Its nuts that during the Obama admin, all anyone cared about was the threat of zero privacy. Now everyone in the US has surrendered to it, because our politicians have sold our digital privacy rights to the tech companies.

I think meta will dominate the space that federates with it. Hopefully none of my instances will do that… And I will be unaffected.

I feel like this, coupled with bot activity, has ruined the web for me. I find myself widely using it as much as i used to. Nothing is reliable really… Most review sites are just mindlessly strung together aggregates of other review sites, which are mindlessly strung together aggregates of other review sites (repeat ad infinitum). There seem to be increasing numbers of YT channels that are just bad ai generated scripts, read by a generated voice.

The signal is increasingly just washed out by the noise.

Me, a stubborn old gen x’er. : “I will leave every platform, until none are left!” Im very saddened to hear “we” have caught the hungry eye of the beast. “Can’t beat em? Join em… Then beat them…”