@[email protected] Bluesky is full of people that just want to spite Musk and that's it.

Basically the times where kids were left unsupervised is pretty much gone, because unsupervised time is spent on the internet and parents don't want their kids to be/do something they shouldn't. So basically the death of real world spaces for kids + constant supervision under the internet = people who are comfortable under control of a higher authority.

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I think Gen Z and Gen Alpha will be known as the "Controlled Generation" or something like that. The internet is not for kids because everyone on here tries to influence people via either the algorithm or the people who post on these platforms (hence why the term "Influencers"). So to avoid the dark patterns and effects these platforms have on kids, some parents will heavily supervise or even restrict the type of content kids see, which becomes another form of parenting and control over kids.

I kind of see this effect with my Zoomer friends where they want the "Controversial YouTuber Of The Day" to be deplatformed (because blocking isn't enough apparently) because they are a "bad influence". I think decades of platforms basically policing, censoring and enforcing their own rules and guidelines made a generation that basically became dependent on some higher authority to take action and "protect" people, or for content creators to have a "Good Influence" and cancel them if they don't. It all falls under them basically wishing someone else controls or guides what they do or see.

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"I wanna install TikTok."
"No."
lmao

KDE Linux sounds interesting. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

@[email protected] @[email protected] That sounds interesting and I'll look into it.

@[email protected] @[email protected] That's true, I guess. The only way to prevent it is to not have a contact number so it's fucked either way.

@[email protected] @[email protected] I still think there's some privacy value in a dumbphone if your threat model only concerns surveillance capitalism i.e, companies like Google, Apple, etc gathering telemetry. Tapping into calls and triangulation seems more like a targetted attack done by the government rather than a passive data collection from all users for advertising, profiling and AI training purposes.

@[email protected] @[email protected] Didn't know that. I guess cell phones are inherently not private :|

@[email protected] @[email protected] I guess but I always thought of it like, "Well some of these dumbphones don't have stuff like location tracking (if you go for one without maps), doesn't have Google Play and other stuff so it must be more private" but I guess it's not a 100% thing.