The goal was to attract Twitter refugees. No ads helps sell the "greener pastures" the users were looking for.
Once those users are comfortable, Threads can do whatever it wants. They know how much it took to get Twitter users to leave Twitter.
People acting like Meta launched Threads out of the kindness of Zuck's heart are dumb as fuck. Threads has the same goal as Facebook: to make money selling your eyeballs to advertisers and your metadata to data brokers.
The bridge is necessary because BlueSky and Mastodon cannot federate, and they never will be able to. ActivityPub and ATProto are different protocols.
Those aren't rumors. The Lemmy repo is quite open about this. Lemmy's devs are part of the Tankie problem here.
Honestly, Kbin and Mbin are looking very attractive, not being run by extremists. Lemmy, as a product, is dragged down by the Tankies that make it - just as Pleroma (a Mastodon alternative) is dragged down by the Neo-Nazis that make it.
Centralized platforms get top-down control. You're trading your freedom for convenience.
Stop pining for the algorithms. They're making you stupider by guaranteeing that you only see the content you want to see, and never the content you need to see.
Bluesky is not decentralized at all.
Don't fall for it. Read their privacy policy.
They keep your data in the cloud and share it with third parties, including advertisers.
Pen and paper doesn't snitch.
We can conclude: that photo isn’t AI-generated. You can’t get an AI system to generate photos of an existing location; it’s just not possible given the current state of the art.
That's a poor conclusion. A similar image could be created using masks and AI inpainting. You could take a photo on a rainy day and add in the disaster components using GenAI.
That's definitely not the case in this scenario, but we shouldn't rely on things like verifying real-world locations to assume that GenAI wasn't involved in making a photo.
I mean, now that we know the addresses of people like Nick Fuentes and Matt Walsh, we should be able to figure out everywhere else they go too.
If we want to find the addresses of other notable fascists, just keep track when/where they're seen publicly until you figure out which device on the map is theirs, then see where they go at night.
Jackett found it immediately. Downloaded!
They only apply to games from Japan. This is the Japanese patent system.
I have a 60TB media collection, so this would end up costing $600/month.
Instead, I back all my media up to LTO-6 tapes, and store them at a storage unit.
LTO-6 drive: $400 10x LTO-6 tapes (62.5TB): $200 Small off-site storage unit: $30/month