clearly people like it
It's the network effect that people like, just like every other social platform before it.
drspod
joined 3 years ago
What a misleading headline. "You'll probably be protected," makes it sound like the method is mostly working, so don't worry about it. But that's not what the article is about at all.
It should be titled, "You'll be protected probabilistically, and most data-collectors are not telling you what the probability parameter is that they are using." The study shows that users can only make good and informed choices about their data when presented with this parameter, and an explanation of its meaning.
We should have all done this about 9 years ago when it became apparent that it was being used to destabilise our democracies.
14lb = 1st.
You are part of the problem.
Mastodon for personal use: not so much as replies don’t federate with main tweet.
Didn’t this get fixed very recently? I think it can fetch all replies at the time of loading the thread now.
I thought everyone learnt during Covid not to have open zoom calls.
It's the one where Barclay gets obsessed with his Holodeck program.
People on the Turkey subreddit were running a campaign to move from X to Bluesky
I see so much astroturfing for Bluesky. They have good PR people who know what buttons to push, clearly.
I haven't used any of them, but in addition to the suggestions here, there is also Infomaniak which is a Swiss provider. They seem to have better reviews on trustpilot.
"Those guys are really investing $500bn in datacenters for steak sauce? Makes sense I guess"
- Her, probably
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good riddance