate acceptance of prompts and that’s what this is for.

And it would require the LLM owners to admit to stealing that content.

Enjoying Factory Town at the mo, a little chill automation game with a surprising level of complexity.

Factorio 2 is also fantastic if this is a genre you enjoy.