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I'll never understand the 'why are randos talking to me' mindset on twitter. If you don't wanna engage in conversation, don't post on a public board.
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The true failing of RSS is that you can't track people with it
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Kids, never trust anyone who wants you to subscribe to their automatic blocklist. They do not have good intentions, and even if they did the perverse incentive for abuse is too much for most people to resist.

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it's fucked up that you could live in ancient egypt and there'd be ancient egyptian ruins, because ancient egypt just kind of went on for a really, really long time

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"In perhaps the creepiest example, Facebook applied for (and received, last year) a patent for a tool called Techniques, for emotion detection and content delivery. It would use the camera in your phone to take pictures of you as you scroll through content. Facebook would then use facial analysis to measure how much you did or did not like the content in question, so as to determine what kind of stuff to send your way."

rollingstone.com/politics/feat

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Incredible how well federation works with Mastodon. Most people I follow or reply to are on different server and it everything works seamlessly.