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CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta's move to block news in Canada
  • (Not arguing with you, just with the concept of the bill)

    Doesn’t the news outlet benefit from the traffic and clicks generated from that user engagement?

    What’s the government’s rationale for social media platforms to subsidize media outlets monetarily in addition to driving people to their content?

  • CBC, media groups ask Competition Bureau to investigate Meta's move to block news in Canada
  • Yeah, I am not Canadian so I’m sure there’s some information/nuance I don’t understand here, but from what I can tell from looking at a few articles from different sources:

    • Canadian government passes a law that would require Facebook to pay and/or share ad revenue for every link out (posted by the media outlet, not by Facebook) to an external news website

    • Facebook says they don’t want to do that, and will stop showing news links to comply with the law

    • Canadian government says “no not like that” and now wants to force them to allow links to news outlets, which de facto forces them to pay/share revenue with those media outlets

    Like I said, I’m assuming there may be something I’m missing here, so please any kind Canadians who can help fill in the blanks would be appreciated

  • US iPhone market share jumps to 55% as Android shipments fall
  • The source is Counterpoint Research as linked in the article - the 55% figure in the headline is misleading, the statistic is really “55% of new devices shipped”, not total market share.

  • What do people think about advertising like this on lemmy? Should it be allowed? Could it be stopped?
  • What a shitty response to a valid question. I’ll make this easy and just block you so we can end this here.

  • What do people think about advertising like this on lemmy? Should it be allowed? Could it be stopped?
  • Wrongly blocking people simply because a report was submitted against them, even if it’s unsubstantiated, is better than users having to do some proactive blocking/filtering?

  • What do people think about advertising like this on lemmy? Should it be allowed? Could it be stopped?
  • A report has to be reviewed for accuracy, there’s still time and resources required. It’s not as simple as just blocking every post or user that has a report submitted against them. People abuse report systems all the time.

  • What do people think about advertising like this on lemmy? Should it be allowed? Could it be stopped?
  • Rules are only as effective as the mechanisms enforcing them - I don’t think anyone wants ads on Lemmy instances, but removal requires moderation tools and staff (volunteer or otherwise) to review everything that’s posted.

    I imagine the problem we’ll see is as growth accelerates, post velocity will outpace moderation manpower - short version, you’re always going to have to do some blocking/filtering of your own.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • Super shitty response to the question you still haven’t given an answer to, after I reiterated again what my understanding of the “so obvious” point was.

    Whatever you want dude, happy to block you.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • If it’s so obvious why can’t you state it clearly?

    It seems like the insinuation is that Threads is artificially inflating user counts with “shadow accounts” that aren’t real - however it’s been clearly determined that they aren’t.

    So, if it’s not that, then, again… what’s the “so obvious” point I’m missing?

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • Threads only shows users who have signed in to Threads. If you mention an Instagram user in a Threads post that has not signed in to Threads prior, the mention is removed because it’s not a valid handle.

    I urge you to read through the link in the original post to the Mastodon user who originally made this claim, where you’ll find plenty of people more eloquent than me explaining why this is inaccurate.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • But the point you’re making isn’t clear which is why I asked if you could clarify - what is the point you’re making?

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • What is Meta doing here? I’m not clear on what the point being made is.

    If you’re insinuating that they are doing this to artificially inflate user counts, why wouldn’t they be reporting about how there are 2+ billion threads users in the first week?

    They don’t need to manufacture hype - like Meta or not, in the first 96 hours they brought in almost 100 million users. Thats a third of Twitter’s entire active user base, in less than a week.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • I too understand where you’re coming from, but I think it’s an important distinction, not semantics.

    If Meta was simply creating a duplicitous profile for every Instagram user, that would be pretty predatory and misleading.

    However, if that were the case, they would also be bragging about having 2+ billion Threads “users”.

    It also implies that users could interact with these “shadow accounts” even if that person never used Threads, which is not the case.

    As it currently works, if you try to mention a user who is on Instagram but isn’t on Threads, nothing happens, the mention is stripped because it’s not a valid handle.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • It’s not forced on you. If you don’t download Threads and log in, you’re not on threads.

    This is akin to saying Google Calendar is “forced” on you if you have a Gmail account. They are separate services that use a common credential, you are under no obligation to use any or all of those services.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • It’s probably even more simple than that - a single DB with a flag for threads_enabled = true/false.

    They made it super clear in advance this is how it would work, the app is called “Threads, an Instagram app”, but as always people froth at the mouth for any opportunity to say “Zuckerberg bad”.

    That’s not some big secret. Everyone knows meta sucks. We don’t need to make stuff up to prove that. They do that on their own.

  • Meta appears to automatically create Threads shadow accounts for everyone on Instagram and allows users to follow those shadows
  • There’s plenty of things to hate Meta for, but this is inaccurate.

    You log into Threads with your Instagram account. There’s no “shadow account”, you’re logging into a second service with the same account and credentials.

  • Will I be able to get on the flight if I don't pay to select a seat?
  • Your ticket entitles you to a seat, even if you don’t pick it yourself. You’ll just likely get stuck with a less desirable seat like a middle seat.

  • Amazon Checkout. This should be illegal.
  • Saying it’s a weak example of asshole design does not equate to defending Amazon.

    It’s possible for Amazon to be extremely predatory and shitty, as well as this not being a very good example of how shitty they are, at the same time.

  • Amazon Checkout. This should be illegal.
  • …being within the same container does not make them both the same clickable target. Do you know from personal experience that clicking “Cancel anytime” is clickable? Because as I said, over two hours ago,

    It’s not possible to know from this screenshot alone if “Cancel Anytime” is a clickable target or if it’s just text, but when taking a quick glance at least to my eyes the options seem pretty clearly delineated. Amazon sucks and they are plenty predatory, I’m just saying this is a pretty mild example of hostile UI if at all.

  • Amazon Checkout. This should be illegal.
  • Oh you just did it! "Cancel anytime" is not underneath the button, it is part of the affirmative button. Part of.

    …but it’s not part of the button. The yellow button that says “Continue with Amazon Prime” is fully contained within the yellow button that one would click to proceed.

    I’m not sure how much clearer the decline option being on the left, and the proceed option on the right, highlighted in yellow, could be.

    And again, the “Cancel anytime” subtext isn’t even clickable, so what deceptive action has Amazon engineered here? For someone to click on a non-clickable target?

    There’s no arguing that this is stupid design, but that doesn’t make it asshole design. Hanlon’s razor and all that.

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    What are people using instead of Imgur now for image hosting?

    In an effort to try and be mindful of storage usage on instances I'm posting to, I'd prefer to host images externally and link to them.

    Now that Imgur has turned into.. whatever it is now, anyone have any good recommendations for simple, quick image hosts?

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