@jrc03c Advertising is also bad for advertisers. When the US passed laws dramatically restricting advertising by tobacco companies, those companies' profits actually went up, because they weren't wasting it on marketing to compete with each other. In a mature market, advertising is basically a prisoner's dilemma: because your competitors do it, you have to too, but everyone would actually be better off without doing it at all. A ban on advertising would likely improve profits for everyone except marketing firms.
I don't know if it's actually practical or desirable to ban advertising exactly, but we could certainly make it illegal to *profit* from advertising. And the world would probably be better off.
i got really confused about where the problem was until:
Importantly, your Mastodon or GoToSocial instance isn’t handing your private posts to any random server, just because it asks. The problem only becomes apparent when you have at least one legit accepted follower from a Pixelfed server. Now that server is allowed to fetch all your private posts. And when it knows the posts, it has to decide who to show them. When you accept a follower, you not only place your trust to keep a secret on them, but also on their admin and the software they are running.
reason no. 19287390128739287 to treat 🔒 mode as nothing more than a “i don’t want to broadcast this to people we’re defederated from on a full suspension/unwhitelisted basis”
RE: https://goblin.technology/@tobi/statuses/01JQ78M14D2W19MKQ8WTSJCMDS
Hey y’all, you know how Elon and the Teen Revengers sent an email saying all federal employees needed to send a list of 5 bullet points on what the employee did last week? And they want it sent to hr@opm.gov?
Well, because the doge boys are script kiddies and not actual knowledge workers, that email isn’t closed to outside networks.
Poison their well with everything you’ve got.
I would just like to say that these signs in the DFW airport bathrooms are peak social engineering, and I do hope Dan Patrick enjoys all the phone calls from people upset about the government photographing their hairy bits.
#egv #texas #fightback #transrightsarehumanrights #socialengineering #trollingtheGOP