“Experts reject” carries no weight in today’s landscape. It does not rule out the experts who could approve, of which there always are.

Classic cherrypicking to support an agenda. This case, it’s because they don’t like the death penalty.

American here.

While a lot of the ire directed towards America is warranted, a lot of it is just jealousy and envy from people who are coming online in poorer nations and realizing how little influence they have.

No it won’t be.

Programming will always be giving instructions to execute a task.

I haven’t tripped since AI was a thing, but I doubt it.

The best images while tripping are the ones in our head.

Did you notice you get more support from one sex over the other?

I find it hard to believe that the average male would be more willing to care about a transperson’s feelings over another male’s. I can easily see the average female being the opposite, though.

So true. I’m sorry you’re getting downvoted for this.

It just proves your point further. Men are expendable.

A laptop.

I dunno, for me it’s painfully obvious what the correct social media successors are.

Lemmy for reddit.

Friendica for facebook.

Pixelfed for instagram.

Mastodon for twitter.

Matrix for discord.

Peertube for youtube.

Good point. The “follower” mentality is still a foreign concept to me.

I don’t think I’ll ever be able to wrap my head around what goes through the average instagram user’s mind. I forget that a lot of them are eager to follow instead of lead.

No.

The distinction is important, and every useful idiot pivoting from one corporate platform to another should be educated on their mistake.

Don’t listen to this person.

He’s part of a culture that can’t tolerate people doing things differently from him.

That’s fucking bullshit.

My government’s citizens should pray it doesn’t reach that point, because it’s a legitimately good reason to finally go postal.

Oh, fuck nepal.

You could at least move to Pixelfed.

I doubt your instagram following is enough to make a difference from what you’d get on Pixelfed.

Hey man, you’re not alone.

I recently made a new email to get away from google and a matrix account to get away from discord. Anyone new I meet will get my matrix contact info. It will take time, but I’m in it for the long haul.

Matrix is the logical successor to discord.

We should focus on improving it instead of making something new from scratch.

Understanding why those platforms are bad is another layer of thought that most people aren’t capable or willing to engage in.

What the actual fuck is wrong with people?

Collective stupidity.

Heil*

This is America. Government is just another tool of our rulers to oppress us.

Look at how Musk conned Vegas with the hyperloop. No penalties, and nobody learned shit.