Comments by "Technolus" (@technolus5742) on "WSJ News" channel.

  1.  @minorityvoice9253  censorship, like when turkey wanted to silence political opponents...
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  2. ​ @JojoLannister because that information has been mishandled for purposes that the users did not consent to and used to influence elections, such as by tailoring contradictory promises to different target groups.
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  3. It's public data
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  4. That is purelly false. There are scams performed with recourse to crypto. Crypto itself is an actual technology. Moreover a fully open and transparent technology.
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  5.  @madhavyu  crypto is a real technology, whether you find it useful or not doesn't make it a scam.
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  6.  @madhavyu  But crypto have kept their value for over a decade. Doesn't look at all like a pump and dump, it looks like a value that has been sustainable and companies have thrived around it.
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  7.  @madhavyu  Pump and dump is a fraud. Bubbles are an organic market behavior. Saying crypto is a pump and dump is just false, saying the prices are too high for what it's worth is possibly a valid opinion (though historycally the price has been sustainable).
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  8.  @madhavyu  A crime is mutually exclude with not being a crime. Cryptic is not a crime. It is not a pump and dump.
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  9. Not really. Reddit runs the servers. Twitter runs the servers. Users run the servers with Mastodon. Reddit says what is allowed on the platform. Twitter says what's is allowed on the platform. You say what is allowed for you in Mastodon. Reddit can ban you. Twitter can ban you. Mastodon can't ban you.
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  10. ​ @CHMichael  The difference is pretty fundamental. 2nd life is playing dolls, a simulation of a world in a box, while any of these social vr platforms simulate the outside world, the environment you are in.
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  11. @stevenevents ? The project is open source, you can run it yourself, copy it modify it if you want.
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  12.  @Bellysniffer  Users themselves are doing the moderation, and are able to personalize it however they want. I suppose people can create any kind of derivative of this open source project. But most people will simply join regular servers where the moderation practices will be similar to those of big tech companies.
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  13.  @Bellysniffer  oh you are responding to the op comment. Personally, I think there can be some common sense guidelines, for instance regarding people insulting eachother or spreading false claims. For as long as it's not a platform intentionaly made for spreading hate and falsehoods, it should allow everyone who is in good faith to participate while keeping bad actors from running rampant. Courts and Wikipedia are good examples I suppose.
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  14.  Zaydan Naufal  Encyclopedias are generally not acceptable sources in academia lol Wikipedia is pretty good and even comparable to other encyclopedias for accuracy, which is quite impressive.
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  15. In a couple years they can. In the meantime their parents can
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  16. Nothing like discord at all. You just heard servers and thought discord lmao.
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  17. Discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  18. ​ @captainamericaamerica8090  looks fine lol more stylish than any others in the market for sure.
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  19. ​ @webpresent they are pretty much unlimited and only pose a substantial cost to amateur bots usually providing some free service to the community. For large scale data farms it really doesn't mean much.
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  20. He still depends on ads, maybe this limit will get some people to pay for access to more posts, but that sounds like far too little to compare to ad revenue. Thing is: company's revenue is down, and they have to do something about it, whether cutting costs or squeezing more money out of their users. Thus may just be a way to cut costs. Google wants their money for twitter's use of their servers, and payment is late. No use trying much to guess what oddities the guy is concocting, we'll know soon enough.
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  21. Same as how is it different from Twitter: This is not controlled by a company, instead is controlled by the users.
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  22.  @TK-ek5kp  full pass through to your collection of stone axes 😂
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  23.  @TK-ek5kp  that's a lot of bricks being wasted most of the time. It would be brilliant to just have 1 brick replacing all those.
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  24. What? Zoe is on this clip, she was just introduced by Julie. (Seems Zoe is doing field work?) Am I missing something there?
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  25.  @SorminaESar  I think it's just field work. It's been like this for weeks, maybe a month. I hope everything is alright too
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  26. This applies to all users, not just to those who complained, and there might be more to it than meets the eye. Besides twitter is hypermediatized due to Musk's stunts, so people pay closer attention to it.
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  27. SCAM ALERT
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  28. Yes. You chose whatever rules suit you.
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  29. That's just wrong. People been spelling doom for ages and yet it's business as usual.
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  30. It's a free market, this stuff happens all the time. This is business, not an originality contest.
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  31. Many people prefer a platform that is not as littered with misinformation and hate. It's absurd that people go around declaring a platform dead as soon as it is launched, especially when it is tapping into the resources of existing social media to fuel the greatest start of an app ever. Let's wait until it actually somewhat stabilizes before making random predictions based on personal feelings.
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  32.  @Sebster85  Your comments won't be the subject of moderation unless you go around being rude or spreading blatant lies. Do you really have to pretend to be civil? I find political censorship worrisome, like when Twitter engaged in censorship in turkey. Now insults and concerted efforts to lie to the population at scale? No thanks.
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  33. It's cause it's not a scam. You can say it won't succeed for a variety of reasons, but to say that it's a scam is patently false.
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  34. Source? All the newest reports I see say 20%. It's normal that people rushed all at once to try it out initially and then defaulted to a more normal usage pattern.
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  35. ​ @chrisfrank4267  Looked it up: What is down 75% is searches for the word "threads", not the app itself. The app is down from 49mil to 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter’s audience (with about 20% as many total users). That's a drop of 50%, not 75, and the end numbers are similar in proportion to twitter.
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  36. Nope. Same as it is not Twitter. Reddit runs the servers. Twitter runs the servers. Users run the servers with Mastodon. Reddit says what is allowed on the platform. Twitter says what's is allowed on the platform. You say what is allowed for you in Mastodon. Reddit can ban you. Twitter can ban you. Mastodon can't ban you.
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  37. Yet you are the one dreaming of things that have not happened 💀
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  38. Yeah... shouldn't be that dificult to just have a piece of code delete all the comments containing the same keyword...
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  39. Anyone can run it, that makes it more unlikely to get shut down
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  40. Just signed up, didn't have issues at all
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  41. North Korea carried out an attack. That's bad. You can point fingers at whoever you want, it's still bad. It's bad. You got it? Bad.
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  42. No, because it has no algorithm pushing crappy stuff.
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  43.  @DanielOdhiambo-io  google's biggest mistake was not fact-checking. microsoft has done really well with the copilot ai. I think saying they are all about profit at all cost isn't completely accurate when Microsoft hardly even enforces their windows licenses when it comes to piracy.
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  44. Talking about it is not illegal. Not for them, not for anyone else.
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  45.  @elizabethhurtado2829  it is a lie, one that glosses over the actual reasons people are using these substances.
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  46.  @elizabethhurtado2829  elites? Its not just the elites. Workers do it too. People trying to improve their life, to increase their abilities to aid them in some effort they are undertaking. Not sure what any of this has to do with your kids. Most likely it has nothing to do with them, I suppose you are simply worried because maybe your kids for some unrelated reason have used drugs or been affected by someone who does. Hardly anything to do with people trying to increase their productivity in a generally responsible way. In any case, sorry to hear you and your family have had trouble.
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  47.  @QuizmasterLaw  These people are generally not addicts.
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  48. Twitter, the new hip platform for zoomers. Seems unlikely.
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  49. Because it seems to be unknown if there is any? This is not the old cathod ray tubes.
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  50. Me neither. Might still not be desirable. What should be the bigger problem is being associated with a platform that invites misinformation and extremism.
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