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Could you please elaborate on what you mean? Facebook is a company and therefore its success and failure is dependent on its customers/users, right?

My argument is based on free-market economics. The users/customers seem to not care enough to put their time and money elsewhere.

The author seems to be filled with a sense of “knight-in-shining-armor-ism.” If Facebook’s actions really are a problem to most people, then most people would stop using it.

He calls Zuckerberg a "pope-emperor" of Facebook's users, but that's because the users choose to give him power. If the users stop choosing to give him power, he loses it.

A regulation like that has to be examined for the incentives it creates, not just the goal. If companies are forced to disclose research that involves customer or public harm, they will probably just stop doing the research, or fabricate false results. Thus, information is lost rather than disclosed. No companies want to say “our product is harmful to our customers.”

Thank you for sharing the link. I like the idea of standardization among smaller social media platforms. Basically, the success of a platform built on ActivityPub becomes more tied to the success of ALL platforms built on ActivityPub.

It seems like all new social networks have a vicious fact to overcome: nobody's on it, so nobody uses it, so nobody's on it.

How do social networks reach that "critical mass" of users?

The argument was that Facebook is neutral as a platform. Similar to the internet, it serves all kinds of content. Some of the content is good, and some is bad. That doesn't necessarily mean the platform is good or bad.

An alternate explanation is that the algorithm tries to promote engagement and user retention. Presumably, people susceptible to radicalization engage with the content discussed in the article. It would be unreasonable to expect Facebook to not act in its own self-interest.

Digital advertising is much more accessible for the small fish too. If a business has a Facebook presence, $10/day can get a campaign going, and scaling it up is trivial.

Facebook for example has a “tracking pixel” script that can be included in your website to get detailed info about conversions from Facebook ads.

This article is just trying to sell the reader on the "Rare Breed" idea. For every successful "Rare Breed," there are nine who failed. I say let the companies decide who they want to employ.

OK, that seems fine. I know YouTube's automatic DMCA policies are notoriously bad, but it sounds like this is a more accurate manual approach.

How does YouTube separate content presented as fact vs content presented as opinion? False facts is one thing, but what if someone is just hesitant about vaccine safety?

What is the advantage of Fortran over only C in numpy’s case specifically?

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A helpful clarification.

I've heard good marriages described as a 100 / 100 partnership, not just a 50 / 50 one. You described that idea excellently, thank you.

Religion generally claims to offer salvation. Of course, not all people believe that. However, that is probably its biggest difference from any secular organization.

I have a problem with the way the author frames social media. I seem to not clearly fall into either the observer or validator camp. I generally use social media as a way to try to add value to others through comments. I care less about the actual content and more about the discussion around the content. Thus, a lot of the author’s points are irrelevant to me because I see social media as an uplifting, positive thing. Why would I then want it gone from my life?

Glad to hear it! Seems like not too long ago mobile devices were worthless after a few years, but those days are past.

I love the conviction of your comment! Thank you for sharing that testimony. It is often overlooked in discussions like these.

Can anyone speak for iPhone 6S performance with 15? I'm on 14 currently and it runs quite smoothly. I assume it would be similar on 15.

Command Palette is really useful. However, there are some UI quirks with text layers, selecting layers, etc that I never quite got the hang of.

I agree with this. Religiously, I believe plants and animals are for the benefit of mankind. However, they must be used responsibly.

I was under the impression the Holdo maneuver was just basic projectile physics: huge projectile with huge velocity. I guess the in-universe explanation isn't that simple.

Some people don't like gray-market licenses. I'm not one of them, but they definitely exist.

Runs very smoothly on Safari on iPhone 6S! An impressive job by the devs.

The development priorities of Minecraft are a little strange. They have had a lot of opportunities to increase extensibility and performance (see modding API, cubic chunks, etc) but were too slow about it or focused on other things. AFAIK the long-term vision is to move the game entirely to the C++ clients which are much more performant, but a lot of the core playerbase is still on Java for modding and platform compatibility.

I must’ve purged over 50% of visual elements from Fandom wikis with my uBlock filters. It’s outrageous how much garbage is served. I wonder what their UX design meetings look like.

So by your logic we should remember people like George Washington as essentially evil. How is that fair? One’s achievements and flaws must be considered inside their historical context, not our modern viewpoint.

Another one: inventory pooling. When a product is “fulfilled by Amazon,” it comes from warehouse stock. However this stock can be contributed to by all sorts of sellers, legit or counterfeit. So sometimes buyers will receive a knockoff when they purchased a legitimate product. I have a relative who designs and sells electronics accessories, and he said this is a serious problem he runs into when selling on Amazon.