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Well, you use their platform and thus line their pockets. Why? Because it’s convenient, it’s lazy and “free” and you sold your soul and data for far too cheap.

If the population cannot behave in their best interest then the whole western civ gets Darwin Award and I am fine with that honestly.

And it is actually happening in real time in almost all categories from fertility rate to losing psychological warfare.

by Levitating1 hours ago|

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But we don't all use Facebook, Facebook found its niche of tech-illiterate people to abuse.

The population is a wide demographic and it would be nice if companies didn't try to exploit parts of it.

by juleiie53 minutes ago|

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You can say a lot of words on any given topic on a niche technology board but what does that change?

What can you do to change this situation? If there is a want then there are opportunities to make a difference.

Look, I don’t expect everyone to go into politics or become some kind of chief activist but I would love for people to be more aware of their collective strength and power.

To dispel the too pervasive illusion of powerlessness and false narrative (I wonder where that came from btw) about lack of agency.

Today’s divisions (I wonder where that came from) make it harder to group up with people when everyone is so split and radical and polarised (I wonder where that came from)

by juleiie41 minutes ago|

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Look, I may make a lot of quite fervent comments on this site a lot of the times but it is just because I see 24/7 how we are getting tricked into less and less personal freedoms.

It’s not a fun thing to observe