The great thing about being an Atheist is that you don’t need people threatening you with hellfire and damnation for you to be a decent person. You just choose to be that way.
@HamonWry a lot of atheists I know aren't decent people at all. They've just replaced religion with social justice so they can feel morally superior while running around yelling at people (and worse)
I think the thing that is going to drive me off Mastodon is the one-eyed fedi superfans.
I've always known twitter can read my DMs but I also know they have a privacy policy backed up by strict privacy regulation in the US, EU and Australia.
The chap who runs my local instance is lovely but there's no privacy policy and no regulatory oversight. I don't even have a contract with him. I'd have to sue him in a private capacity if anything happened.
@allrite@engagedpractx like I said, they're called DMs not PMs. Like you said earlier, they're not private on other services either. There may be greater repercussions when enterprise breaks user trust due to laws in certain territories, but they're still legally using your data to train AI, serve you ads, etc etc. The proposal that we remove DMs because they aren't totally secure is roughly equivalent to suggesting we should get rid of electronic payments for the same reason
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@evan I chose somewhat agree, but feel closer to strongly agree. I see this as very similar to hashtags in bio's etc. If you support a cause, you should understand what is being done in its name.
I've been called out too many times for NOT supporting a cause with people demanding an explanation, but every time I knew more about what was being done in the name of that cause than the people demanding my explanation.
If people feel strongly enough to protest, they should be informed.
I don't get it. Why are we all raising flags? What's the use in picking a side in a murderous endless war which the people don't want and nobody has ever won?
I stand with anybody and everybody who wants an end to the cycle of violence and a peaceful solution in the Israel-Palestine conflict.