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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Honestly I hope it shuts down. This provider caters to racists, fascists, misogynists and the like.

Who gives a fuck? Corporate social media cater to idiots too, just more common varieties.

Why does it matter what Kanye tweets about if I enjoy his music? Why do the politics of my favorite FOSS program's maintainer matter, or what commentary they include in documentation, or the presence/lack of a flag in a social media handle? Why does it matter that a public demonstration I'm at has some fellow demonstraters whose lifestyles/politics I find abhorrent?

All you advertise to the world with this fearful mindset is that your behaviour will change on a dime given the slightest chance of bad optics. It's a rotten way to live life.

Governments and marketers absolutely love people who think like that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You'll find that these professions have a vested interest in maintaining network effects, and as such will view Mast/Blue as threats to their networking infrastructure. They don't want to dilute the importance of the platform their patronage systems rely on (let alone destroy it) - in fact its centrality is why they leverage it to advance their careers. Artists I can see understanding platform agnosticism to some extent, but for the other two groups, it's simply not in their DNA. The gatekeeping is a feature for them.

'The medium is the message' as a Canadian theorist once said.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lots of banned artist and album names that will return zero results, unless you do something like search for a song or two that's on the album you want and finding the data that way.

The only objectionable hurdles are the insurmountable ones

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Last Christmas I gave a family member a flash drive containing ~10 high quality movie encodes, basically a shortlist of the year's personal highlights I think they'd enjoy too. I don't know if they've used it, but I'm going to make a habit of it until I hear otherwise. A drive for a handful movies is cheap enough to not worry about if it's never seen again. Give them a large capacity drive however, or access to a Plex server, and paralysis of choice occurs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.

This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Smear campaign

A smear campaign, also referred to as a smear tactic or simply a smear, is an effort to damage or call into question someone's reputation, by propounding negative propaganda.[1] It makes use of discrediting tactics. It can be applied to individuals or groups. Common targets are public officials, politicians, political candidates, activists, and ex-spouses. The term also applies in other contexts, such as the workplace.[2] The term smear campaign became popular around 1936.[3] [Wikipedia[

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Look everyone, it's the season 37 opener of I'm not going to use the great tool because people I don't like are also using the great tool!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Australia tried this in the early noughties I believe - running a non-public URL blacklist. After some parliamentary accountability and commmitees got it cracked open, they found that about 10% of the sites met the definition for inclusion, with the remainder being a grab-bag of things various politicians and bureaucrats didn't like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Private torrent content escapes naturally because it's often shared on other P2P tools in use by the peers.

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