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I use letterboxd for everything but reviews (I never read them unless they are from friends), and I love it. The user experience is just great. The webapp is lightweight, looks cool but isn't cluttered or unnecessarily fancy. I'm provided the relevant information I care about right where I would expect it to be. I sound like a shill, but I enjoy their website a lot :D

On a serious note, entactogens such as mdma (but also psychedelics such as shrooms or lsd) has been shown to strengthen pre-existing beliefs or in-group bounds with people subscribing to the same ideology or way of thinking. If you are, eg, a noenazi and take mdma while surrounded by other neonazis, chances are that you will strengthen your beliefs because you're empathizing with the people surrounding you, and that enhanced empathy might strengthen what already links you to these people (hate, believing in conspiracy theories about jews, feeling to belong to a superior race, etc), especially if you believe you belong to a niche group that is being excluded by society or that is heroically fighting the power that be.

These kind of flips in a person's way of thinking are possible when they are facing something that contradicts their existing beliefs or that might suggest that maybe they are hurting individuals that do not deserve to be hurt - but the drugs alone might have the opposite effect

The "extend" part is fundamental before they can actually get to the "extinguish" stage: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Once Meta joins in, a new set of dynamics are going to develop between old fediverse uses and new meta/fediverse users. If Meta adopts an "EEE" approach such as the ones described in the article, there's going to be disruption in the user experience from which the fediverse might never fully recover

Edit: clarification on the last sentence, my main concern is that a growing niche protocol such as ActivityPub might be destined to irrelevancy after Meta is done with the Extend & Extinguish, similarly to what happened to XMPP

same :)

uh.... *this* what, exactly?

Every time I see this picture I cannot avoid to think to that time someone posted it in r/anarchocapitalism ironically captioned "the world if roads aren't built by the state"

It was only a matter of time before alt-right instances championing "free speech" started to pop out - this is the first one I hear about, I was expecting them to adopt Lemmy earlier

good post, upvocadoed

Our World in Data's source article

Also a couple of other studies I bookmarked some time ago about land usage/habitat loss and animal agriculture:

• Global habitat loss and extinction risk of terrestrial vertebrates under future land-use-change scenarios
• Ecosystem decay exacerbates biodiversity loss with habitat loss
• Land use for animal production in global change studies: Defining and characterizing a framework - I have yet to start to read it but a friend of mine who usually passes me some good sources said this one is quite interesting so I'll just post it here anyway

The first two Nature links are paywalled but I am sure I have the pdf laying around somewhere in my pc. I will link them as soon as I find them

Metadata is not a concern with family and close friends, which is what one should be using it with onl

Unfortunately this is the real world and whatsapp is used by two billion people for all kind of stuff: work chats, meme chats, business-to-client chats, local chats, news chats, even public chats which invite links are posted on Instagram pages and Facebook groups. Of course the app being very popular and, in some countries, almost impossible to leave behind ("how could I ever stop to use whatsapp? I have all my contacts and chats there!") makes a very fertile environment for spammers, scammers, stalkers, and all this kind of people whatsapp doesn't want on its platform. Cause they are annoying and dangerous for tech-illiterate people and boomers. So yeah at the end of the day, in a platform that is already compromised at its roots, moderation have a reason to exist even if the chat app is encrypted because it helps to flag actually annoying or dangerous accounts, and of course it helps big corps to keep their image clean - they don't want to be associated with spam or other shady stuff.

Also: assuming even the dumbest of the users would come to the conclusion that if you use a red button labeled "report", the message is going to be examined by some platform moderator to judge whether it is legitimate or not, why would you be so scared of a scenario where your chat partners have the ability to willingly send your plain text messages to WhatsApp/Facebook? If this is a possibility, isn't your chat with this person compromised already in first place? As they can willingly do whatever they want with the unencrypted content they receive anyway

Hmm, honestly, I don't understand what's weird about it. Of course if you report a message, it will be sent in plaintext to some moderator which then will have to evaluate the report. How would reports work otherwise? Among all the things that make whatsapp a compromised platform (obfuscated closed source code, constant push to enable google/apple cloud backups, recurring vulnerabilities being discovered every other month, being owned by literally Facebook, metadata being collected and kept at the disposal of Facebook), this seems the least relevant to me. I mean, I didn't expect their report system to work any differently. I definitely back your suggestion to move to Signal or some other alternative of course!

Someone mentioned it on Reddit and on Riot -I don't remember in what subreddit or room- while talking about federated alternatives to Reddit. Came here, saw the Github, lurked a bit. Looks an interesting project and I can't wait for federation to come!