How powerful a tool X is depends on how much legitimacy it can gain. If politicians are leaving the platform it can’t be long before advertisers also leave. I’m old enough to remember Myspace. Even Facebook is a bit pacé nowadays.
How powerful a tool X is depends on how much legitimacy it can gain. If politicians are leaving the platform it can’t be long before advertisers also leave. I’m old enough to remember Myspace. Even Facebook is a bit pacé nowadays.
I could imagine Labour HQ running their own Lemmy server for their MPs and staff.
It really depends how well maintained the instances are. This extra work may come at a cost. Which may exclude some of the opportunists.
For personal things, computer, phones, etc. Big corpos cover this by a EULA. EULAs also covers forums controlled by the companies. For public places like websites, you can control search engines by using a robot.txt file.
Had a quick glance at this study. Forgive any mistakes, but I have a few “faulting” observations:
That’s just the point. These failings are common. That means we all fall prey to these faults from time to time. Just remember when you point a finger, at least three get pointed back to you.
I think calling conservatives “dumb” is needlessly inflammatory, and what’s worse, is it’s incorrect. They just fall for a common human failing: confirmation bias, amongst other well known fallacies.
I wonder how they measured this. Could it just be that they get more utilisation? Even per capita is probably not adequate either. You would need a measure that’s an analogue of per capita. Maybe per result? For instance I could spend half an hour attempting to get just the right set of keywords to bring up the right result, or I could spend 5 minutes in a chat session with an AI honing the correct response.
Are/were you able to log in?
I’ve logged in a few times recently and I’ve not seen (m)any ads. But I pay for prime. The subscription is hardly worth it as I’ve mostly moved to Lemmy. But there are still some communities that haven’t made the jump.
I’m reminded what GabeN said: Piracy is an issue of service, not price.
I agree with him up to a point. As price gouging is a feature of modern day streaming.
One reason Steam became the defacto standard is because the insane Steam sales that Valve put on in the early days.
They kept their monopoly in the face of other stores giving away games mostly due to service, though.
While I’m no fan of the crippleware, I don’t think this product from them would effect your average gamer. It looks to be focused on beta testers and reviewers.
But, knowing the human’s facility for laziness, odds on it will filter into general release.
In the interest of balance. I’m rocking a Pixel 7 Pro with GraphineOS and, it’s been fine, so far. It does get light use, though.
While you’re correct that laws are created by the legislature the judiciary is where they are judged to be just. At least in systems based on English common law. Look up jury nullification for more info. Also, prosecutorial discretion is a thing. Basically if any law isn’t enforced either through jury nullification and/or prosecutorial discretion then it is vestigial and should be amended or repealed.