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  • carbotect@vlemmy.nettoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Meta can rage farm Mastodon without controlling it
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    1 year ago

    Mastodon is a bubble. You have primarily highly educated, tech-literate nerds on that platform.

    Obviously people are more civil and polite there, than some raging uneducated losers and trolls on facebook.

    As the fediverse grows, the userbase will obviously lose this current isolated tech-wizard school vibe, and feel more like going into a random pub in a big city. Regardless if Meta joins the fediverse or not.

  • carbotect@vlemmy.nettoTechnology@lemmy.ml•Meta can rage farm Mastodon without controlling it
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    1 year ago

    When I used Facebook a few years ago, my feed was mostly memes, ads and personal posts from friends and family.

    Maybe I never got the ragebait political stuff, because everyone in my friend circle wasn’t keen on being the sad guy that publicly yells at clouds on facebook.

    Popular hashtags on Twitter and to some extend even on Mastodon, just makes you feel bad for the mental health of these perma-raging users tho.

    Political spaces in general on every social platform are just magnets for misery.

  • carbotect@vlemmy.nettoTechnology@beehaw.org•What if Everyone Knew Who You Really Were on the Internet
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    1 year ago

    American drivers licenses are basically just EU style ID cards. For new licenses you even need biometric data. State IDs and the “Passport Card” are (somewhat obscure) alternatives.

    Europeans only need to apply for ID cards at around the age, were the average American gets their driver’s license.

    A young American adult is probably almost just as identifiable by their government, as a young European adult would be by theirs.

    Seeing regulations like the REAL ID act, I would say that America is headed towards more identification, rather than less.