Please put an NSFW tag on this. I was on the train and when I saw this I had to start furiously masterbating. Everyone else gave me strange looks and were saying things like “what the fuck” and “call the police”. I dropped my phone and everyone around me saw this image. Now there is a whole train of men masterbating together at this one image. This is all your fault, you could have prevented this if you had just tagged this post NSFW.
Honestly this could just be speaking to some niche desire to have a traditionally femme but still awful name as though it were assigned to you by your parents. Being like "Please, call me Millie, my real name is Mildred (ugh)" definitely lends an air of legitimacy to the whole thing. And it's a classic real world experience of many cis women.
That's just a guess though, more power to her either way, maybe she just thinks Mildred is a rad name. At the end of the day my opinion means jack and/or shit so do what you want.
The problem I have with Mastodon is you need people to get people. And if the people I personally know and follow just aren’t there, I don’t… have fun there. Lemmy is much easier because it doesn’t depend on personal people, but just communities. So even if there are few people, that’s still easy to get more people there because it doesn’t rely on many specific ones.
What the slippery slope did you just say to me you little strawman? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in appealing to emotion, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on loaded questions. I am trained in fallacy warfare and I’m the top debater in my entire high school. You are nothing to me but just another bandwagon. I will attack your character instead of engaging with your argument with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this site, mark my anecdotes. You think you can get away with making logically sound arguments over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak, I am contacting my secret network of trolls across the Internet and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for our fallacies, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call logic. You’re no fucking scotsman, kid. I can be ambiguous anywhere, anytime, and I can derail your discussion in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my false cause. Not only am I extensively trained in irrational argumentation, but I have access to the entire arsenals of comments sections that I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable argument off this continent. If only you could have known what unholy middle ground your little “logical” argument was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking burden of proof. But you couldn’t, you you didn’t, and now you’re begging the question, you black or white idiot. I will shit ad hominem all over you and you will appeal to nature in it. Tu quoque, kiddo.
I don’t want to see threads content on Lemmy anyways. They’re different platforms for different things. I didn’t go on reddit for twitter posts either.
my personal problem isn’t the fact that they know a lot about me, but the fact that they can sell that information to advertisers and make millions of dollars of something I didn’t give them willingly (sure, knowingly but not willingly)
Suppose a bad actor gets access to this information. Suppose this bad actor has the “political view” that people with your specific profile shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Suppose they have the network to get a small army of really big guys to stand in front of your house on election day. That’s a very superficial example on why you shouldn’t want companies to have any of your data unless it’s necessary.
Not just an example, it happens in black neighborhoods in the South every election. Usually at polling centers or churches instead of individual houses, but if they had the manpower they'd go to houses.
Anything more than necessary. Why do you want them to know? I wouldn't let a stranger follow me around, so why should I allow a tracking cookie on my browser? It's scary and offensive.
While that may be true, I don’t think understanding that companies are evil is enough to convince anyone to care about privacy. I’ve known corporations are evil for well over a decade but I only started caring about privacy at all a few weeks ago. the issue is that privacy feels so unnatainable to average people that it may as well be a myth. how can you even think about if your internet history is private when you don’t even know how to access internet history yourself? even if you do, it’s not like these companies gossip to your friends about your mundane secrets anyway, it’s just some faceless entity filing it away somewhere to probably be forgotten. that’s the perception I had at least, and I know I wasn’t the only one. what really changed my mind about privacy was being immersed in a community of people that cared about privacy and took time to show that it can be achievable and even convenient both to understand the forces and technologies at play and to actually live a more privacy focused life.
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