/tech/ - Technology

Most interesting stuff is outside social media. Social media is just an aggregator with a discussion forum. Science is published outside social media and news too

Sue them using GDPR and DSA as your basis

Just pick one and stop whining
https://www.furryfediverse.org/

Or get into web surfing. You will never run out of 'content' if you learn to use your bookmarks, revisit stuff, and actually explore instead of trying to be a citizen on one website.

We have like 8 threads of this premise already.

>>32327
wait until you hear about the replication crisis

>>32330
shilled it again award

>>32331
>replication crisis
That thing about half of psychology studies being shit?

>>32331
>shilling an open protocol and the act of actually surfing the web
Gladly. It will happen again.

>>32332
mainly psych and medicine. the inevitable consequence of 'publish or perish'

>>32333
the software behind a platform being foss doesnt magically change the overall culture being the same as proprietary ones

>>32334
Use an instance that isn't in the Home Owners Association archepeligo. That's why I reccomended furry instances, the HOA defederates from people that don't set their biometrics as their pfp.

Many of these instances operate on a "does not defederate by association" basis, so by agreeing to be on that list, those instances are all okay with non-HOA instances, meaning there are no mini-HOAs in there.

My post is stupid and off topic. Probably much more than being manipulated is who you're being manipulated by and for what ends. I think it would be perfectly acceptable to be manipulated for the sake of human flourishing, or inline with my other goals and interests by a third party - to some extent this is inevitable in human interactions where people care for one another. The problem then is that the mechanism governing this power really only wants to maximize interactions with the ad network, which is completely orthogonal to even successful use of the product for ones own ends, as enshitification has proven they're even willing to do this at the expense of the product. Am no longer certain that power in itself is bad.

There's nothing worthwhile online. Go outside and get in a fight with the homeless.

>>32337
>>32338
>There's nothing worthwhile online. Go outside and get in a fight with the homeless.
Looked over the ~500 YouTube searches or videos I'd clicked on over the past two months. If I had to guess there was something like 15 videos which seemed worthwhile. It's so easy to use these (Anglo) platforms to just waste away - which is at least permitted by the design.

Meanwhile my LLM (trained on the Anglo-brained internet) seems to be slowing my progress or just giving me guesses as much as it's giving constructive advice, and it takes way too long to load. I'm going to seriously attempt to moderate my usage of this technology, despite being as tempting as it is - this includes turning off instant answers in my search.

My duckduckgo searches are equally trash - though much less frustrating, or distracting. I may attempt to use this technology less too. Very rarely do you concerted effort over a time to achieve any goal whatsoever.

I would blame the technology, and the natural reaction is to just smash the machines wherever possible, however really I think the problem is how these terminally Anglo-brained individuals are using this stuff. How many of these terrible videos, or websites turn out to be festering with Anglo abominations? Even watching Germans play a Swedish video game it's clearly entirely in the paradigm of Anglo-brain, that there's nothing but Anglo in this interaction. And YOU are the problem too.

>>32348
>(Anglo) YouTube
I've made an attempt to block this now.