I still remember all the talk about the end of data scarcity in the early days. Lots of concern that we now have a new frontier that can replicate information endlessly but that they’ll try to lock it away behind paywalls and limit who can have what.

I was just thinking of communities that could act as discussions or KB posts.

I understand that some sites don’t want meta lawyers coming at them. They’re monolithic and have other infrastructure concerns that can be targeted. But lemmy solves some of those issues. Federation seems like it can revive some things that corporate owned internet has been trying to wipe clean.

Maybe the end goal of lemmy is to end up like reddit. A place to advertise and hawk products and entertainment. I really don’t know enough about it. But from what I see, I’m just wondering if it’s worth discussing.

Yes actually.

You nailed something that I’m actually concerned about. I heard this idea the other week and it makes sense to me.

Old heads saw the internet grow. We saw lots of different stages of development towards the corporate owned billboards that it is now. Younger people were raised by it so it’s all normalized to them.

There’s things older people see and go “that ain’t right” that younger people don’t. This begs the question, are there things older people should be preserving or bringing attention to that aint right or are am I just in my “I walked two miles uphill both ways” phase of life

What kicked this off was a desire to scrape Facebook groups to build a dataset. I just wanted to play around with different things to see patterns or sentiment analyses.

Seems like there was this shift or bifurcation online about a decade or so ago. Information was everywhere. Now it isn’t.

I’ve been interested in methods to scrape social media. The more measures they create to block scraping the more I want to scrape it.

I’m interested in getting datasets to play around and analyze. Personal project stuff and just to learn and upgrade myself while doing something I’m interested in.

You all deserve this and worse. No reason to complain about it. This is what everybody wanted.

Well this is where you normally would protest until they did their job. Except some one convinced everybody to blow their load with no kings 24 protest-a-thon

They should demand to only speak with democrats and or go the other way and say they’ll only speak to president Stephen Miller

😆 as funny as that would be, not sure what the charge would be.

Would totally love to see some real politicians step up and demand investigations and charges.

But we hate Trump, bigotry, racism.

This can’t be the answer. What is the difference?

Who? For what?

I see it more like a new frontier opened up and everybody gathered their supplies and such and headed west.

It was a race to be the first one to set camp and claim land. End of the day it was a numbers game. The left didn’t put up the numbers and in some cases they worked against themselves. This generation saw a new frontier and went “bah” but now those frontiers are where young men and women are getting their information, beliefs and ideas from. They will one day be the next general making decisions. How long until MAGA looks plain Jane compared to the people being raised today

I always feel like this is all governments trying to see what they can do to leverage social media for. These are all test runs that get studied and logged in a manual and every couple years a new one is tried

Iran could really fracture the country if it chooses it’s target strategically

Mods at programing humour deleted it because thats what lemmy mods do. Moderated based on vibes and personal taste. Like reddit mods just much worse

Come on. It’s honestly just jokes. I saw it and thought it was a good laugh