Sean

@notnotmike @yogthos the addictive characteristic of Tiktok isn’t about a massive amount of quality, but quantity hidden among mid quality content. Just all grade-A content wouldn’t set off the dopamine that getting dud, after dud, after dud, jackpot, dud again, dud, dud, dud, dud, maybe jackpot no, dud, dud, dud… is a clear path to dopamine

Much like a slot machine, the algorithm can intersperse jackpot and near jackpot amongst mostly dud content that makes it very addictive.

@FlorianSimon
I can read the article without any ads. I’m using Brave browser on my Android phone. Is it that they used to be clogged with ads, like articles were broken up across 16 pages with a ad in between each page? That might have been the case for Cracked awhile ago but doesn’t seem to be the case now.

cc: @shalafi

@Aatube @[email protected] @1984 @mindlight @[email protected]
The private key doesn’t need to be memorized, it stays saved on the device that the client software is on, allowing the user to integrate mobile device’s biometric reader (fingerprint/face/iris/whatever) to confirm identity, or use security key, there are already different ways to implement it that doesn’t require pw memorization.

I’ve got a long unmemorizable string for Firefox sync, Brave, Proton Mail/Pass, it’s still more secure than pw memorized

@Aatube @[email protected] @1984 @mindlight @[email protected]
Couldn’t it be like public-private keys such PGP protocols, where the users have the private key and the platforms have the public key? It’s seems quite good privacy, some would even say it’s “pretty good privacy”.

@PlasticPigeon I can reply on Lemmy with Mastodon (with Mastodon character limit), and never tried to comment on pixelfed or peertube, but Beehaw can interact with all lemmy and kbin. I primarily use Mastodon and a secondarily Beehaw.

@PlasticPigeon
I have a Mastodon account, and a Beehaw (more civil version of Lemmy, more moderation, no downvoting), and i have no pixelfed or peertube (fediverse YouTube) accounts and yet I can access any account/community/hashtag from any service by either of my accounts. Mastodon has a character limit that beehaw/lemmy doesn’t but Mastodon is about following individuals while lemmy is about subreddit/community/magazine/etc that anyone can participate in.

@Doomsider @wlh0242
Just like Hitler, Trump never got a majority of popular votes

@dingus @Bipta
Are gen z likely to be uniformly iPhone users?

That’s like the most conformist thing that I have ever heard. The study results are that 21%(F) 25%(M) find having an android phone is a green flag in their partner, while 7%(F) 6%(M) have it as a red flag, so it’s not that bad as far android/iPhone is concerned.

@alignedchaos @mister_monster Republican House blocked what now?

You mean Senator Mitch “whaddya do if another justice needed to be appointed to fill a vacancy in an election year with Trump in office? {giggle to himself} I’d fill it” McConnell somehow used the Democratic held House in '20 to fill RBG’s seat with the help of Republican minority?

https://youtu.be/AkDV1sqJFdw?si=PDBzvnDAOotAM3wG

@beteljuice @IHaveTwoCows

Just putting this out there:

David Duke denies that he’s an antisemite, racist, or bigot.

The individual doesn’t need to identify and tell others that they are fascist to be objectively fascist. Or should we take the word of David Duke that his bigoted beliefs aren’t bigoted because he doesn’t recognize them to be bigoted beliefs?

@SoylentBlake @maniajack direct democracy isn’t anywhere close to a panacea and doesn’t address the neoliberal mindvirus that you identify as the root cause. Individuals voting on legislation won’t be much better than the representative “democracy” we have now, with most of the adult population determining their vote on tribalism not any effort to take a deep dive understanding in the content of the legislation. We’d end up at Idiocracy before fascism but that’s a mob of dictators instead of one

@michaelrose @booty Biden should have, for the good of the party and nation, step aside and have announced he wasn’t going to run for reelection. With a lively primary, the narrative in news cycle would be dominated by a bunch of Democrats saying why their vision was better riffing off of Biden’s accomplishment (as smell as they were) and contrasting against GOP’s criminal conspiracies and apologists for criminals. Instead we will have a return of hide-a-Biden strategy but no pandemic