Thanks for sharing some experiences from on the ground. It’s certainly anecdotal but even then already a lot more nuanced than the general 2-bullet-point rage that drives public perception.

Right, like from March or so. Everybody in the loop, especially CEOs know that AI now produces clear code that doesn’t need any review.

Hey its 2026! just ask AI who should win based on popular vibe, and be done with.

We call it vibe voting

Read between the lines

Just like main replaced master in a heartbeat.

As if one could break out of the bubble with tech bro “media”

There are still other means of communications than the way of tech Bros.

I agree. Since covid I lost my long held belief that humans are basically good.

Why is the EFF is concerned with tax laws? The traditional slippery slope is to use concerns about child safety and extend it to places where child safety is hardly a topic.

You should have cited instead the Online Safety Act 2023 which does not even use the term social media platform. Instead it uses user to user service, which is even broader.

But it also brings across the point better, and it aligns with science that tells us where childrens safety is a concern.

maybe, before you rant against governments addressing a problem that is reported from medical professionals, first take a position around the real problems that these social media platforms bring. You are certainly not on Lemmy because you are happy how Instagram and Reddit function. Are you only concerned about moderation at all, and not so much about the content they promote? For me it’s primarily the latter. In my eyes moderation is a necessary feature, and I think the only places that are even more toxic than the corporation controlled platforms are places without any moderation.

I know what social media is. You are painting a strawman of how the laws might get abused with further law which nobody is suggesting, aside from fear mongerers like you. And while focusing on that straw man you completely ignore the very real problems that social media brought into the world.

Nevertheless, even if you were right, the internet is still much larger.

They have a flag Zero Data Retention that cones with the promise that after a call no data is kept on any servers. I’m using that.

It’s contract level trust; I wouldn’t bet my life on it, but overall it’s a compromise I’m willing to make.

Who?

As if social media == internet.

I run the AI service (OpenwebUi) myself, but buy the compute on OpenRouter. Self hosting models is not an economic viability for me.

I grew up in the same mindset as you describe.

But this reality never manifested. Instead the perceived anonymity of the social media sites, combined with the algorithm, tears our societies apart.

I don’t think that the fediverse has enough reach for such a system to make sense, but Met, Google and Tiktok certainly should use it.

I applaud your critical thinking, but you are asking inside a bubble that knows answers before it asks questions. I doubt such an idea can at this time in history be implemented in a grassroots way.

You didn’t read the piat before getting on your rage.

There’s no news here. After the initial tryout phase every business I’ve seen introduced cost tracking. Seems like Accenture is doing the same now.

It still works fine for most liquids used for cooking and baking.

Oh wow. The primary ingredients are sugar, sugar, sugar, sugar and fat.

Who wouldn’t like that.