Big incel energy with this comment

Hostile governments can probably just buy the data from the same data brokers the US got it from

You wouldn’t download rear-heated seats.

Mastodon really runs on direct post engagement, especially boosts, to make the whole thing work without an algorithm

It’s very similar to tumblr in that a boost is supposed to function like a like/upvote to spread content, since no automated algorithm is going to suggest that post for you.

But I’m sure people are also trying to grow their networks quick, since it’s sort of a hollow experience without it

“Both sides” at its finest.

Needs a special character?

Password123!

Does woke mean shoehorned or pandering? I feel like “woke” media is labeled as such because of its fundamental socially progressive ideals, and those negative connotations are added by opponents to try and tear down media that’s been designated “woke”

Compared to all the other movies, games and other media that is given the “woke” moniker, Barbie was very firmly “woke”

It spoke directly about how the US and world is a male-dominated patriarchy, and spent the last act going explicitly over in great detail the negatives for women in their gender roles, especially when dealing with men and male partners.

If any other show had even one of the major plot points or lines from this movie, it would be labeled “woke.”

This is how Mickey Mouse comes into creation

I’M TIRED OF THE STANDARD REFERENCE JAR OF PEANUT BUTTER TURNING OUR SANDWICHES GAY

If you don’t choose to believe in it, it can’t hurt you. That’s verified fact

Indictment Prime

Salix is right that it alludes to the Dead Internet Theory.

I don’t actually subscribe to the full theory that the internet is already dead and we only talk to bots, but I do think bot activity may become advanced and pervasive enough to create a “Dead Internet” like scenario (or at least fundamentally alter platforms away from what we currently know as the internet experience)

I think it was more an attempt to not flood the sub with one event, because they aggregated the list of topical articles on the megathread and restricted any new submissions on the subject

These companies not being able to handle bot attacks without hamstringing major parts of their platforms is a canary in the coal mine for the Dead Internet.

Democrats are not in control of Congress. The House is currently R controlled and they barely have the votes in the Senate due to Sinema and Manchin.

Or maybe load billions more in debt onto a company that was just barely treading water

If it’s like the subreddit, it’s owned by the Sitecore company (CMS software) and they post a constant flow of updates.

So yes to everything except the bot part

It’s as if the site has prepared a starter culture of past successful memes to help ferment Lemmy’s shitposting

It’s in bad taste to speak ill of the dead

You cannot die, that would be amoral and unethical.

Instead you must live on with mountains of medical debt, sickly and defeated