The one true way to resolve this issue (IMO) is to pass a digital bill of rights, regulating these social media corporations, and forcing them to make their products safe for all ages.

Nope it doesn’t work that way, it’s much more complicated than that.

“regulating these social media corporations” how? how exactly are you gonna regulate them?

no matter what you do, somebody complains. put good filters in to only show good news sites, and people complain it’s not “free speech”. Make free speech, and you get hate content.

also, “safe for all ages” is bullshit, it would require digital age verification, like PornHub in Florida. Check out how that went.

FYI, the EU commission is proposing basically mass surveillance too.

Link is german. hope you can find a translator.

striking a good recommendation algorithm is impossible.

no matter what you do, somebody will complain. if you filter “good” news sources, some complain about it not being “free” enough. If you allow everybody to say what they say, you’re gonna end up with a lot of hate speech.

TikTok for me has been this refreshing different media which wasn’t mostly about politics, but about private artists creating whatever they do.

oh come on

people are in denial that their way of life - getting paid for intellectual output - is coming to an end. it’s not the case that AI just produces slop. surely it does but so do a lot of humans. you know all the memes about human workers having imposter syndrome - feeling as if they don’t even really know what they’re doing? AI only has to produce higher quality output than them. and it definitely can.

the reason why people shit on AI so hard is because they’re afraid - afraid that AI will “out-compete” them. in that sense, you could also call it “jealous”, like a woman fears she’s replaced by another woman.

people need to respect themselves and others enough to agree to survive - and thrive, even - in the absence of a productive output. in other words, only if you can allow your fellow humans a living income without work, you are truly in a position where you can live comfortably in the future.

I’m highly excited about this development!

We can’t have open software on opaque hardware. The hardware must be transparent.

true

no no keep the bot accounts so we can get a second Reddit facebook exodus wave

high pressures are scary as shit.

apart from that, there’s no sunlight down there. it’s basically like living in antarctica.

yeah, when interacting with a project/tool/website/etc. you need to look at who’s behind it and what are their incentives. For facebook, that’s making money with ads. So they push ads down your throat.

It’s important to have communal, public-benefit organizations behind the tool/network you use.

tbf, most posts on lemmy seem to be political as well.

We’d need to regulate the share of posts of

• politics
• technology
• entertainment

to be further on the side of entertainment and less on the side of politics.

if anybody can make a profit from enbottification, facebook wants to be the one to make that profit.

I think of GDP as muscle mass on a body builder.

At a certain point, it just stops making sense and being healthy.

Some can’t even put on socks anymore, duh.

I’m all for decentralized community-based hosting for large media files such as video, but i guess for text/structured databases it wouldn’t work due to synchronisation issues.

No absolutely not. It’s really getting on one’s nerves quickly, and also it’s pointless and a waste of energy.

I see your point. I think i understand the individual arguments and just for the sake of clarity i would like to list them again:

• UBI would make the people dependent on government approval.

I think this depends on whether it’s properly implemented. If it’s properly implemented, it’s Universal and does therefore not depend on social compliance.

• UBI is a technical tool and therefore, by itself, it doesn’t solve social problems

I disagree. Giving resources to people solves problems, including housing, education, and medical care. Maybe the details of where and how to allocate the resources need more elaboration.

Maybe this is a misunderstanding because what i mean by UBI is “give resources to the people that they can use for everyday life without expecting something in return”. In so far, public schooling or public healthcare are also a form of UBI for me.

• Neo-nazi, billionaires, and other people that want to give the bare minimum to defend the status quo from its collapse.

Actually, I would like to keep the system from collapsing. If it does collapse, it will cause devastating harm on not only you, but all of society, probably turning it into ruins and a state-beyond-return.

• The shift of power should happen contextually to the introduction of the UBI

Realistically, that’s not gonna happen. There’s not gonna be a “worker’s revolution” in the US. The rich take it all, leaving nothing for the poor. Dreams of a “revolution” are fairytales people tell themselves at night to sleep easier. If you really want change and to improve lifes, advocate for UBI. It really helps.

Unions will not increase the average wage. They will only even-out wages across the economy. Which means they will increase the lowest wage.

Unions will not solve the social problems in the US. UBI (Universal Basic Income) will solve them.

You need to advocate for UBI. There is no good reason not to have it.

UBI doesn’t cost the economy anything. That’s no “donating money to poor people”. Poor people will immediately spend it on food and housing/apartmenting, which means the money stays (better yet, flows) within the local economy.

The reason the US doesn’t have UBI yet isn’t because it isn’t affordable. It is. The reason UBI wasn’t introduced so far yet is because they wanted to scare the people into working harder. It’s for psychological reasons, not for real (financial/technical) reasons.

If there is 1 homeless person sitting by the street, people will say “they’re lazy and deserve this because they didn’t work hard. So i need to work harder”. If there’s 100 homeless people sitting by the street, people start to realize it’s not their fault and the system is at fault; and will demand drastic dramatic changes. UBI is an effective way to prevent that. UBI isn’t a choice - it’s a necessity for a stable society.

I thought he was talking about locked-down bootloaders or something. Because that’s a real concern to me.

Einzelfälle as we say in german.

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funny “cat” videos

cat as in pussy