Didn't I say for like 2 years now that even the fediverse can be "monetized" and go downhill fast? Look help.instagram.com/51523043730… - Facebook and Zucky are on a mission to prove me just right.
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Fun! When I scream and scream and scream that eventually trade ruins everything, and nothing escapes...some people think I exaggerate. 'alright...
So Facebook and Instagram do not let you see any page/profile even if they are public, without you logging in:
Now Twitter does the same (although they say it is "temporary"....like the special 3 day military operation in Ukraine. Ok):
And Reddit will basically not allow 3rd parties to access the content so you are stuck with the terrible Reddit website/app.
Now Youtube is cracking down on services like Invidious to make sure no one accesses Youtube unless they use the official website/app. And Nitter/Bibliogram/Teddit and the like, that were interfaces for the above ad networks, will probably either stop working or be a pain in the ass to keep them working.
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So Facebook and Instagram do not let you see any page/profile even if they are public, without you logging in:
Now Twitter does the same (although they say it is "temporary"....like the special 3 day military operation in Ukraine. Ok):
And Reddit will basically not allow 3rd parties to access the content so you are stuck with the terrible Reddit website/app.
Now Youtube is cracking down on services like Invidious to make sure no one accesses Youtube unless they use the official website/app. And Nitter/Bibliogram/Teddit and the like, that were interfaces for the above ad networks, will probably either stop working or be a pain in the ass to keep them working.
Let's see how this evolves, but probably we will have to give up ytb.trom.tf, bird.trom.tf and rdt.trom.tf. And basically people should forget about Twitter and move to the fediverse. Forget about Reddit entirely and not even move anywhere else, do something else with their life. As for youtube the issue is that they completely own the video space, so moving to Peertube is never going to be an option in terms of finding videos to watch. So I highly recommend the amazing FreeTube freetubeapp.io/ - that runs locally and it seems to be a long term robust solution. It makes youtube a video platform and not an ad platform.
These companies do not provide social networks or video platforms, they may partially provide that but in truth they are ad networks. Like a Mall that has benches, fake palm trees and recreational areas. The Mall's main purpose is to sell you shit, not for you to go there and meet with your friends and relax. Therefore these companies will do all they can to restrict the content that OTHERS have created on their platforms, so that you "go to their Mall" to watch those ads, and for them to collect your data, and grab your currency.
So, you know, I and Sasha try to live together on this planet. We've been trying that for the past 3 years. Documents and documents and documents, and endless documents. You have no clue how much shit we've been through. And yet, still no fix for it. I will make a big post about this when (miraculously) it will be partially solved, because there seem to be no "full fix" for it.
But, there are TWO major realizations overall, so far:
ONE.
This system is not working!
All of these bullshit jobs that we have, the paper world, are irrelevant. We went to so many institutions, to lawyers, to this and that. Sasha talks to 3 lawyers at once now. And for the past 3 years no one provided us with a clear answer as to what we can do to "stay together". We bumped our heads into so many walls.
And that's the illusion: it seems like this system works, but in fact the suffering and fuckery is dispersed to the you and the me. To everyone. We suffer, we try to fix our issues, all ourselves. The struggle is for us, the people. While these institutions that are in
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So, you know, I and Sasha try to live together on this planet. We've been trying that for the past 3 years. Documents and documents and documents, and endless documents. You have no clue how much shit we've been through. And yet, still no fix for it. I will make a big post about this when (miraculously) it will be partially solved, because there seem to be no "full fix" for it.
But, there are TWO major realizations overall, so far:
ONE.
This system is not working!
All of these bullshit jobs that we have, the paper world, are irrelevant. We went to so many institutions, to lawyers, to this and that. Sasha talks to 3 lawyers at once now. And for the past 3 years no one provided us with a clear answer as to what we can do to "stay together". We bumped our heads into so many walls.
And that's the illusion: it seems like this system works, but in fact the suffering and fuckery is dispersed to the you and the me. To everyone. We suffer, we try to fix our issues, all ourselves. The struggle is for us, the people. While these institutions that are in place dealing with the paperwork, are there mostly for the facade. Even for me who had very low expectations from this fuckery, it is quite shocking how pointless these institutions are. Trust me, several times these lawyers and paper people had to GOOGLE when we asked them some "legal advice". GOOGLE!?
