They sure are, bro. They sure are

And what’s most important is you putting smart people down to make yourself feel superior to them

Ba dum, tssh

Then we’ll just have to build and migrate to alternatives, which is preferable anyway. That’s how the internet was supposed to be.

Gain wealth and use that wealth to build a chip factory. If Intel can do it in Phoenix, so can we.

Then we’ll have to write our own chips and design our own hardware. Which is surprisingly easier than it sounds.

No it won’t. It’ll just fork the internet.

People like that need to be educated more than any other and liberating them of that responsibility only harms them, it does not help them.

Post a lemm.ee version

🤔 So what do we do? I am de-googlefying as we speak, but collectively, we really need to organize and build workarounds.

Wait until they program the devices to lock down until you pay a fee to turn them on.

They get much more data if you interact with them constantly than one profile of you from some point in the past that likely changed. And they want your participation to sell you shit, and control political discourse. They use your data for those purposes, and your participation is your data.

It’s marketing and nothing more. Just a tabulated list of reasons they think people will accept.

Those are shills and likely getting paid by Meta to come in here and shill. You all really ought to go complain to the admins of the instances allowing it, and move to instances that don’t.

I wish I had the money to set up one. I’d do it and ban those scumbags on sight, and defederate with any instance that refused to regulate them.