I consume content here via all/new so my block list is used to make sure I don’t see users, communities and instances that keep me from enjoying my time here. It’s lengthy but does the job well.

Perhaps it’s more complex than a single reason but I believe all scenarios would most likely fall into the bucket of “things were that easy for them and they lack the critical thought to realize that it’s not that easy for everyone else”.

Boomers were buying houses and cars with only one person working, retiring at a decent age and living on mostly social security.

Generational wealth has ensured that their offspring would never have to struggle.

Some settled into a job that truly does pay for all their necessities.

etc., ad nauseum.

Basically, it’s a throwaway statement and I don’t think anyone should lose any sleep feeling like they need to further discuss it with them or defend themselves. They are clearly incapable of stepping outside of their knee-jerk assumptions to find out if they’re accurate or not.

I’ll mourn him in the same way he mourns others.

Of course they do. That was literally my point. Musk didn’t bother to hide it so we don’t need new studies to show that’s how they operate.

Absolutely nobody needed a new study to show the risks. We all saw what could happen as Musk altered Grok to behave in manners that he approved of.

II absolutely love that multilingual in the language of rant. You deserve more ups than I can give.

I’ve been pegged as one who serially modals online.

They have been surveiling us for years. They just to maximize what they can collect.

nowhereelsetoshare@sh.itjust.works doesn’t seem to have any rules against politics. Go on with your bad self over there and let us dirty bastards know what the real deal is. I personally look forward to you fixing us.

As an American, I say let’s fucking go!

Went from one billionaire’s pet project to another’s and am shocked… SHOCKED, I say! That it’s the same drivel and slop.

It’s not just circlejerking about Linux communism anymore.

Pay my taxes and not rape children.

…Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.

We have no protections and no privacy, laws or no.

I feel that you actually had to work hard at misinterpreting every element of his comment.

Kudos to you.

It would be trivially easy to allow billionaires and corporations the ability to continue using them while blocking their use from citizens.

They block VPNs primarily through exit node ips, don’t they? If so, I’d just self host a VPN on a cheap VPS.

Perhaps stow away the things you use to ensure isolation. In my case, I wear earbuds everywhere and hum the song so those around me know I can’t hear them, ensuring no attempt at interaction will be made. I never look directly at them so they can’t wave me down or try to get my attention.

Reading this, it seems I gave a masterclass in the exact opposite of what you’re asking but it might make something click for you.

In this case, I think it’s target user isn’t looking to get out from under the billionaires and corpos, just the American billionaires and corpos. That’s who eyou is designed to appeal to.

The tiny number of people who are anti billionaire and corpos-run social media regardless of nationality already have our very tiny corner carved out.

The ONLY reason the industry cares is because of the fake streamers part of this. They not only welcome ai music, platforms like Spotify are creating ai music of their own so they can cut out the pittance they pay the artists.

This is not a goodguys-win story.