TWO.
It's all about that trade!
You know how much I bitch about this trade based society and say that almost everything revolves around it...The fact that Sasha could easily get papers if I were to have a well paid job, tells you so clearly that ALL it matters in this world is for you to be a player in the trade game. That's all they care. Not love, not kindness, not smartness, not this, not that. NO. All it matters is if you can trade, be part of the trade system.
Our suffering is in fact a direct proof that trade is the origin of most problems. Go argue with me about that now! :P Because it is so in everyone's faces, that only the normal ones who adapted to the smell of shit, do not realize that they pooped themselves. And everyone else did as well.
Watta hell man. This is one fuckin prison on Earth. Decent humans must be free to go around and live wherever they want with whom they want. I was actually shocked when you said that even dancing in the marriage ritual isn't enough to get out of this paper hell. Apparently, in this society the decent human beings = those ones who can trade themselves till they die and no way around. Yeah, suuure.. huh
I feel sorry for the both of you for having to go through this much trouble, and all for just being able to stay together in one place?! What a fucked up society we live in, all these zombies seem to care about is papers, papers and papers... And also money probably.
haha that's nothing. Try to open a business by trading with another country, for example with a country outside the European Union. It's just a nightmare. many 'specialists' can't cope with the requirements, certificates, etc., hiring lawyers and special additional companies for the wholesaler to buy something abroad. Selective border checks can bury you forever. This is how a large number of companies operate - until the first inspection.😐
I see an increase in bot registrations tries for our Friendica. This is getting more and more of an issue. Read this article krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/se… to see how easy it is to create hundreds of fake accounts per minute and spam the fediverse...
We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”
This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.
Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about our Matrix that is perhaps already hosting a bun
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I see an increase in bot registrations tries for our Friendica. This is getting more and more of an issue. Read this article krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/se… to see how easy it is to create hundreds of fake accounts per minute and spam the fediverse...
We suddenly went from like three registrations per minute to 900 a minute,” Chaput said. “There was nothing in the Mastodon software to detect that activity, and the protocol is not designed to handle this.”
This is very worrying especially with the rise of these "AI" language models that can make it nearly impossible to detect these spambots.
Our Friendica and Peertube will still be ok since they require manual approval and everyone is forced to explain why they want to join, so I can filter out most of the bots. But our Nextcloud and Matrix are going to be flooded. I am worried about our Matrix that is perhaps already hosting a bunch of these bots and eventually we may be defederated from the greater matrix network.
I am afraid that it is going to become hellish for us who host these services because we do not have the resources and manpower to deal with this.
This looks ugly.
And it is, of course, another side effect of the trade-society we live in. Where people need to trade in order to survive, and over time that mutates into a craze of trades where people are not just struggling to survive, but want endless shit. And thus, they cut forests, and make spambots, and pollute, and deceive, and lie, and all of that.
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I wonder what's the motivation behind these bots? I bet it's not the incentive for humans to trade, and thus consume, and thus want more, and thus aquire more, and thus steal, and thus deceive, and thus create these bots...
Mindblowing. It will only continue to increase, I assume. The internet becomes more and more about advertisment, promotion and selling shit now. Bots can be very effective in that regard and other scams of course.
Same way trade pushed humans to consume forests, and mountains of resources, and other creatures to deplete populations, and in the process create a lot of waste, the internet is now the new territory of exploitation. Very predictable when you understand how the force of trade operates and incentivizes humans. Terrible.
Abso-fuckin-lutely. Just to imagine amount of the resources and energy are spent to support them bots, just scamming and advertising. Insane! What a fucking waste..
@esh How do you define trade again? For me it about energy/matter, socioeconomic status, power, resources, ... inequality. And trade is just a means for that.
Trade is one the method to distribute scarce resources between people, I would say. It has played a defining role in human societies evolution. But unfortunately, at current moment it became a global foundation and most influencing force affecting people lives and behavior. Even if at this level of development we can provide more and more resources in abundance for all people, it still has to be profitable, to be traded to keep the system work. And I would argue that status, power and inequality, all are actually by-products of trade. Artifitial limits, exagerrated marketing, false values are also helping in creation inequality or such concepts like "status", which is used mainly to trade even more "deluxe" stuff to obtain those "statuses". An entire TROM project, which is led by @Tio is about that actually, how trade might be the origin of the most problems humanity faces nowadays and what are the alternative methods of distribution (like trade-free) that may be applied to societies to make them saner and more sustainable.
