None of those have had much success in creating social networks that suck people in quite like the others

Not to say they don’t have their own problems, but the bulk of problems with social media come squarely from meta & twitter.

Meta and twitter cease to exist tomorrow and 99% of the issues are solved IMO

The fediverse is social media and it doesn’t have anything close to the same kinds of harmful patterns

You need to enter the Highland games with strength like that

Well this is somehow much, much worse than Google

For those who missed it, perplexity is the one happily powering truth social’s AI search with their logo front and centre

Remember your browser choices aren’t that of everyone you know. Many of them will happily continue with Chrome and may end up looking at a profile of yours or something—just not using it is really not gonna cut it

Even mechahitler thinks Israel has gone too far

This is partly Microsoft’s fault, for sure, but it’s also more of a function of how secureboot works. A Linux system using TPM backed FDE with secureboot enabled would have the same problem going the other way.

Secureboot prevents a lot of ways the TPM could be compromised, so as part of “securely” turning it off, it wipes the keys (otherwise those protections would be pointless, the first thing an attacker would do would be to turn off secureboot).