I wrote software for 45 years and reading this marketing drivel made me want to ... urp ... ugh ... I'm going to barf now ... too far from toilet.

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Just another reminder that you should tell anyone in your family who uses this to switch to something else. Facebook should not own your main form of communication. That’s just dangerous and stupid.

Why do people still use any of Meta’s products knowing what they do with all of our information?

But solid state battery are going to REVOLUTIONIZE the way we think about battery storage /s

Does anyone remember when this happened on Facebook? About 9 years ago, I remember a ton of really disturbing content came and went out of no where.

No one asked for this, Meta

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I'm just patiently waiting for when AI can make (good) new star trek TNG/VOY/DS9 episodes, like the fun goofy alien of the week ones, convincingly - then I'm going to retreat into the woods with a few solar panels and sit and watch infinite AI shows while society collapses. Oh, yeah, and there will be ai generated blackjack and hookers too.

If you really want to make a living off art, go down to Futaffinity and start drawing yiff. Furries drop serious cash for good yiff.

and porn, lots and lots of porn

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Are you gay if you get a blowjob from a woman who’s gay best friend gave her tips on how to suck dick? And further, can a dick-sucking robot even have a gender identity?

I think the answer to both is no, but others may have a different philosophical lens through which they view the question.

I get it you might not care, and that's fair. I think instagram was like that, but some social media should be geared towards a more global audience, and some should be more local.

Or instagram should allow the choice. I know a lot of people want to use instagram as a way of just connecting with Freund's and family, and they don't care about all the other shit. And that's fair.

But the artists need a way to connect with their fans.

This point is brought up a lot and my simple counter to it is: I don't fucking care. If I want to use Instagram to just look at my friend's photos of a bag of rusty nails Instagram shouldn't care either. No one cared about how they'd find new content before all these social media companies began introducing these intrusive algorithms to keep us on their platforms for hours and hours. It's a completely made up problem that doesn't need to exist at all.

Eh. What do you expect? The stuff gets clicks, it works, the data shows it and the algorithm follows suit.

Not really. It really doesn't spread much at all, and who is even gonna see it in the first place?

Imagine some amazing artist or YouTuber, creates amazing content.

They post it, and they get 0 views. No hashtags or anything shows their content to anyone. How is word of mouth going to help that?

Although, granted, hashtags can be something you follow.

YES ITS BACK THANK YOOOOUUUUU!!!!

Google should just paywall the news with a little notice as to why it now costs money. it doesn't seem to be a winning strategy for them so far of just blocking it

Before the internet it worked a little differently. That's what record labels did, and tv promoted things, people went to live shows, and stuff like that. It's a new world now.

how do you think people found new things before social media?

Don't worry Fusion is nearly here.

I’ve never understood the appeal of /r/all to be honest… anytime I’ve tried almost everything on there is crap.

The latter. Yes, prions get their pathologic properties by being able to misfold other proteins, but we don't know how that process works nor why it doesn't happen in other cases where proteins become mutated.

you said it not me