Beej Jorgensen

The USGS has renamed “jadeite” to “jate”.

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I agree.

For sure. Any social media company that says they’re pro free speech is just posturing at best. They have full dictator control of their systems.

Yes. I don’t have any guaranteed speech rights on Facebook.

I agree with you, but true free speech also gives Facebook the right to choose its own themes. I’d vote with my feet on this one, but I already abandoned Facebook years ago.

I can’t, unfortunately. I still have an old Smart TV that isn’t too offensive and doesn’t show me ads. If it starts showing me ads sometime, then it’s gone. But I’m not really a videophile and I’ll watch shows on anything so I haven’t really looked at what’s better, only at what’s cheapest. I do hear it can be tricky because the commercial displays are meant to be brighter than TVs and maybe it can be hard to get them dialed in the way you want.

Last I looked, we could still buy commercial displays. They’re dumb TVs. They cost more, of course.

If the President controls the Press, and arguably Trump does, the US is in big trouble. It’s grim.

And yes, we can do all that stuff to fix it, but let’s be honest: we (as a country) are not going to.

The one thing I like with Lemmy and Mastodon (and decentralized in general) is that there’s no economic incentive to push echo chamber/inflammatory stuff. Doesn’t mean it can’t be there, of course, but at least there’s no one making more money by pushing it in my face. My feeds are tame and boring compared to those on “algorithmic” social media. And that’s how I like it. :)