What the heck are you even talking about right now?

You don't think you could hit your macros with lentils? High protein, high fiber, calories for days. Throw in something like coconut oil and you're gold. I only discovered lentils in the last few years since, yeah they don't sound appetizing and are considered "poor people" food. Turns out they are great for you, delicious, cheap, and full of protein. I'm just mad it took me so long to find out about them.

Look - you love meat. It's easy. We get it. But lets not pretend you couldn't get the equivalent nutrition from other sources.

What if we just like... just do it over the poles?
I'm an idiot.

It's crazy (sad) how much we are all starting to have to rely on the EU to save us from the BS.

Less drug sniffing dogs and more COVID sniffing dogs at airports please.

A reflection of the state of the world then?

Spare some knowledge stranger? That's a dark path I don't wish to travel.

Honestly surprised there isn't more. There's a lot of money that would be lost if the fediverse became more mainstream.

Obvious a very low level study, but as someone with tinnitus any progress in their area is exciting!

It's poisoning the well though, even if I don't see the ads. Also they will prioritize inflammatory content to drive engagement, which would affect other instances as well (you know, like they do for all their other apps/platforms).

And corporations are not good or bad, but the for profit ones... are for profit. And I'm sorry but there is no justification for a profit motive in social media.

I see no way they aren't a competitor. Meta is a company. Companies exists to make money. Meta makes money by driving engagement and then monitizing via ads or user data sale for others to target ads.

Like are we all supposed to pretend a company, Meta of all companies, is an altruistic entity? Because that's not how it works... At all.

Remove corporations from social networks.

A company exists to make money - period. I struggle to see why Meta making money off ActivityPub is a good thing.

There's just no good reason to have a profit motive in social media when it simply doesn't need to be there.

The sooner we realize corporate control of social media was a massive mistake, the better the world will be. Imagine if corporate social media algos that drive engagement through ragebaiting hadn't existed for the last 10 years...