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fearout

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Professional industrial and jewelry designer (here's my Bēhance portfolio), hard-sci-fi enjoyer, cat lover and procrastinator. Started a few communities on kbin: Urban Details, Industrial Design and Jewelry Design, feel free to join if you find those interesting.
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fearout , to Politics in ‘This is a death sentence for me’: Florida Republican women say they will switch parties after DeSantis approves alimony law
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That’s quite a succinct observation

fearout , to Politics in Nearly a quarter of Republicans say classified docs charges make them more likely to support Trump: poll
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Why tho?

fearout OP , (edited ) to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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I think a lot of those are just people who want to be able to talk to their non-techy friends within the fediverse, but who also either haven’t yet realized the full scale of Threads’ privacy overreach, or they don’t give a shit/think it’s irrelevant since they don’t plan to use threads themselves.

fearout , to RedditMigration in Reddit mods fear spam overload as BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
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Reddit is already antagonistic af

fearout OP , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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Someone who doesn't read it for starters

fearout OP , (edited ) to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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I was talking about iOS, the image in the post is compiled from AppStore screenshots. Here’s a relevant page on Apple's website.

As for Android, I’m not really sure. Probably by installing DuckDuckGo? It runs a local firewall-type thing that blocks known trackers.

fearout OP , (edited ) to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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You can block some things (like location data), but a lot of it is only moderated using an "Ask app not to track" button, which is more lenient.

fearout OP , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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That's pretty much what you're doing when you sign up, only remotely.

fearout OP , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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Yeah. Seems like Apple doesn't have enough categories for all the shit they collect.

fearout OP , to Fediverse in Full, expanded list of all the data points and their purposes that Meta's Threads collect and link to user accounts. It's even more insane than you might've thought.
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A lot of it duplicates across categories, but I left everything in so that you can assess each category for yourself.

fearout , to Politics in The cringiest presidential campaign ad video you will ever see, courtesy of Ron DeSantis
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It’s not even defensive. Reads like an actively aggressive stance.

fearout , to RedditMigration in Hello
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fearout , to RedditMigration in What’s with social media companies trying to destroy themselves recently?
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Yeah, I missed out on that outrage. What are people disliking so much about that?

I remember seeing that pop up, realizing that all this time I just had some generic username with my name and numbers, and changing it to my usual username. Were there some negative consequences to the service in general?

fearout , to RedditMigration in What’s with social media companies trying to destroy themselves recently?
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What’s so bad about giving AI models something to learn on? Add LLM-tier accounts to your social media company and have at it. And fix data/traffic issues by giving users the ability use their own tokens/api keys/whatever to limit bandwidth without affecting end users as significantly as they did with current decisions.

That way you could detect and address rogue scrubbers while still working with LLM creators who are open to an honest training integration. And if your company can’t really detect the difference between users and LLM crawlers after implementing something like this, well, then those crawlers don’t really affect the company as much as the CEOs would like to pretend.

fearout , to RedditMigration in What’s with social media companies trying to destroy themselves recently?
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This is a great write up, but what I don’t get is why do these companies stick to these idiotic measures instead of turning to their users for help in an open dialogue.

Like, I get that Reddit needs to make profit, and I actually wouldn’t have minded paying for Reddit premium to use my api key with Apollo. Instead Reddit made me and I’d guess a lot of people like me leave and never want to return. Just left with a lingering bitter aftertaste.

Did they think that they wouldn’t get enough funding that way? Well then how about giving it a test run to see if it works? Didn’t work? Well how about asking your users what they might be missing and what they might want to be more happy to subscribe, and adding features/addressing those issues? Working with developers to establish a revenue sharing agreement? There were so many alternative paths.

No, apparently nfts and shitting on your users is where it’s at.

Have a conversation, run polls, A/B test, etc. And be transparent while you’re doing it. These tools are nothing new when developing a service. Why ignore everything?

I mean, is it really just a competence/arrogance thing alone?

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