World’s richest man with an infamously glitchy centralized social network, who wants it to be a centralized payment processor, is saying what?

IMO: This post serves as a great representation of one of the pitfalls of post deletion.

I don’t see why conversations should become inaccessible just because either OP or a moderator decides they don’t want to have the post up. There are plenty of different reasons to remove a post (and I’m totally okay with respecting the wishes of the person who made it to redact their username and content), but not that many reasons to nuke the stuff that is contained under it. On places like Reddit, this isn’t the case. On places like Twitter or Mastodon, this would be nonsensical. And Lemmy is somewhat related to Mastodon.

Removed comment from the journalist, which was well-received in the community:

Hi there! These are all great questions, thanks for bringing them up. I’m going to do my answer to reply point-by-point so I don’t miss anything.

Other than financial, credit (Experian, Equifax, Transunion), and social media, what accounts did you leave open?

- I actually left most of my accounts alive but empty, mostly as an experiment to see how feasible it was to do all of this. Of the 55 accounts I covered in the story, I only deleted Github, Goodreads, Indeed.com, Nextdoor, Untappd, and Zocdoc. The reasons for each was different. Untappd got axed because I just didn’t have the same pleasant nostalgia looking at it like I did with Foursquare. I was just sort of frustrated with Goodreads and maybe that’s unfair, but it was easier to delete than to clean up.

Did you also delete facebook activity (posts, comments, reactions, follows, tags…). If not, is there a reason to keep it? Not sure if this still exists. 7 or 8 years ago, I ran a script on my facebook that deleted all posts, comments, photos, and untagged, un-reacted, and un-followed everything. It took over 3 days to run and removed over 10k items/activities. - I did end up deleting most Facebook activity; I believe there were some posts that I felt okay leaving but I trashed the vast majority of it. The difficulty of the tools really became a problem here, because it’s not easy or intuitive to go through all that activity and there were limited options with what to do with them. Whether or not to keep Facebook ac…

“It’s often used to diminish what someone says”

Well yes, of course it is. What it isn’t is more interesting to me, though. You aren’t accused of being sexist, ableist, or anything broadly bad. Just dismissive.

I can’t think of a smaller hill to die on.

One of the biggest problems I have with Lemmy is the hierarchical nature of it. I don’t have a problem with moderation, but the software makes it too easy to suppress stuff by accident.

For example, let’s say I’m talking to somebody in a comment thread. The entire thread can get wiped out if the thread’s OP decides to delete the post, or a moderator removes the post, or a site admin removes the post

Way back in 2023, Matrix was the jack of all trades but the master of none. It wanted to replace Discord but the video messaging was not stable enough. It wanted to replace Slack but message searching didn’t really work. It was still struggling to get a decent client and server implementation, and message loading times were a huge pain point.

Fast forward to today, most of the problems are still there. Give it a couple more years to cook.

Just get a bigger screen. But you can’t buy bigger screens these days except as smart TVs or monitors… And those smart screens can detect when you aren’t interacting with them and display ads…

FWIW Ente just added photo editing

Nothing makes me tune out of a conversation faster than if someone injects a ChatGPT response into it.

That’s bad enough, but now Apple wants to create a total surveillance device that not only listens to everything we say and uploads into their cloud, but also spits up random nonsense at random times?