I think they mean that, by definition, the entire world is diverse

I agree that they offer a good VR experience from a VR-feel standpoint- that said, Meta inherited all the best UX that came out of Oculus just to massively deteriorate it since then

Better yet, crack it open and find a way to load alternative firmware onto it

I’m imagining some sort of an Iron Man situation

Is Pebble still alive? I quit using mine a long time ago because I wound up getting an AW, but I’ve still kept it somewhere

Any FOSS alternatives to Pinterest out there?

Ah sorry didn’t know that. I’m still new to self hosting stuff

Obsidian has been working well for me though it may not have all the functionality you’re looking for

Holy

I am not interesting

Fuck ICE

comic book evil levels of corruption

Something that’s become evident, too, is that a lot of people really can’t grasp how much money is being stolen by the rich. When the administration says that DEI initiatives cost, let’s just say, $200 million, it’s easy to say “well that’s way too much money!” But that amount is a pittance compared to $250 billion into the pockets of 5% of participants of only a single program. Regular people are so far removed from these numbers that we can’t even wrap our heads around them when we hear them

So this is decades long waste and fraud, but a significantly higher amount of money for handouts for the ultra-rich authorized by Trump, including money piped directly to his family, is fine?

From the PPP program:

More than half of the roughly $525 billion in [PPP] loans doled out through November went to just 5% of the more than 5 million recipients

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jonathanponciano/2020/12/02/new-ppp-loan-data-reveals-most-of-the-525-billion-given-out-went-to-larger-businesses-some-with-trump-kushner-ties/

sites feeding content that use an algorithm to personalize feeds for each user are all compromised.

Not arguing against this at all because you’re completely correct, but this feels like a key example of governments being too slow (and perhaps too out of touch?) to properly regulate tech. People clearly like having an algorithm, but algorithms in their current form are a great excuse for tech companies to use to throw their hands up in the air and claim no foul play because of how opaque they are. “It only shows you what you tell it you want to see!” is easy for them to say, but until consumers are given the right to know how exactly each one works, almost like nutrition facts on food packaging, then we’ll never know whether they’re telling the truth. The ability for a tech company to have near unlimited control and no oversight over what millions of people are looking at day after day is clearly a major factor in what got us here in the first place

Not that there’s any hope for new consumer protections during this US administration or anything, but just something I had been thinking about for a while

Do you have a source for that? I’ve heard about this, too, but the evidence was dubious at best

I’m Gen-Z too. To some extent I agree with other people on here that, for broader discussions about certain topics, it doesn’t really matter what age you are in order to contribute to the conversation, which I feel is one of the strengths of this format of social media.

I also agree with you too that it doesn’t feel like there’s a space carved out by others from our generation on the fediverse yet. Growing up in such a dramatic period of technological change and global turmoil is something that we all have in common and has fundamentally affected our perspectives and our personal identities. I’d love to be a part of a community if you or anyone decides to begin cultivating one.