I don’t even understand how this is supposed to protect kids from child predators. Do child predators not want to hang out online where they can interact with kids? So not having age verification enabled keeps you siloed to where the kids are… Meaning if anything it helps predators pretend to be kids better.
Now claiming it as a way to protect kids from porn… I guess makes more sense. Because we all know that sketchy porn sites care about laws.
The sad part is here in Texas, imminent domain could take the land and pay a “fair price” to the landowner. But we only do that to poor minorities in order to build football stadiums for private companies.
Yeah, cant even do that under capitalism. One the biggest things holding up high speed rail in Texas are all the landowners who are vehemently against it.
we should separate “social media” from “attention media”
That would be the dream for sure.
What we really need is an alternative to the the original functionality of Facebook.
Staying connected with real life friends, family, and acquaintances.
Social event planning, sharing life photos, sharing life updates, hell even marketplace.
All the federated “alternatives” are basically twitter clones, which really is a very different thing at its core. I do not want to share family photos and life updates with the whole fucking planet. Just the 500ish people I “know” in real life. I also don’t want to see tweet like mastodon posts in my friend feed. Its a different thing.
I know friendica is supposed to be that, but in my experience, its slow as hell, and just feels like a weird overlay on mastodon.
With a combination of Microslop pushing users a way, and fewer people even having laptops/PCs in favor of just using their phones, I see that 10% happening pretty easily. Its always going to be the business users propping up Windows numbers.
The alternate reality where he ended up being a cop instead of a journalist.
Putting in another recommendation for Notesnook.
Can you just plug a USB HDD into that old Mac and copy the files over using that?
I can imagine the wrist schmoo building up around the edges now.