Nestle: “Write that down, write that down!”

Oh, hell yes, that’s more like it! Thank you!

I looked up NewPipe on the Google Play Store. First, there’s, like, four different options that are suspiciously similar. I click the one with 4.4 stars (others had, like, 2), and it says it collects and shares location data with third parties, and this data can’t be deleted?

Yeah, I’m gonna have to say no to that.

“Thank you for being a loyal member! As a gift, we won’t fuck you over just yet.”

It’s a classic Turkish move for undercover police to offer membership into the Pen 15 Club, then arrest them when they accept.

Ah, I see.

Unicorn?

Let me grab a shovel for you so you can dig yourself deeper.

Nature doesn’t do shit this funny.

Well, Spez did say he admired what Musk did with Twitter…

Password1’); DROP TABLE Passwords;–

Nice to see you putting in the same amount of effort in your rebuttals that Musk does with his.

Ah, hm. Well, I don’t have a Pixel, soooo…shit, lmao.

Sounds great, especially since it’s Android-compatible. I’d have to jailbreak my phone, though, right? Always been worried to do that, myself, because I don’t want to break my phone or get cut off by my service provider.

I might look into it on my Retroid Pocket 2+, though!

Ahhh, now it makes sense, thank you! So…do we panic because Zillaberg is making a federated Twitter sequel, or…?

Wrong. I regularly use “site:” all the time.

Ahh, so if I’m on Site A, I can view and comment on things from Site B, so long as A and B are federated with one another. The worry then is basically seeing and dealing with Meta’s bullshit here, and them more or less taking over through EEE tactics. That makes sense now.

Lemmy communities aren’t federated with Meta threads by default, right? It’s opt in. So just…don’t federate with .meta or whatever they’ll use? Apart from “don’t affiliate with The Zuckerbot”, I’m still not sure what the worry is all about.

Alright, that kind of answers the “how do I block Meta bullshit?” question, but what does that mean for Lemmy? Lemmy is an entirely different site from Facebook or Threads or whatever. Or is Lemmy more like a browser to view anyone’s federated community? Then I’d get the EEE thing everyone’s talking about. You usually see your communities on Site A, but Site B offers what Site A has, but also free beer! People migrate to Site B, Site B slowly introduces ads, poisons the beer, kills your cat, and steals your wife, but Site A is a shell of it’s former self and dies out, so…you can’t unfuck what’s been fucked.

You say that like it’s a bad thing. 😏

I’m brand new to Lemmy (guess why, lol) and federated systems in general. How do I block all things Meta? And what does that even mean for Lemmy, where it’s an entirely different site from Facebook?