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A TikTok alternative called Loops is coming for the fediverse | Users own their content, and Loops doesn’t sell or provide videos to third-party advertisers or train AI on them. It will be open source in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I don't really need any form of TikTok im afraid

Hey Lemmy, what's a movie you think everybody should see at least once? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some you need to see to get the references:

Soylent green
1984 (or read the book of course)
Inception
Everything by Stanley Kubrick and Tarantino

Food for thought:

Free Rainer

For something (more) crazy:

The Holy Mountain

Being an already decided voter in a swing state is swell in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

"American democracy"

Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

With that logic we should give everyone a nuclear bomb and teach them not to press the button. Let's see how that works out.

Big tegh companies spend billions on ways to influence your behaviour, making it even difficult for adults to not fall for their traps, let alone kids with still very much underdeveloped brains. Just look at all the stupid things you had done when you were a kid.

Life saving hurricane data locked behind a $10/week paywall in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Welcome to capitalism

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At leath with Whatsapp you can be sure your data is used to influence your opinions.

Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Why are you still on it though?

Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. in c/[email protected]

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

Sailing the seas until they stop trying to fck me in the ars

If "AI" doesn't attract customers why are companies hyping it so hard? Are they just dumb or is there another factor? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Just dumb. In the case of the company i work for at least.

Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads in c/[email protected]

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

I know it sounds like capitalist crep, but Peertube needs a solid form of monitization (I think).

Creating videos is expensive and hosting videos is expensive. Without a source of income for creators it cannot survive.

Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Let this be my warning to Google that I will never go back to their browser when they do. Challas! ✌️

Brace Style in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How happy I am with prettier. This is just a thing in an ancient past for me now.