You’re conflating free speech of individuals, with engagement driven black box recommendation algorithms of corporations. It’s a common mistake. I think most people make it.

A company can allow people to post things, and for people to see them if they like, without algorithmically pushing it in endless scrolling interfaces.

For example Lemmy and Mastodon. You only see what you choose to subscribe to. The sites don’t chose to push any content into your feed because an algorithm thinks you’ll like it.

There is a big difference between the two.
And removing the algorithms isn’t a hindrance to free speech, only profits.

It’s always surprising to me that people think these harms are limited to kids and teens. These same issues effect everyone of all ages. Even I’ve noticed my attention span has been effected.

The federal ban is for ByteDance not TickTok.
And that’s unrelated to the states filing this law suit.

Is that why Meta is also being sued over the negative mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram?
They too are promoting a non-western narrative?

I’m absolutely all in. Rebel Moon is great.

Not sure what he’s talking about.
Just describing what’s in it, does all the “branding”.
What could they have done to rebrand what it literally says?

On the other hand, I like fun.

Sometimes people do the right thing, for the wrong reason. While not ideal. I’ll accept it.

We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.

For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.

And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can’t really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that’s something

That’s not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.

The story had feeling of being written by committee. I think that was it’s only real problem.

Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.

As a stepping stone to an octo-fold phone? Yes.

One of my favorite movies is Josie and the Pussy Cats. Check it out. If you can’t see the product placement, you might be literally blind.

And if you watch to the end, you’ll understand the product placement is part of the pointof the movie.

Me neither. Just had fun watching a fun movie.

Cowboys and Aliens doesn’t have any superheros.

And you’re wrong. It’s perfect.

I’m not trying to pick on Harris specifically here. It’s just a perfect example of politicians being asked direct yes or no questions, and them giving paragraph long responses that don’t actually answer the question.

Do you believe that climate change is largely driven by human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels? If not, is there a different cause you would cite?

Didn’t say yes.

Do you believe climate change is making disasters such as hurricanes, wildfires and heat waves more intense?

Almost said yes.

Should climate change be addressed through government action or market forces?

Practically a yes. I award a half credit.

Do you support clean-energy tax credits such as those for electric vehicles?

Again half credit. Not an actual yes.

Pretty sure he can’t, unless the law distributing it had some provision for it.

It probably lost 20+% of it’s max charge in that time. That’s what I’m talking about.

Don’t use these super fast charging rates. They aren’t good for your battery.

I got an ASUS ROG phone because you can set it to charge slower, and stop at 80%. The battery longevity will be better.

Dude I think you have exceptionally binary taste, or unrealistic expectations for most works of art. Almost certainly both actually.

I’d recommend you watch the The Room (2003), to re-calibrate your perception of how bad a movie can be.