Cavemanfreak

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

At least it gave credit to a reddit user when it suggested to a suicidal person that they could jump from the Golden Gate Bridge!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It was out yesterday because Bing had problems. So all search engines based on Bing were down.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yep. But I guess it was already banned on government phones right? (not from the US, so I'm not all that up to date....)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The section Methods on the Cambridge Analytica wiki page explains it pretty well. While it's not proven to be able to directly influence voting, it's effective at swaying people's opinions and emotions about subjects.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)

The thing with tik tok isn't only with the data China can gather from US residents. It's also how they can use that information to influence the populace and send them propaganda, for example influencing the election results.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Nope. I have filtered both grad and hexbear out of my feed though, I don't need their shit there. And don't forget that many instances already are defederated with them, so there's also fewer of them through that!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So that they can track the ship back to the rebel base!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

What? I'm pretty sure they do it so they can track them back to the rebel base.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I was planning to, but ultimately didn't. I have handed out personal blocks to obvious trolls and a brunch of hexbear users that spammed gifs in every single thread though.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 months ago

For those wondering, ReVanced launcher short after that and is even better than Vanced.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah. That movie made me not want to watch another movie by Lars von Trier, ever.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

but it doesn't mean we ignore guns.

Uuuh, you sure about that? It seems like that shit keeps happening and nothing at all is being done about it.

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