This is a very long but very good video about why these recent AI hype is a craze "The AI Mind Virus" ytb.trom.tf/watch?v=3oS9UG1U2N…
The fear we should fear is not some super-intelligent AI, but what this trade-based society pushes people to do with these tools: more scams, more fake shit, more nonsense content, more hype, selling more shit and so forth.
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I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".
Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.
So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.
Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap
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I have uploaded the trailer to our old Facebook page too, and our Youtube channel. Just because it is a very rare evet so in case anyone still follow us there. Let me tell you....Facebook is such a clusterfuck. I already knew that but I did not get to interact with it for a long time now. To simply add a video and a description is a mess. A million buttons, a million popups, a million boxes. Promotions and ads everywhere, and all of the crap. If people call that a "social network" they might as well call a Mall a "family home".
Friendica compared to Facebook is haven on earth. A pure social network.
So after I uploaded the trailer on FB and clicked "publish" the post popup disappeared and I was lost. I waited for like 10 minutes and I wanted to post again because I could not find that post....to then see that it was posted after those 10 minutes out of the blue. Took a while and no notification....so terrible.
Youtube is also a mess. An ad-video-platform where the focus is on clicks, views, how to monetize, where to put the ads, how to engage and all of this crap. I added a few subtitles to our trailer and it was like 5-6 clicks to add a single one, compared to 2 clicks on Peertube.
Again, Peertube is haven on earth, or the digital space. A simple and efficient VIDEO PLATFORM.
And that's how we can see how trade has a powerful and bad influence. If a social network or a video platform engages in trades with its users (data trade, attention trade, currency trade) then those platforms will never remain that, they will metamorphose into bazaars. Marketplaces.
Thank fuck that we now have our own social network and video platform, and they all connect with the greater fediverse. I LOVE that I can post our documentary on Peertube and not fear any Youtube BS rules. SO awesome!
Let me tell you that working on TROM II and having to find specific videos about say some tech, some places, etc. on youtube to grab some footage, was a complete misery. Not only that Youtube is full of crap, like entirely full of garbage videos created for views, many times by automated software, but Youtube also pushes these short videos they originally call "shorts".
Overall it was easier and saner 10 years ago when I made the first TROM to find footage. Today, with all of the "smartphones" and "4k 8k" kkk, you can barely find real and good quality footage.
From my tests these "AI"s are terrible. Very wrong, fed from the same BS advertising and SEO nonsense....
It is true search engines are ad-driven search engines. Everyone is competing to have their own shit rank high to get more clicks, more views, more currency.
Youtube channels like MrBeast and his "philanthropy" are a sign of a failed society from all perspectives. Sure, he at times helps some people, but the way it is done is a sort of a freak show. Get those views, be shocking, extreme, wasteful, clickbaity. Inject ads, promote bullshit, and mix it all up with mostly retarded videos.
Let's give money to people by making them do retarded and dangerous and uncomfortable things, and film them. Let's help others by making videos about their suffering and getting tons of money from ads. Perverse.
Anyway, I wanted to briefly rant about this utter disgrace.
I want to boost this but I'm hesitant to because of how explosively a lot of leftists react to the r word 😅 I agree with everything else completely though, of course
@futureisfoss because that's the neo-leftist model "we don't care if you actually fight for progressive causes, just that you use the popularly accepted nomenclature at all times." @tio
Yeah, i got mixed feeling about him. Of course his videos are made in are quite retarded and dumb manner. On the other hand he at least helps someone. Compare to 99% of others in similar to him position. But the way his business model based on poor people is really perverse :( Yet he is hero to many, bcs he helps others. But would he helped others if it wouldn't be possible to earn a lot of money from that ? That the question. In any case the whole situation is fucked up.
Musk, Bezos, Gates and others help poor people too at times. But this doesn't feel right to me, to profit so much on one hand and promote complete BS, and destroy and all that, while you help a little here and there. And it gives people the wrong impression about these acts - like "Wow look these youtubers and billionaires are solving many problems quicker and better than governments or other nonprofits". Just because these celebrities are very loud.
