Sometimes I have to wonder, what’s it going to take to make people leave X?
I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it’s gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.
It’s not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.
k I need an alternative to paypal now :(
Paypal is pretty much the ground zero of evil in the world.
Thiel himself said 4/6 of the founders were making bombs back in HS.
It’s a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.
Sometimes I wonder what it will take to get people using the web less.
Getting them addicted to something more addictive, like meth.
4 years?! Is this purgatory?
No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.
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e: Oh, you don’t like it when the ‘Well, acktually’ shoe is on the other foot, 'eh?
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im not the one who downvoted, i upvoted this
My bad, social media reflexes are hard to break :)
My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you’re dumb enough, there’s also a “feature” to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you’re near it.
It’s absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.
You can’t make this stuff up.
A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And – what?!? – they’re using said data inappropriately?
Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.
I have yet to read this book, but The Palestine Laboratory is supposed to outline how a lot of the surveillance and weaponry used today are first developed and tested in Israel to aid the occupation, then exported to other countries.
Right and also many western police/military receive training from (former) IDF soldiers. Seems like Israel is the blueprint for the future of our countries.
Not part of 5 eyes?
On topic, but a side note…this is how come my trust in privacyguides.com tanked a few weeks ago. They fully support X and actually recommend using it. It’s a bunch of sloppy children running that site.
Can you link the privacyguides article? I used to rely on them quite a bit, so this would be disappointing to me. The only recommendations i found for social media are mastodon and element https://www.privacyguides.org/en/social-networks/#posting-content
It’s not an official recommendation from them. They post a lot about how there is nothing wrong with X on their forum.
Yeah, I’m pressing X to doubt on this one because the website still only recommends Mastodon and Element, and the page literally talks about why federation and decentralized social media is vital to privacy and anti-censorship. They even have people in the forums talking about twitter frontends so you don’t have to actually go to the site. They even purposely try to avoid promoting their accounts on centralized media, the footer of every page only shows Mastodon, Matrix, Peertube, and Bluesky.
It’s privacyguides.ORG btw. Are you thinking of privacytools.io?
I’m talking about the site I wrote about but had the .com wrong. I was an active member there, and had it out with Jonah about X
Source?
I am a former member and had the discussion with the guys in charge over this.
They fully support X and actually recommend using it
So where do they actually recommend people to use twitter?
Is this just a private conversation you had with someone from their org?
It was a public conversation I had on their forum.
@dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX
Fuck Israel.
Hear me out: probably not a great idea to even throw your name into trends
