Congratulations! There should be "Banned from Reddit" medals on Lemmy/Mastodon/kbin

Fuck the CCP and putin.

I don't imagine we're going to see stories in the near future about how the police abuse these powers :/

Is this an alternative fuxking timeline we're in?

Do republicans WANT to be seen as traitorous evil dixkheads? They seem to think they can spin anything and their idiot supporters will believe it, and, after trump, they're probably right.

Considering that he doesn't give a shit about his own children, this is typical Musk-Irony (tm)

"Why is such an extensive and expensive effort being made to rescue five people who took a voluntary leisure excursion when thousands of migrants are constantly drowning in their effort to escape hardship, poverty, and war? While some of the Titan’s passengers paid $250,000 for their doomed trip, migrants are often penniless and are escaping to western countries to find work. Why aren’t nations working together to help them and save them from dying at sea?"

The reasons are pretty obvious.

I posted on /r/bing a few days how now you can't turn off tracking or history in edge but can't find the article and don't want to give reddit any traffic to check...

Stick to firefox.

You need to activate the threads account. People are being asked to follow accounts which haven't been activated IE created.

You're missing the point.

Unless there's a massive data breach which affects them personally - though not sure how that would be.

The only way to go may be forcing the mega-terch companies to respect user rights, which you'd think would be a joke - and for google/facebook/microsoft that is a joke, though it is interesting that apple introduced that "opt in app do-not-track" thing last year, where facebook shat it's pants.

hopefully this is a repeat of the fall of the USSR and we have front row tickets.

And convince people to come and create content here.

More freedom, no ads, not a profit seeking private company, privacy respecting.

One concern would be:

1. Say Lemmy/kbin grows organically to 1 million users.
2. Threads federates, with 100 million users

Do you want these users flooding Lemmy? I don't want to be biased at the theoretical type of user on Threads, though if the right wingers/trolls/extremists migrate to Threads because they think it's "more open" then that may be an issue. If it's full of soccer moms posting pictures of their kids, or karens complaining about everything, that may be an issue.

Multiculturalism is great, I want to hear new ideas, though some areas are breeding grounds for lower-think, it seems. This probably sounds prejudiced or elitist.

I want to talk to the vanguard people who take the risk and are openminded and come to lemmy, not necessarily the "lemmings" who join facebook because they love facebook and don't want to, or can't, delve deeper into why facebook is one of the worst forces in media at the moment.

I am not prejudiced (I hope) against "regular people" and "soccer moms", though think that if 10 million soccer moms came here, the discussions may not be as... interesting, as they are.

Also, I don't know what lemmy instances will think about downloading masses of data from threads.

There should be a referendum about this.

Except for his account, I'd bet.

In a country where propaganda is key, this can't be good for putin. Whichever way he tries to spin it, a warlord nearly entered Moscow and he was holed up in a bunker, whilst Luscensko (who in the past has said he would love to be a General in the russian army) was the mediator - if you believe that.

I can't wait for a well researched book about the Ukraine war.

You want to follow the porn, instance, don't you...

Oh, there's scope to introduce "official" Reddit user badges for 10 bucks a pop and all of sorts of suicidal Musk shenanigans

If the consequences you speak of are correct, then this would be a big issue.

Many of us intentionally do not use meta products and would not want meta doing anything with our information.

Lemmy/kbin should be a "safe place" from for-profit mega-corps.

Damn right. Start by releasing russia's funds held by other countries to Ukraine.

You criticize but don't even have the balls to name your browser? To back up your claims?

That is pathetic.