I never bought this privacy invasion thing. It just seems like a nice cause to rally behind, but from what I see most people don’t care. But yeah, sure, it’s nice to focus all emotional power and reduce a complex issue to one stock ticker, so it can be hated or publicly disagreed with in an economical way.

Sure, and the alternative to mac/windows is linux. Which I guess is actually unfair to linux. mastodon/etc are terrible, they will never be used by more than an unimportant minority of people.

As someone else from the EU, I disagree, and I wish our citizens would think independently and critically about individual issues, instead of repeating the same anti-x (x here being Facebook apparently) sentiments ad infinitum.

when I asked ChatGPT it told me it didn’t care, and when I asked ChatGPT to pretend to be an angry Facebook user it told me I just hate $META founder mark whalberg, so as you can see the anti-Facebook side is both shallow and uninformed. in the linked hackernoon post I explore this exciting new research

(also the mastodon one is just kinda funny because it has by far better technical discussions with more experts than hacker news has had for years, the vibe’s usually better, and dang can’t ban you for telling a race scientist to go fuck themselves)