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  • Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

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  • I did do a test install (on a virtual machine), and everything seemed to install/configure fine using the python source code and instructions in your repo, but I wasn't able to see any connections being made in the listener log. Brain is too tired, but I tried all of the addresses/ports listed (Debian/bash/ip addr) and created port exceptions with ufw per the instructions file. Can this work with a virtual box?

  • Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

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  • Very cool. 100% over my technical knowledge level but I'll take a look at the code and give it a whirl when I get a chance.

    I think it would be awesome if it worked. Power to the people! ;)

  • Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

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  • sounds interesting, is the source code on somewhere like codeberg or GitHub?

    How does it work?

  • Goodbye, Reddit: How the Internet’s Front Page Is Eating Itself

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  • actually it's not ... An admin banned OP (troll account). Seems that no record of comment exists. Kinda a bug in the Lemmy software where logs of banned accounts aren't stored, or at least I don't know how to see them.

  • Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now?

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  • The answer is obviously as everyone has pointed out already is enshittification.

    Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification. (Cory Doctorow)

    Profit = enshittification. It's guaranteed as long as profit is a motive.

    An interesting concept is the idea of a distributed social web. It was the concept me, and probably a LOT of other redditors, were looking at last year, but it seems no such thing really exists. The idea that everyone's home computer (or mobile device nowadays) could act as the client and the server. Perhaps using a firefox addon of some sort.

    Do any software devs (ok that's like 90% of lemmy, lol) know if any existing projects are trying to do this? It does not seem like an unfeasible thing, and it wouldn't have to grow overnight, it could possibly just be a feature in an existing addon that allows communication directly between users. No centralized servers of any sort. Distributed communication without central control. Is this possible?

    The existing social media companies own the world (literally), and they can maintain this control because they can buy out competitors. You can't buy out 5 billion people though, so if people had the tools available to host their own web; and it was as easy as installing a firefox browser addon, a true democracy could exist like the world has never seen.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • thank you for the link, it was an interesting read. I really like the idea of using a web browser, like firefox or a fork of it, as a basis point for a distributed social web.

    I don't really understand how it would do that but it is a very interesting idea. I guess since firefox is open source anyone could create this ability. Is there a discussion about this somewhere on the web? Lemmy is a good a place as any as it's too unimportant and tiny right now ;)

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • The nice thing about Lemmy is that it doesn't have celibrities and NBA players. It's (mostly) honest discussion for the most part, sure you have a lot of people who getting angry but at least it's not like reddit or Facebook or whatever where you never know if a post/comment is real or a paid advertisement. Yeah it'd get more reach, more people, more popularity with thread integration, but there would also be more people. ...eternal September . It would be guaranteed to happen. Like you said, it's about marketing. Once Lemmy has more than a few thousand people, marketers are gonna do the same thing they did to reddit. ...destroy it. Yeah the shareholders are making out, but it's value is gone.

    I started on reddit in 2008, and Lemmy is a mirror image of what the community looked like back then. You don't need inorganic growth to grow Lemmy. It just needs quality discussions and people, the organic growth will come naturally. The only thing that needs protection against is 'linking' with any for profit entity.

    Connecting with threads and bluesky and whatever else would grow Lemmy, but for what purpose? I'd argue Lemmy isn't the end solution, maybe the devs can evolve it to work over the long term, but really I think if a social media solution is really going to tackle Facebook et al, it's going to have to be self hosted servers on every computing device in the world; where no government or organization can control, regulate, and most importantly one that cannot be manipulated for gain of a nation state or corporation.

    I know of no such software, but I have a feeling such a solution would be superior to the fediverse in taking down the existing social media cartels.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • How do you bring more people? I don't think people would disagree with that, the hesitancy is from for profits and EEE. People want the fediverse to grow.

  • Kamala Harris to propose up to $50,000 tax deduction for new small businesses

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  • Even better just require all businesses to have a union or coop democratic structure when expanded beyond one employee. Fix the problem from the beginning. All employees should have equal voice. CEO one vote, delivery truck driver one vote. For all companies large and small.

  • Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?

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  • It's simply tribalism at this point. Most people who still support Trump are simply supporting their tribe, whereas on the left most people still believe in the virtues and merits of democracy.

    I still feel like democracy will win the day. Most of Trump supporters are 50/60+ and his message doesn't seem to resonate as well with younger people.

    Feel free to post any political stuff to !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world if you'd like. You're welcome to crosspost this there too if you'd like more discussion on it.

  • Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?

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  • I think they were just correcting the number in the post text block that should have read about 1 million dead under COVID during the Trump administration in the US alone, rather than only 200k.

  • Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?

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  • I'd argue it's because citizens have no voice. The media has there corporate narrative, but the public interest has very few organizations in advocacy of it.

    Support local journalism (financially), work to break any media control on the narrative.

    The first thing people could start doing is stop providing free labor to the media. It's all over Lemmy.

    Don't link to a corporate news outlet. Link to an .edu or PBS or NPR or a quality international publicly funded news organization. Or better yet build your own narrative, your own opinions. Discuss your opinions respectfully on !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world . Build momentum and take away the corporate medias control.

    Without a public voice advocating for the people, it will be very hard to change any legislation in the peoples favor.

  • Why does the USA have so few legal protections for ordinary people, and how can we change that?

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  • Excellent points and to add to that support local journalism, the smaller the better. The media is really the fourth branch of government when it comes to checks and balances. If media integrity was restored, they could use there influence to hold Congress accountable to the people.

  • Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!

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  • I'd like to try to curtail the personal attacks and bickering with some good rules and guidelines, but I'm not sure it will go anywhere.

    Old reddit like <2014 use to be a reasonable place where people all along the political spectrum could discuss policy. That's really no longer an option because most communities/moderators just don't want to deal with that, unfortunately that only makes the problem worse...

  • Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!

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  • thank you... I will consider that if this doesn't go anywhere. Reddit kinda went downhill over the last decade... it use to be a reasonable place for discussion. I would have thought though that most people that migrated here from Reddit would be slightly more mature since they understand the evil of corporate greed but it seems like lately it's 50/50 on comments now whether you're going to get personally insulted for blinking wrong.

  • /c/politicaldiscussion is open to any political commentary, ideas, or random thoughts you may have related to politics. (self-posts are allowed)

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  • Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!

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  • thank you. I can't update the main link to that for some reason but added it in the comment box.

  • Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!

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  • if you have a global icon/banner suggestion I'm open for it. Honestly I just had a hard time finding something that represented 'general poltics'

  • Political discussion and commentary - self posts and opinions welcome!

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  • well it's not only for US particularly. I just created it because there actually doesn't exist a single community (at least on LW, I haven't searched the entire fediverse) to discuss politics, US or global. /c/politics doesn't currently allow top level posts for discussion or self posts because it is difficult to keep civility.