They spent a lot of money developing it, and now they have to justify that money. So they’re going to keep pushing it until some idiotic manager doesn’t have red numbers in their spreadsheet. Regardless of what people want.

I hate modern MBAs.

If I pay for a service and get ads, that service is dead to me forever.

Why are they removing people from planes leaving the country to detain them.

Wouldn’t it be better to just do the European tour and then stay in Europe at this point?

Because it’s just nazism. They want to imprison and harm non-white people, and they’re using “immigration” as an excuse.

Indeed, the vast majority on any social media platform does not engage. And when they do it’s mostly just liking content and not even replying. You see it on lemmy as well, with news articles often having few comments. And when they do it’s one or two top comments and a bunch of replies.

Over the years the only thing I can imagine is to add another anonymizing layer, where people can send in questions and the “best ones” are posted by a general/bot account. But that is something people much smarter than me have tried to figure out for years, so I have no idea how it would be implemented.

Is there a way to encourage people to post more? Because the main problem seems to be getting actual posts, not replies to them.

For example “nostupidquestions” only has a few questions a day, but there are 40k subscribers and 1500 people or so checking in every day. It has 4.2k posts and 170k comments.

“asklemmy” has more posts, fewers subscribers, and over 2k a day check in. 6k posts and 317k comments.

Yeah, this is why they’ve been spamming social media(including lemmy) with the whole “Kakistocracy” thing recently.

They really want you to think the idiots are in charge, that way you don’t try to dig deeper as the idiots chop off everything they see and some parts they’re told. Just look at the Librarian of Congress thing. People were making jokes about librarians, meanwhile she was basically in charge of defining DMCA and digital copyright.

1. It was proven years ago that the average consumer doesn’t give two shits about privacy on the internet.

2. The average consumer doesn’t use knowingly use LLMs/“AI” for anything beyond a replacement for a search engine.

I thought that was pretty obvious by now? Based on how much the companies are trying force feed people their latest version through constant notifications about assistants, assisted search, etc.

It’s one of the greatest flaws of relying on social media for market research: Tech-bros being overly loud about things like AI, NFTs, etc. trick companies into thinking more people are interested.

Now they’ve invested tons of money and people aren’t biting, so they’re constantly nagging people to engage so they can justify their expenditure.

It’s mostly just morons hacking and slashing with zero understanding. They literally just search for “climate”, “trans”, etc. to cut funding and remove access without checking anything, they just assume they’re correct.

And then when theyr’e called out they just lie and double down. Case in point, they refuse to admit they confused “transgenic” with “transgender” to the point where they made a post on the white house website: https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/03/yes-biden-spent-millions-on-transgender-animal-experiments/ (For reference, it was alzheimers research)

The real scary part is that there are people who have an inkling of what they’re doing, and you’re not hearing much about the things they’re changing.

Most of the adults did tell me to do better, but they also kept repeating that I had it better than they did. Which was partially true at the time depending on who said it, but they still messed things up and blame me for not fixing their mistakes.

And what does that story have to do with generational pressure?

Whether out in public or in private is better, depends on context.

Although it’s probably a bit beyond social media debate. When it comes down to “seeing a strangers body floating in the river” , “finding your sibling hanging in the next room” or “found at a kindergarten playground”.

We know, we learned the details about WW2. Our grandparents and great grandparents actually lived through that, and told us the stories.

All the adults told us it would be better for us than for them. While they fucked everything up and then blame us.

I think the biggest one by value is Meta with €1.2b. Although their revenue is in the $150b+ range, so not maxed out.

It started as showing off how new something was, and sometimes brand and/or price. And it turned into a fashion statement. Caps are probably the most famous for leaning into the trend and having giant gold and silver stickers covering the top of the visor.

Obligatory Key & Peele sketch

At this point the only reason they aren’t openly transferring money into their own accounts, is because they still have some fear of the international banking system.

Lufthansa and Air France might have some massive fines incoming.

Wait, it doesn’t appear to be the same within the EU.

Both the French and German EULA seems to say that if you alter a digital product, the digital product might be rendered unusable. Although my French and German is bad, so someone please double check.

Yeah, the amount of industrial machinery being controlled by ancient hardware would baffle a lot of people.

For a comparison people might relate to: There are ATMs running twenty year old versions of Windows XP.

Yeah and we should be glad they’re so dumb: It has a nice little “in your area” feature where you can see all the ones who signed up near you(no need to give them location data, you can specify the area and check several to hide your real one).

They of course made it so magas could show support. But in reality it’s literally a perfect way to find local business to boycoytt that you might not otherwise know was supporting evil.

You posted a youtube short link on lemmy? Yeah, that’s not going to go over well.

There’s a lot of tech literate people here, and from my experience many of them dislike short-form video content with sound. Especially when its from Alphabet, Meta, etc.