Bozicus

I personally wouldn't trust the website, either. It might be possible to block all the direct trackers, but they can learn a lot about you by what you do on the service, from who you follow to how long you spend on the site. If you have an account, you're paying for it in data.

...if you're okay with paying in data, that's your business, not mine, but don't assume blocking trackers is full protection.

No, they'll start raising rates for people with weight loss apps on their phone, or refusing coverage for people who made too many phone calls to an oncologist, or got a lot of texts from their pharmacy saying "X prescription is ready." Companies collecting medical data is very, very scary for a lot of people.

If you have a smart light bulb or thermostat you control through your phone, they probably know when you went to bed last night, and approximately what your electric bill was last month--unless you get electric bills by email, in which case they might know exactly what your electric bill was last month.

Confirmed, unless they have done it in the past few days, not yet. TechCrunch quoted the head of Instagram as saying that they haven't implemented ActivityPub yet. There was no specific reason why not, and no timeline for adding that functionality. I think we have at least a few months, since there are a lot of other missing features that should be higher on the to-do list.

Wait, are there people who aren't advertisers who do prefer Threads over Mastodon or Lemmy? Most of the reviews I have seen are bad, and the good ones seem to be from people who haven't tried the fediverse, though I couldn't swear to that.

Possibly. Apparently there are some possible issues with interconnection between instance admins that would give Threads information your local instance has about you. I understand that there are ways to change the code so that doesn't happen, but as of right now, there's more risk of data transfer than just posts/comments.

...Wayyyyy less than if you actually install their app, of course. But there's room for improvement.

Thanks, bot, but I personally have had better luck putting the full URL in my instance's search bar. The version starting in "!" comes up when someone on my instance is already subscribed to the community, but sometimes not if I'm the first one interested. But I will edit with the other version as well.

None, but they do get a +1 on page views and other use metrics. It's not a big deal, but it's more than nothing.

In case you're looking, there's this one, and probably others on the same instance (I am not subscribed, but counted like 8 posts within the past 24 hours, so probably enough traffic to start a discussion if you want): https://lemmy.film/c/moviesandtv

Edit: or !moviesandtv@lemmy.film

How about some modernist classical music? The more discordant stuff by Shostakovich and Stravinsky would be more or less in period, and suitably sinister. Also, some of it is quite epic. I'd look for symphonies or ballets rather than chamber music.

Megoosa is the best (or, more likely, worst, lol). Geese are scary af when I run into them in the park, because they are way taller and louder than expected, and they strut right up to me like, "Hey, I know you've got bread. Hand it over, or we will peck off all your minor appendages."

Yeah, no /s, this would be a good use of AI.