I just don’t care 🙌
I seriously couldn’t give two fucks about supporting influencers or tech companies. Uploaders can pay for the infrastructure for all I care. Like people use to host websites out of passion, now everything is about profits, and politics, why would I want to support that? Why should I give two fucks about making someone else rich?
Fuck that shit. You can get cracked copies of the YouTube App, that give a much better experience.
Parents didn’t beat me enough as a kid.
Who said it’s stopping the sub from functioning?
I get that someone hoarding subs is uncool
So you know your questions are stupid?
Does that mean you believe society is now more right leaning then it was 40 years ago?
Pretty much any non-Marxist economists will favor “the market” over workers.
Just going to point out that “the market” is people’s freedom of choice compounded across society.
Neoliberalism, the predominant ideology in most western countries, is seen as an alternative to conservatism (very much so in the US), but they’re centrists at best, and conservative-lite at worst.
It’s almost like political parties are tied to the values of their voters.
Why would something be stopping them from posting?
There’s different degrees of harm. We all live in society, that means our choices impact other people. The electronics powering the infrastructure we’re using are full of cobalt picked by child hands. You can’t eat almonds without contributing to death.
There’s a significant difference between punching someone in the face vs posting a Facebook article. And in my opinion, trying to exert control over the expression of others is a much more deliberate and direct act.
Sorry, I’m going to try to be less argumentative 😅
Misinformation has a direct cost in lives and money. So it seems to me to be morally good to stop it.
I personally consider things like freedom of thought, freedom of choice, and freedom of expression to be pretty sacred, and to restrict those is a massive ethics issue.
Either way, no one is a citizen of Facebook or Meta. Those platforms can police their content in whatever lawful ways they desire, and if they want to police misinformation that’s no one’s business but their own.
The problem is we do have government putting pressure on tech companies to implement these polices. Zuckerberg has been infront of Congress multiple times. To me that’s just a loop hole.
And why can’t I have an opinion on how Meta polices their information?
People can still consume any information they like. But expecting and requiring Facebook or Meta to be that place seems pretty silly to me.
In this instance though Meta is downgrading their department.
Metaverse IS Big Tech 😂🤣🤣🤣
okay, okay, okay, okay… So hear this… We don’t even hold our elected officials accountable for what they say, but we’re pushing restrictions on what citizens can talk about?
Fuck that shit.
People are pissed about Trump, and anti-vax, and whatever else, and are scared of the effect of misinformation, but have you notice our demographics haven’t actually changed? Neither Republicans nor Democrats really have a hand up in elections.
So why are we restricting people’s freedoms of what information they consume?
Lol! So this won’t get to OP, but if you’re ever in this position, call their bluff and submit something to the labour board.
Even if you don’t win, if this is a corporation the company is going to HATE the manager just for being put in that position.
Even if it’s privately owned, no owner wants to be put in that position.
I mean I love it here, but everyone I’ve shown this concept to is immediately confused and intimidated.
I consider this a feature. I think nerds generate better content.
Unfortunately eventually more people will show up, because people need problems solved.
༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ take their MONIES! ༼ つ ◕◕ ༽つ
Beehaw is some pseudo moral purity echo chamber. They consider anyone with a contrary opinion a troll. People create these “safe spaces” under the guise of protecting minority groups, but fuck… I’m a minority, and I knew immediately I wasn’t going to be welcome there.
People are free to judge it as they please.
–edit–
Why aren’t other instances having this problem? Like if trolls and spam are such an issue, why do I only see relevant on topic comments in other instances?
The issue isn’t trolls, it’s political dissent. And if you care about the truth, if you care about having the ability to talk about and express your ideas freely to other people, to have uncomfortable discussions with people you disagree with, to be exposed to new ideas, and fuck… to possibly even change your mind, you shouldn’t support beehaw.
If you genuinely want that type of environment, go for it, but that place should be called out for what it is.
This type of political authoritianism is why I left Reddit. It kills discussion, and I’m here for critical discussion.
That’s not a nice thing to say to Jesus.
Literally why I came to Lemmy as a whole.
I’ve been on Reddit for the past 6 years, to answer the question about the point of reference.
(2023 - 6) > 2016
When you and I talk about Reddit we’re talking about different things.
Nah