conciselyverbose

I give no fucks about them playing whack a mole with sites distributing their content.

But fuck those pieces of shit for harassing devs of a fucking reader app.

For the privilege of paying $45/month for video classes?

You already can't. You can't close Pandora's box.

Adding labels just creates a false sense of security.

That's not the discussion.

It's whether the literal only possible way for a small creator to theoretically make successful content should be allowed to control the entirety of video content on the planet with their censorship.

Making content that you want people to watch that can't go on YouTube is well past irrational. It's full on delusion. Pretending that they don't have a monopoly or that literally any class of legal speech they restrict isn't automatically, in every possible situation, abuse of their monopoly position is nonsense.

There is no attitude capable of making it possible to get videos actually distributed anywhere but YouTube. It cannot be done. You're better off getting your investment in cash and lighting it on fire.

I think this is a good thing.

Pictures/video without verified provenance have not constituted legitimate evidence for anything with meaningful stakes for several years. Perfect fakes have been possible at the level of serious actors already.

Putting it in the hands of everyone brings awareness that pictures aren't evidence, lowering their impact over time. Not being possible for anyone would be great, but that isn't and hasn't been reality for a while.

It's fundamentally not possible.

At some point fakes will be pixel perfect indistinguishable.

Because Facebook hasn't done anything yet.

Blocking Facebook as a user is not good enough. Any server that connects to them legitimizes them and is not acceptable behavior.

It absolute is not a conspiracy, and most people unwilling to participate in any server that interacts with Facebook in any way are doing so exactly because they understand the technology and Facebook's history. Literally everything Facebook has ever touched turned to dogshit. "I won't participate in a platform that doesn't completely block Facebook" is not the naive, uninformed position. (That's using Facebook and their other platforms.) It's the people who recognize how pure fucking evil Facebook is.

Go to some junk instance that's willing to federate if you want.

Federating with Threads makes an instance unacceptable as far as most of us are concerned. Their mere existence is malignant.

It's not "because we're not fiddling" with anything.

It's because Windows' scheduler is objectively broken and not scheduling workloads correctly.

People don't really want self directed funds.

One of the biggest ways employers have managed to get people to save properly for retirement was making it opt out and automatically ramping up the withdrawal rate over time. You still don't have to do so, but most people can't be bothered thinking about retirement in any way.

Defaults are a powerful thing.

Fuck monopolies, but the entire premise of a link tax completely breaks the internet.

"": + anything in spotlight.

It crashes springboard and reloads in about half a second.