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Unsuprising.

I was following this case all week and the FTC really embarrassed itself. If this injunction was granted it would have been even more s suprising than the CMA coming out of nowhere to block the acquisition.

And a continent is just a really big island.

Therefore a continent is actually just a big mountain.

I’m gonna miss wefwef honestly, the name really grew on me.

Porn is literally what drives technology innovation.

Porn on Reddit was probably a good 10-20% of all it’s traffic.

As history has shown, a lot of the features that come to Lemmy will be added because porn. Embedded videos for example.

And as far as I can tell it’s just pictures right now.

Yea but the difference is most instances have ethical reasons for banning certain content.

Meta could randomly decide anti-meta content doesn’t belong on their platform. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is already the case.

This article has been circulating around the fediverse and I think it greatly illustrates why it’s so important to defederate from large corporations before they can get a foothold. It’s about so much more than just them getting our data.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Let say you comment somewhere that you make minimum wage, their algorithm picks up on it and now they have you as a low wage earner in their database.

This is a massive over simplification but illustrates the point.

And done. I love federation.

It won’t be like this forever, simply growing pains of a brand new rapidly growing platform.

I hate shorts and I’ve unsubscribed from any channels that make shorts.

I don’t subscribe to you for a 30 second adhd friendly clickbait video. Major respect lost for some channels.