The Velour Fog

Fuck Indeed. They sell your data to job scammers.

We must, unfortunately, factor in the idiots. They’re quite pervasive.

Not entirely sure, I’ve never had to decouple someone from social media. My relatives are hopelessly addicted to Facebook.

A suggestion would be to try to gently persuade them of the harms of WeChat, but not to be too pushy about it, could cause them to push back or use it on secret. If they care about their privacy, perhaps taking that route would be beneficial. Having some articles on hand that affirm your argument can help too.

Uninstall TikTok. It’s spyware anyways.

Aw come on, leave Notepad alone! It’s like the last good Windows program.

And he and his “landed gentry” have been working round the clock to silence negative opinions about shitty people like Musk and Kirk.

I’m starting to get convinced that Redditors and mods are just gluttons for punishment by that platform.

They’re planning on kneecapping old.reddit in this update too, and you see all the typical howling about “if they kill old.reddit I’m leaving fr this time” while at the same time, another big thread one comment lower is about all the ridiculous bans that people have gotten. And this is a mere two years after the API fiasco.

Why do people continue to use a platform that has proven time and time again that the asshole(s) in charge do not give a single fuck about them?

Can confirm. You can have the mildest takes and still get permbanned.

Did you know, that saying Neo-Nazis should be named and shamed is a permbannable offense?

Reddit is becoming Xitter 2.0 and I’m really hoping the remaining human users on there figure it out soon.

My first cell phone was a flip phone, and I’m not gonna lie, I’ve considered revisiting my teenage days again and getting one. But I feel like, right now, my smartphone use is very light.

I avoid Meta apps, I don’t play mobile games, my biggest vice was reddit which has now become a shithole of bots and censorship so I don’t go on there anymore. I read the news on here, chat a little on Discord, check my birdfeeder and that’s pretty much it besides occasional use of google maps as needed.

On top of that, this phone is from 2018 so its battery life these days is not great. I think that helps too.

Maybe for those hesitating to get a dumb phone, perhaps start with an older smartphone to whittle your time down?

Some mainstream websites and services are practically unusable when using a VPN, too. I’m glad I stopped using imgur years ago but I wish the rest of the world would catch up…

Why tf are they encouraging dating when their userbase is primarily children???

That’s just asking for more predators on their platform!

I mean, we all know that reality has a well known liberal bias…

Greentheonly also has a reddit account and was commenting on this article over there. I’m incredibly surprised that he hasn’t been permbanned yet. That’s usually what happens.

Someone should ban this shill/bot.

Does this law apply to all social media/social media-type sites, or only social media websites under the umbrella of the NetChoice group?

The articles on this are all frustratingly vague. Bluesky is not under NetChoice so I assume all social media sites will eventually be blocking MS IPs?

Yeah, my bfs dad is constantly filling his house, garage, and yard with a bunch of crap that he’ll never use. It just sits there and gets forgotten and deteriorates. Took us 6 years but we got like 90% of what he was storing out of our house too.

Wow, his statement sure sounds like a threat to current employees.

I like how bro just drops an all caps advertisement on here and then bails without answering any questions or tech issues with it. Great job buddy, this will definitely get everyone on board.

Business owned by greedy manbaby says to give money to business also owned by greedy manbaby. Hmmm…

Cost of doing business. Add it to the pile.