• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    It is fine to have casual knowledge of or a hunch about something, but far better to have the research and analysis to prove it.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      9 months ago

      Well, the Fediverse isn’t any more private, but at least it doesn’t care much about your data. That said, any company could come and harvest all of that data if it wanted since it’s open.

      The Fediverse isn’t the final step here.

      • cjriebe@lemmy.riebe.cloud
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        9 months ago

        I understand that, but it’s more about the targeted advertisements, sponsored posts, etc. Just give me my goddamn content and leave me alone LOL

  • Prox@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    That’s literally the sales pitch to investors, and has been for decades.

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      9 months ago

      Getting as much done as they can before the election in case Trump wins, I think

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      9 months ago

      The new-ish Federal Trade Commission head has been making a push to work on quite a few projects for the past couple of years. They have a very small resources and man-power compared to the war chests of multibillion dollar companies, but recently, somehow managed to bring charges against Google as a monopoly. This in my opinion is a good thing. I consider myself a social liberal and a fiscal conservative. I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar. I support her endeavors working for the interests of the majority of people and not those few with the most money.

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        I don’t like how our government seems to take the money of these companies and turn a blind eye as they do what they want in pursuit of the almighty dollar.

        What country do you live in?

        Because in the US, the government gives money to corpos. That’s how the entire regime works lol

        Politicians take donations sure but that’s not the government. That’s private regime whores living off corporate cash while handing out state aid Boeing intel and tech companies among many other parasites.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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    9 months ago

    So this is why I switched to the fediverse. But to be honest, I have no idea if someone does things like that here or not. All my posts are public to everyone and machine readable. The only thing which would prevent someone of survailing users on the fediverse is it’s very small scale. It is probably just not worth the effort.