How does one pronounce le$bian?
tiktok
I automatically have zero respect for anyone using that chinese spyware trash.
Made in china, under complete control of ccp as every big company in china is. It is very unfortunate that younger generation is essentially being raised by tiktok and its algorithm.
Facebook is bad, no doubts about that, it’s also unavoidable as the only social media for most people, and it’s also not fun for most people. Tiktok on the other hand is interesting, it’s captivating, the algorithm tailors it to you, microdoses you with dopamine. I’m sure that same algorithm can be, if desired, used to push pro-china/pro-russia/anti-west narratives to varying degrees of subtlety, tailor-made to each user, to further destabilize certain countries, united states included.
Social media is dangerous, social media controlled by a potential enemy is dangerous on a whole another level.
This right here is the answer.
Yes, we know that our government has done shitty, crazy things to try to control people and they probably aren’t above that today.
They do not have it in their best interest to weaken their own country though. A potentially hostile foreign government does.
I mean, everyone uses it so I hope not. We’ll see I guess.
Oh no, telling people that the US isn’t the greatest country in the world, the horror!
Can’t stand it. Censoring yourself so some random ass company can make more ad revenue.
Fuck that.
Is the exploding heads instance still alive? There you had some very different opinions.
Fun fact: until not too long ago there was a language filter built right into Lemmy’s source code.
I actually dig it a bit. They’re not really censoring themselves, they’re still talking about corn and seggs just in a way the app doesn’t yet recognize. Take that advertisers!
Yeah, they’re literally bypassing being censored. They’re continuing to talk about the shit that the company doesn’t want them to. It’s the opposite of what people are bitching about.
The term “ungood” also lets you talk about bad things but that doesn’t make it not newspeak. The corporate sanitizing and infantilizing of speech is not a good thing. It’s not the teen’s problem though, it’s the corporations and their desire for a sanitized public square they can plaster ads over.
Honestly, a tiktokker and a 4channer sound like the perfect couple, at least from the POV as an outside observar. grabs popcorn
Anyone old enough to remember Ren and Stimpy and the episode where they found corn in the dresser? I didn’t realize it was porn…and now porn is actually called corn. I’m too fucking old.
LMFAO, old ass coomers in this thread complaining when kids try to get around censorship
The kids are creating corporate influenced newspeak that infantilizes serious topics instead of moving to a platform without censorship. Teen slang is great when it comes up naturally instead of because advertisers want to sanitize our thoughts so we only think about consuming products.
I loved Ren and Stimpy but I don’t remember whatever episode you’re talking about.
Do you remember the episode where Ren got split into the two opposite sides of his personality? His evil side, and his indifferent side.