• @blueamigafan@lemmy.world
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    1045 months ago

    Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine Brazil apparently propping up the internet, but huge swathes of twitter shutdown when Brazil banned it a while back, for a short time.

  • @Loce@lemmy.world
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    705 months ago

    Brasil, please ban facebook. First twitter then facebook. Fuck the gready corporate assholes. Someone needs to make a first step and create a precedent, we need this. Social media will be (already is) the downfall of our civilization.

  • Phoenixz
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    575 months ago

    Makes sense for any country tondo this because as has become clear, it doesn’t matter if you’re a democracy or a dictatorship, if you are liking musk and face or not, X and meta can and will destabilize your country and once it happens, there is nothing you can do about it except banning the entire site, which will be an unpopular choice.

    Musk especially has shown to be all about himself and he’ll just push whatever political right wing party to destabilize a country.

    Fuck x, fuck Facebook

    • @john89@lemmy.ca
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      -245 months ago

      Is there any way to hide embedded images on lemmy?

      These are pretty annoying.

        • @AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
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          65 months ago

          Always one of the first things I install with a new Arch Linux install! Not because it’s useful or anything, I’m not delusional, but because it’s hella cool

          • @sharpratchet@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            A modern use case: I like RSS in my terminal so I use newsboat but hate it opening firefox and swapping me out of the terminal when I want to read more. So I have it use lynx instead.

            I also have a computer without a DE that can browse the web (lynx), look at pictures (JP2a), watch movies (I don’t recall the name of the program but it converts the video to ASCII), edit word docs (take your pick), and send email (mail).

      • @P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br
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        -15 months ago

        robot with sign "no fun allowed"

        as a PSA, before 🫵you post images on the internet, it’s important to put alt text whenever you can. Some people need screen readers to acess the web, and it can give context to help understand it. Give a good description, and if there’s text on it, include that in the alt text. Acessibility is important!

  • OneMeaningManyNames
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    475 months ago

    Meta’s anti-LGBT rules are closely knit to their ending the fact-checking: It is science denialism and linked to racism and vaccine skepticism.

    Homosexuality and gender identity are not considered mental illnesses, Sex is not a binary, and Race is not connected to intelligence.

    Bigots never liked science on these three, and now they use political power to impose their narrative.

    Meta never moderated such discourse. Nor reddit nor twitter nor youtube. There was no censorship to end here. What this is, it is a free pass to punch down trans and gay people. It is incitement to violence, and Zuckerberg and Musk must go to the gallows for it.

    Don’t get me started on the toxic harassment these platforms have allowed against African and Carribean reparation activists, how they have destroyed the lives of feminists, and how they have named all Palestinians terrorists.

    At this point race realists and gender essentialists have ensured political and technological control of the narrative.

    There is no room for debating sealioning trolls on this one. If they don’t understand the social dynamics against gender/sex/minorities at this moment, they are no better than brownshirts.

    It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

    • @irreticent@lemmy.world
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      It is permabans and hooks and jabs all the way, for every single weird freak that backs this deranged hateful shit.

      I agree. As a mod on LW myself I have to wonder how far the admin are willing to go to enforce such a policy. Are they really going to start removing mods for banning trolls and bigots‽

      *Edit: oops, I got the posts mixed up. I thought this was the post about lemmy.world’s new policy on debating trolls instead of banning them.

  • @aceshigh@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Good. At least someone is saying something. More people and companies should voice their opinion.

  • CodandChips
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    Brazil gives Meta 72 hours to explain new fact-check policies>

    Meta: we don’t have any

    • @OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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      45 months ago

      They do, tho. It’s community notes. If multiple people agree on a correction, especially if those people usually disagree with eachother, it becomes the note