mexico proved this is true and now they have shienbaum, while our criticism gave us harris and trump

i've been dragging my feet about getting off firefox before it enshitifies too much and my bookmarks is a big part of it since i rely on syncing between all my devices, but now i know that alternatives exist; thanks for that.

did that and you're still tracked.

switching to windows and chrome seems to be the only thing that makes server side tracking hiccup, but only for a while.

i can't think of anything more american. lol

i bet they get tariff-ed or sanctioned out of existence for daring. lol

we're rule by momcorp. lol

it's maddening how people in the continent were so easily misled, but then i look at trump in the whitehouse and remember that we're all easily hack-able.

and now it's going away...

it's al rumored that maxwell is hiding there as well. lol

the most attention i get is banned or comments removed from communities & instances i had never seen nor heard of and i only become aware of their existence when i look at the modlogs. lol

it especially tickles me pink when they remove comments for misinformation even though it's literally the official statement from official sources like the freedom of information act. lmao

I do think it is fairly amusing that we have these alternative front-ends and server software that comes very opinionated about what a user should see and interact with, and then we have the oft-maligned Lemmy devs who just release a software for people to do with as they please, no block lists, no censors. At least, as far as I’m aware.

I don’t know the Lemmy devs, nor do I know their views, or politics, or whatever, but it seems to me like they at least think that people should be able to access information and make up their own opinions. The same couldn’t be said for Tesseract, or seemingly Piefed?

the lemmy devs are communists and giving people the access to self education is one of communism's foundational tenets.

i suspect that the communist influence is the reason why things like tesseract exist -- i know for a fact that it's definitely true of piefed whose creator said as much in an interview.

in spain, you're automatically added to a watch list if you publicly use a pixel because its capable of running graphene. lol

ever since getting my own diagnosis, it's been fascinating to me how many core concepts that either define or decry neurodivergency are aligned with socialist movements.

these ones stuck out to me as i was reading your response:

and a lot of opportunists intentionally add noise and misinformation/divisive rhetoric because informed group coordination scares them for some reason.

coordination through practiced collectivism is at the heart of socialism and marxists/socialist/humanist thinkers fo the past have spent a significant amount of effort in explaining how/why opportunists behave in this manner.

i’d say escaping information bubbles is the same kind of experience of finding something you didn’t know was there, because our brains make sense of the world regardless of the things we don’t know we aren’t seeing.

the growing acceptance of the palestinian genocides proved how big information bubbles in the west can grow and how easily they can be popped .... and restored

easy to get silo’d into some local-eco-niche or another, and apes going to do ape brain fighting cause we refuse to recognize how bad our ape brains generally are in how we define and grow into ourselves along with those around us

witnessing the people in the country next door (mexico) do honest-to-god protests that ended up giving them a socialist leaning government that has been actively and quantitatively improving thier lives is a mindfuck when you consider american ape brains fighting to defend ineffective no-kings "pep rallies" and reinforcing a government that's actively genociding multiple others around the world.

i feel like people need a new ‘basic education’ around systems and framing specifically, just because most of our experience is defined by these complex dynamics and interactions. although i think a lot of this unsettles some people because we’re very hackable as a species.

our education system is captured by the hands of people who understand how hackable we are and you can see how unsettling it is to them in unhinged rants like marco rubio's recent manifesto about "communists" in our shores.