@DrCassone While the toots statement is true, the statement in the picture is incredibly short-sighted and just plain wrong. Even worse the AI generated background as well as the missing alt text.
Yes, treat the root cause. Yes, bodily functions and misbehaviour can lead to depression. NO, medication is NOT addictive, it's an ENABLER of successful treatment.
@adiz Your narrative is off. What @iska is angry about isn't the blocklist of mastodon.social or any other instance of the Mastodon gGmbH but a list made by a single person as far as I know, @Are0h. And yes, I also think a huge amount of the list "Bad Space" is either nonsense or based on information that simply isn't available.
tl;dr Your hatred makes you blind. If you want to criticize Mastodon - and there are a fuckton of reasons for it - you got to put due diligence into your arguments.
It's so nice big tech corps didn't kill RSS / Atom feeds yet. It's almost the only sane *and* comfortable way to read different media sources nowadays.
art in the picture by the fabulous @davidrevoy :blob_rainbowheart:
@chrisg@aral It is. Context-based advertising isn't worse in any capacity - it even turned out to be better where it was used. No tracking tech required, lower power consumption, same range (turns out people who're shopping in the smartphone category are interested in technology products, wow!), no need for intense data brokerage etc.
However that simply can not be. Tracking-based ads are the only reason Google, Meta etc. exist. Which is why they must die. ๐
@aral People should explain sth. like Pi-Hole to others not just as adblocker and security measure, but also as speedbooster. All those unecessary requests bouncing even before your router can be a huge accelerator.
@quincy There's nothing else to expect from this @EU_Commission - just look up how they treat even the parliamentary when it comes to criticism of f.e. #Chatcontrol. They sure love the idea of the european total surveillance state, damn everyone stating those pesky "facts" or "citizen rights".
I can only hope the decay of the US serves as some kind of wakeup call to them, otherwise we as citizens are royally fucked.
Basically any time where those who want the company to do good are giving away financial control to those who only seek financial gain. Pure monetary greed and those who embody it are the key problem.
Stuff has to be financially sovereign, otherwise it gets corrupted.
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