Which is worse? Target making their pathetic attempt to appear like they give a damn about oppressed groups or scrambling to appease nazis who worship a ‘businessman’?
Wouldn’t taking money from those filthy groomers (oh ye gods I hate that word from a party of child rapists) by tricking them into thinking they care be a good thing?
People are giving corporations two options, support Pride and get criticized by everyone or don’t, and then they’re acting surprised that corporations choose the option most likely to make them more money.
There’s no evidence to support the idea that Target stopped stocking Pride merch in some of its stores because of criticism from ‘everyone.’ It was because in certain parts of the country unhinged right wing freaks were attacking employees and trashing displays. Rather than spend the money to increase security in those areas and support their employees being harassed by violent bigots, they decided to just let the violent bigots win.
On the one hand, I agree that corporate exploitation of Pride (like corporate exploitation of most things in general) is pretty gross.
On the other, it’s kinda heartening in a weird way when these companies see LGBTQ+ people the same way they see everyone else. Granted, what they see them as is resources to be exploited and bled dry and then thrown away, but hey, to be honest, that’s an improvement over how they used to see us.
Seriously. The equal buns made me groan, but growing up it was so marginalized that I’m still just happy for acceptance and visibility. Plus, there’s still lots of kids growing up with families who aren’t accepting or in areas like that and seeing these ads can help, even if pandering.
Just a reminder that they do this because SO many dumb motherfuckers lap this shit up. These are billion- (trillion-?)dollar corporations, they wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t profitable.
If you don’t like being pandered to, stop supporting companies that do it… except then that would be seen as anti-LGBTQ, so good luck with that strategy!
The issue there is that we still live in a capitalist hellscape, and artists need to make money to survive. Until we have a situation where artists can make art and not worry about where their rent (yes, fuck landlords) or food, they will need to be able to make a living somehow.
You don’t have to do ANYthing in order to have copyright on your images.
That is standard throughout the Berne convention & has been for decades.
Registering makes court-cases easier to win, but having copyright on one’s renditions isn’t in any way requiring that one have registered anything with anybody.
On principal I agree, but have you thought about how artists are to make a living? It is already hard now, so how should they make money in the future?
love the mission and the message, but if i know anything about how things like this go, what it is, is about to die
EDIT: yeah, their about page says they “filter out generative AI images” without even mentioning how. never mind that with the rate the AI field is advancing, no algorithm for doing that works for more than a couple of months. no word at all on how or even if the photos users upload are going to be protected from scraping.
i hate to be a cynic, i do, and i can’t wait for this to age poorly but $20 says the website won’t even last a year
They don’t appear to even have basic protections against ai. They didn’t even get rid of the context menu to download them, and the app shows up in google image search which means google has the thumbnails. It’s a losing battle, if you can see it so can ai, but they could at least but a few speed bumps.
they just send a OTP to your email with the idea that you should be keeping your email secure (and that email providers are more secure than they can be)
Given how common it is for people to use the ‘reset password’ link for this exact purpose, it does make it seem kinda redundant to even implement passwords on many services to begin with.
It also has an expensive back end and no plans for any kind of monetization, so it's dead in the water from that side too. The moment they're successful they're broke.
How creating an account in yet another centralized social media app is going to solve things? Policy might be anti AI now, but what happens if Cara get’s sold and the new company decides to change it? Don’t get me wrong is good that options are popping out to give some fair market share to Meta, but how is Cara sustainable in the long run?
A big difference is that, instead of leaving all content behind because it was only hosted there, you still have a lot of content as only a piece of the federated content disappears (or defederates, or paywalls, w/e)
It’s not just about the content posted by individuals though. The community and relationships built on a centralized platform are also at risk to a much greater degree than they would be on federated social media.
mashable.com
Hot