Of all the bad things that social media has brought us, the worst is making stupid people feel intelligent because other stupid people agree with them.

-Abraham Lincoln

Reading comprehension seems to be a problem for both of you.

I mean, I can understand each of you pretty easily here, but neither one of you seems to be able to do that.

It’s probably just emotions getting in the way, though, I suppose. Sometimes Reddit arguments happen on Lemmy… wel, more often lately

Brother, I hope so.

I feel like this is something the autistic brain notices a lot, and may regular folks not so much.

What a small-balls thing to say.

The horror of acceptance for others. Oh my god, please make it stop. /s

A pedantic critique that offers nothing to the conversation

Well, I think you’re saying those are things that you can’t do. And thats fine, but a lot if poeple need to take ownership of what they can do and figure out how to cooperate appropriately to get some things done.

New leaders need to emerge thats true, but they will need support as well in various ways.

But all those people will all have to take ownership for making this stop and figure out how to fight back.

I get safety/security is a concern, but things are in a circumstance now where you will probably get fucked either way.

As long as everyone keeps waiting for someone else to do something real, youre all screwed.

Until people like you are thinking “It’s gonna have to be me” then the situation will not likely improve.

we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes

Of course he is, he benefitted from it. America ain’t coming back until the people take it back, and that’s gonna be done the hard way.

Yes. I have a hard no for participating willingly in expansion of mass surveillance, censorship and propaganda.

And that’s ultimately what this move supports. It was no surprise to find out all the shady aspects following the announcement, but I had already burned Discord out of my life the day they announced their genius idea.

Its my enshittification red line. I will quit your product without hesitation and find another way. I will never go back

Discord gets paid for user’s data and they just lost a ton of users. That’s why they are “cutting ties” with Persona.

I suspect its more of a temporary reaction and they will reframe this age-verification and the related data collection and try again later.

Yep. Its wasn’t even a question

Yeah, its not a viable option for everyone. Clandestine methods are an option.

In France, they light things on fire.

I think it going to be folks like you, who choose to say “Fuck it, we ball”, rather than get up and go to work.

Or someone whose fam was kidnapped or murdered.

Its gonna pop off.