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

  1.  @isaacsspace404  That dude can be you yourself, if you don't trust others. Or you can pick a well known server in your country. Or you can rent easy hosting solution from a company that can also be held accountable. All that, while having much more power than you would have against a tech giant (both in decision making and in economic power reflected in the ability to go to court and have a fair fight).
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  2. It's an app to make public posts lmao
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  3. 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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  4. Isn't it basically 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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  5. It's public data lol
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  6. Cleaning up? He was supposedly a "free speech absolutist", meaning she's just gonna not do anything. In fact what he's doing is firing a bunch of people, then rehiring them cause they are necessary, then selling the blue checkmark then adding a grey checkmark because the blue had a purpose, then going back again... its a shitshow. The guy is clueless, doesn't know what he's doing.
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  7.  @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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  8.  @elizabethhurtado2829  it is a lie, one that glosses over the actual reasons people are using these substances.
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  9.  @driatrogenesis  wdym wrong? I use it to get status updates on services that I use. That is useful to me, and does not constitute programing...
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  10. Musks free speech claims were lies. Journalists getting banned vs not. Rampant misinformation vs some amount of cleanup. Basic rules vs whims of a billionaire.
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  11. I was going to say no, and that they would not need to replace her voice with AI, that it doesn't male sense. But... I listened to it again. And... yes it does sound different and maybe it is AI. It makes no sense to me, but yes, it does seem like AI.
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  12. ​ @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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  13. It's a free market, this stuff happens all the time. This is business, not an originality contest.
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  14. 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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  15. Yes.... this is shitty af.
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  16.  @ASK-ko9qx  yes you can have clueless opinions about stuff...
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  17. 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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  18.  @madhavyu  crypto is a real technology, whether you find it useful or not doesn't make it a scam.
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  19.  @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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  20.  @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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  21. 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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  22. SCAM ALERT
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  23. That's just wrong. People been spelling doom for ages and yet it's business as usual.
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  24. 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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  25. No, because it has no algorithm pushing crappy stuff.
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  26. With all the art heists and scams why would anybody buy a painting? With all the heists and scams why would anyone buy a ring? I mean you can say that about anything. The fact is that heists and scams aren't that significant and mostly affects those who are extremely inexperienced - unlike most other heists.
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  27. Talking about it is not illegal. Not for them, not for anyone else.
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  28. They can only upgrade your money like this because most people want it. In other words this requires a consensus.
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  29.  @kalui96  what you on about? Nobody forces anybody to update. Nobody forces anybody to participate. You can even create your own currency. So what you on about?
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  30.  @kalui96  That is patently false. Besides, you complain about everything. But everyone is free to use crypto however they see fit. When it comes to freedom there's no limitations there. Nobody cares if your ok with the creation of coins. Its anyone's freedom to do so for as long as they don't impose on you. But you go aboit shouting tyranny and then wanting to put limits on what others can and cannot create. Can't have it both ways.
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  31. Yeah, the question is whether institutional users will shift over. Like brands who use it for their announcements. Personally that's all I use twitter for.
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  32. Just signed up, didn't have issues at all
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  33. Anyone can run it, that makes it more unlikely to get shut down
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  34.  @minorityvoice9253  censorship, like when turkey wanted to silence political opponents...
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  35. Flacepalm. You need better software.
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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. 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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  38.  @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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  39. 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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  40. ​ @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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  41. Yes. You chose whatever rules suit you.
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  42. Yet you are the one dreaming of things that have not happened 💀
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  43.  @anantav51  neither was bard... "an experimental conversational AI service"
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  44.  @Moodboard39  the owner of the server can be you. You can literally host it yourself. I have already mentioned this.....
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  45. 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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  46. It's just been launched lol there probably isn't even enough data past the hype to know what its baseline actually is.
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  47. What do you mean?
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  48. Because Musk's behavior is directly driving many people away. Zuckerberg's actions however do not help twitter grow.
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  49.  @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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  50. 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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