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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

Last weekā€™s thread

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • Florian Egermann@chaos.social
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    @froztbyte @jwz Not the biggest Apple fan, but you got to give them credit: with privacy changes in their OSs, they regularly expose all the predatory practices lots of social media companies are running on.

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        That has been Appleā€™s model for a long time. Privacy restrictions for thee in my walled garden, but I am the benevolent overlord that sees all.

        Still, in the current system Apple is the only thing holding back the floodgates? If there was no Apple in the committee to tell Google to go fuck themselves on their insane browser proposals weā€™d all be stuck in the all-encompassing Google walled garden. Itā€™s better for us to have two monarchs battling it out than one insane absolutist.

        I have no idea what could be done to break this walled bullshit altogether, though, much less what any of us individually could do. Like a completely open-source (both software and hardware) smartphone that is actually usable and multiple bank robberies to finance marketing and sales for it?

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          @fleg @froztbyte @jwz Yes, the ā€œOnlyā€ allowable SMS app which also happens to replace SMS with rich and secure instant messaging, as long as you own an Apple device.
          I believe Apple play the Privacy card as itā€™s their best excuse to reduce intraoperatively and maintain their lockin/walled garden under the disguise of ā€œwe care about your privacyā€ (and donā€™t want to compete on features, UX an especially price)