: Giving people the power to build community and bring the world closer together so we can shoot them
  • Bloomcole@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Best decision ever for a company.
    The US gov pisses away billions of their taxpayers money and buys all the low quality crap from the MIL without questions.

  • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachtsEnglish
    72·
    4 days ago

    I’m gonna die telling fascists to eat a bag of dicks as they try to arrest me for talking shit about Israel on my own Lemmy instance. That’s the country these fascists are shaping for us. An AI-driven hellscape.

  • solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    66·
    4 days ago

    having been on facebook since ~2009 it was undeniably hard to quit, but finally deleting it (not ‘deactivating’) last year was one of the best things i’ve ever done for my mental health

    • latenightnoirEnglish
      24·
      4 days ago

      No, but seriously. I see this said everywhere and I think most people take it as a sort of superstition, but, like… your entire thought patterns change once you give it up, it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly. All these things do is waste our cognitive bandwidth. And, yes, I’m including any social network where “me” is the main focus.

      • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13·
        4 days ago

        it’s like an engine being allowed to slow down after over-revving it incessantly.

        That’s exactly what it feels like. I installed Social Fixer on my browser(s) to make FB at least usable for the few times I have to touch it for event coordination. People ask me what that’s like and I simply say: “Oh, it’s boring now. I only look at status updates for a few minutes and go do something else.” The pull to go back is just… gone. It’s as dull as LiveJournal ever was, and frankly, it’s better this way.

        What did I strip out of the feed? Everything that wasn’t generated directly by someone on my friends list. That’s all it took. All the “engagement” is either artificially injected into your feed, or clickbait people pass along because their feed isn’t filtered.

      • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        Not maintaining artificial connections with people who would reach out to me if they actually gave a damn about me has genuinely been liberating.

        I like how Discord- and Slack-like socials are set up. It’s just more natural. Instead of a feed, it’s a forum. It feels more like a physical place, with couches for discussion, corners of the room where people take conversation, and a hall outside for privacy. And if you understood that metaphor, then you know how I feel.

        And if I don’t like a server, I can just… leave. Never have to run into them again, but still have access to friends. No holes in the conversation where an obvious block or ignore leaves gaps.

    • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      Browsing Marketplace and chatting with my friends doesn’t really affect my mental health, tbh.

      My point here is to curate your own shit instead of relying on corporate soc-med to do it for you and you’ll be much better off.
      All the political bullshit on Lemmy affects me much more than Facebook ever has. lol

  • flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    3 days ago

    Gosh, they’re burning billions every quarter? Fuck those nerds at meta must be having an absolutely wild time pretending to work on VR…

  • paraphrand@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    4 days ago

    This interview with Palmer Luckey about the news is wild to listen to, if that’s your thing.

    You don’t hear many openly conservative tech billionaires talking like he does.

    • stringere@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      4 days ago

      Autonomous warplanes “that fly missions alongside human pilots”.

      I’m sure they’ll keep the humams involved. No way they’re trying to build a drone army that won’t question orders.

      It’s not hyperbole to say they’re working toward a terrestrial version of Equilibrium. At least, until they can build it in space.