So I'd say it is great that the guy helps some people, and despicable that it has to be transformed into a "show", littered with ads and other retarded content. Not entirely his fault, since that's how this society "works".
There is this massive myth on a global scale, almost like a huge conspiracy, that humans are predisposed to being like this or like that. Predisposed to becoming depressed, ADHD is an illness, sexual orientation is inborn, violence can be detected in one's brain, and so forth.
This notion that humans have a certain biology and their behavior is based on that.
False.
From sexuality to mental disorders, violence or anything else. There are no genes, no chemicals, nothing biological that can predict any such behaviors. None.
We should start to abolish this mentality. This approach is succulently pushed by companies who sell the "miracle" drugs, and everyone is hypnotized by the cattle-society practice: treat humans like they are on a conveyor belt. Feel angry, sad, and all that? Well probably you have a "disease". Take this pill! Bye!
Anyway. Here is a recent publication by Joanna Moncrieff that debunks the myth of the "chemical imbalance" of depression. And here a more general overview of how depression cannot be linked to any bio-chemical marker.
Some very important quotes from this group of proper scientists that have the dignity and courage to remain scientists:
I have shown that family, twin, adoption, and molecular genetic studies have failed to provide scientifically valid evidence that genes play a role in causing depression. Combined with the recent findings by Moncrieff and colleagues that serotonin is not associated with depression, the idea of MD as a medical condition is in serious trouble.
To understand the true causes of depression, we must focus on family (including abuse and trauma), social, and political environments, including racial, gender, class, and other types of oppression/discrimination. We must address people’s increasing social isolation and disconnection from each other, lack of meaning and purpose, consumerism, and fears of present or future calamities such as pandemics, climate change, and nuclear war. The idea of depression as a medical/genetic condition must be reevaluated, and non-medical prevention and intervention strategies should be promoted.
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“suffering as being rooted in individual rather than social causes, leading individuals to think that it is them rather than the economic and social system in which they live that is at fault and in need of reform.
It is this trade-based society that makes humans sad, depressed, angry, demotivated and so forth. FIX SOCIETY!
American's have been lied to about so much. And everybody lies to us. Now we find that we never could trust the pharmaceutical companies. Thank God for computers. Had it not been for them we never would have recognized that the USA is as good an example of a third world country as any other.
My mobile phone is 7 years old, but works just fine. 2k screen, waterproof, whateverthefuck. My electric scooter is 8 years old. 1000W, range just about 12KM. But works fine. I may change the battery to double/triple the range. I have a 10 year old Windows tablet with TROMjaro. Works great. My headphones are some 4 years old. My laptop probably 6 years old!?
While I was watching some random videos about electric scooters (to fix something on my own), and realizing that they have become a thing now, I saw many people referring to 2-3 years old scooters as OLD and "of course is OLD so it does not work anymore". I saw that with phones too....nowadays a 3 year old phone seems ancient.
This is bullshit and it is a consequence of the trade system we live under, where "new" models, most of the time almost identical with previous ones, have to be released. Combine that with planned and perceived obsolescence and you got yourself the perfect waste-system.
So yeah...I think the newest gadget in my room is a few years old. We should not have to replace our stuff every year
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My mobile phone is 7 years old, but works just fine. 2k screen, waterproof, whateverthefuck. My electric scooter is 8 years old. 1000W, range just about 12KM. But works fine. I may change the battery to double/triple the range. I have a 10 year old Windows tablet with TROMjaro. Works great. My headphones are some 4 years old. My laptop probably 6 years old!?
While I was watching some random videos about electric scooters (to fix something on my own), and realizing that they have become a thing now, I saw many people referring to 2-3 years old scooters as OLD and "of course is OLD so it does not work anymore". I saw that with phones too....nowadays a 3 year old phone seems ancient.
This is bullshit and it is a consequence of the trade system we live under, where "new" models, most of the time almost identical with previous ones, have to be released. Combine that with planned and perceived obsolescence and you got yourself the perfect waste-system.
So yeah...I think the newest gadget in my room is a few years old. We should not have to replace our stuff every year or two. This is insanity! Creates so much waste...
