A trillion dollar bubble serving tech oligarchs versus a company in China demonstrating the potential to pop said bubble. Surely Microsoft et al, with their spotless records of prioritizing ethics over profits wouldn’t dare do such a thing? /s

“Rules for thee, not for me.”

At this point, I suspect they’re all either owned by oligarchs protecting one of their own, or afraid of President Musk having an executive order created to designate them a terrorist organization.

Or, apparently, introspectiveness…

Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.

Kettle meet pot?

the average American is not willing to do farm work because they got educated

Oh, this won’t be an issue for much longer. 😎

/s but not really

You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.

The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.

*With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.

Mastodon doesn’t by design

There is a trending section, and it does boost popular tags based on user interaction. It doesn’t shovel crap into personal feeds like traditional social media, but it’s not entirely lacking discovery features either.

Interesting posts being served up:

• “This isn’t a fight between republican and democrat. It’s between communism and freedom.”

• A map showing Republicans as an overwhelming majority.

• Photo about Democrats being more likely to call white people terrorists, while Republicans are more likely to call every other race terrorists.

They’re not in the majority, but not subtle enough to avoid worming their way into peoples opinions.

We should really avoid antromorphizing non-humans. Call them bots, like most of them probably are.

That sounds right for the company whose CEO was appointed moderator of r/jailbait. This was before you had to accept an invitation to be moderator, but fuck Spez regardless.

He is if the goal is privatization and enriching oligarchs…