If you come a day later to work, your "boss" will be really angry and may fire you. If your "boss" pays you a day later, is all fine. #TradeRuinsEverything #tromlive
This one is not a direct consequence of trading itself, the problem here is that contracts do mention the days you have to work, but not the day you will get paid.
I wish you were right. But you are not. There are countless of examples that I personally know, where it states in the contract when you have to be paid, and they were not. So often it is tiring. And it is a consequence of trade since it makes humans prioritize their own selves, so those "bosses" do not care much about their "slaves".
Also, in the contract it is mentioned you need to work only 8h a day, but many times you work more than that.
All of these agreements, written or verbal, will never be respected simply because the trade relationship between the "boss" and the "worker" is imbalanced towards the "boss" who has a lot more power.
And stuff like this is why I'm so thankful for working in a team and having a union. My team covers in case of emergency leave and my union makes sure they paycheck isn't late
That's good. I wonder tho how wide-spread and overall efficient these "unions" are. On top of that, it is quite concerning that we need them in the first place, it says a lot about the abuse of power in a trade society.
Yeah watch this documentary....what we are talking about for years now, how trade fucks things up. It is not just about money, money is just a form of trade. Likes, shares, comments, can be traded for products. #TradeRuinsEverything
Kids nowadays are growing up in an even more fucked up society. We are FoCkEd. #tromlive
Fake Famous is a 2021 documentary film directed by Nick Bilton. It is a social experiment involving three non-famous people who attempt to become social media influencers by “faking” fame.
Fake Famous is a 2021 documentary film directed by Nick Bilton. It is a social experiment involving three non-famous people who attempt to become social media influencers by "faking" fame.
I cannot trust any company. Period. It is like trusting Coca-Cola to do research on the effects of sugar on health. Any company is entangled with whatever they are selling. This entanglement is too strong. Even if there are any companies that seem to be more fair, in the long term they will fuck things up. I've seen this countless of times. Also, overall looking at the entire world-wide society, even if you may get a few more "fair" companies, overall most are corrupted and fucked up.
So yeah, companies should not even exist in a saner society. We should have organizations that do things. Plant trees, make computers, software, whatever. Like we showcase here. But no trade involved.
This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from
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This is a show from a few days ago from the little town I live in:
It used to be this:
So messy.
Great! It seems that the world is starting to replace fireworks shows with drone shows. No more noise pollution, smoke, waste from the burned fireworks, and so forth. Sounds much much better!
Here's a more advanced and cool example:
But I am concerned they will use them to also display some ads, like brands and promote shit...
Oh wait, they already do it!
FUCK.
Above Sydney so that everyone can see them...and loud music....so still noise pollution. What about those batteries and components for these thousands of drones that are used for such shows? Where do they go after not working anymore? Probably land-fields...
Ok ok....I know, nothing can end up well in a trade-based society. Everything gets traded, and thus marketed. Nothing is what it seems. A drone show is not just a drone show, it is an opportunity to advertise. A book is not just a book, it is an opportunity for the author to buy a new car. A piece of software is not just a piece of software, it is a way for the developer/company to collect more data, to then transform that into currency, to then transform that into holidays, houses, and fancy shit and so on for themselves.
This is the most fundamental thing that everyone should understand about our society, that we are forced and incentivized to trade. Very few people can afford to, or are willing to do things for the sake of doing things. And of course this creates a very messed-up society when you do something in order to get something else. We did that in school where the goal was to get good grades to pass the exams. Most kinds would cheat, not learn anything, because the goal was not to learn. And so it goes for our society...the goal is not to write books, do drone shows to protect the nature, create a PDF converter or whatever. Nah....
So we should not be surprised that everything goes to shit. Pollution, waste, bad products, scammy services....
On a positive note, I'm happy they're getting rid of fireworks, I hated the loud noise, the smoke and everything. I've never seen a drone show before, so it'd be nice to see that one day.
But yeah I knew trade would get in the way, #TradeRuinsEverything - this is why we can't have nice things. So does this mean I have to watch ads in the f**king sky now ?! Why is no one talking about this ?
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@tio also shared this documentary which talks about similar issues - videoneat.com/documentaries/15…
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