Next step would be Collective Shout and the Payment Cartels bullying ISPs into blocking that site and also potentially alternative social media and anything else they don’t like, basically forcing them into only being accessible through VPNs or through Tor/I2P, at least unless VPNs start getting blocked and Tor/I2P is deanonymized somehow thanks to these organizations’ bullying as well.

Assuming PeerTube as a platform embraces AI in the same way Google/Meta/etc. are, even though that’s fundamentally impossible based on its decentralized nature?

You can’t force AI in a decentralized platform which allows people to self-host their content, and that also applies to Lemmy and to Mastodon and Pixelfed too, ditto for Matrix and PeerSuite.

Good thing PeerTube exists, you could always just move there. Google stopped being trustworthy for creators as soon as they announced Veo 3 if not even before then.

Similarly, with Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest further embracing AI, you got this site, Mastodon, and Pixelfed to move to as far as the Fediverse goes and even Bsky while they’re still anti-AI, although given Bsky is a centralized, corporate platform, what’s stopping them from going the way of Google, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Pinterest at some point in the future?

They can force custom proprietary spying software on your devices.

• That would block Linux from their borders, which means goodbye Steam Deck in the UK among other things.

Assuming he doesn’t find a way to stay in office indefinitely.

Going to the club. I mean, if you want to hit up a nightclub, you do you, that’s your decision and your avenue of leisure, but I’m really not into that.

You’re talking on another viable platform right now, plus Mastodon and even Bsky for that matter although given Bsky is centralized ultimately, and also ultimately corporate-ran, who knows when or if they won’t go down the same dark path to ruin as Twitter or Facebook some day.

Cripple free press, then go after free speech and free expression on the whole next.

That looks like it came straight out of Sausage Party.

You got PeerSuite as a newcomer, and a pretty promising one with the concept of not having any servers tied to it at all, at that.

Force ISPs to block it or even go over the ISPs’ heads and block it at the national level? Hypothetically, if a fascist state wants any form of resistance wiped from the web, forcing ISPs to block it or blocking it at the national level would be a good way to go about that.

I just hope that doesn’t actually happen and it stays purely as a hypothetical in the US, but blocking at the ISP level or even at the national level is one way to take something out, that’s how dictatorships like North Korea censor their media, for example.

Why do I feel like the Elmo Twitter hack was orchestrated by the Trump dictatorship to further sow hatred against public media and give another reason to defund it?

How long before user-generated content and alternative forms of social media like this site or like Matrix, PeerSuite, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, and etc. are next in the crosshairs?

Google would probably cancel them there too if enough money exchanged hands between the right (err… wrong) people.

Speaking of ‘financial decisions,’ CBS isn’t entirely wrong there, money has to have exchanged hands somewhere for this to happen.

Good, now let the entire Heritage Foundation go down with him. I and tons of other people would welcome the death of that hate factory.

Given it’s supposed to lead directly into Rogue One, no they didn’t.

Welcome to Skynet IRL. Things were better when there was no chance of your favorite post-apocalyptic fiction, be it Terminator or Fallout or Mad Max or whatever it may be, becoming real instead of staying as fiction.

Last time I thought you could install Asahi on current Macs unless Apple started blocking that and I didn’t know.

peertube.wtf and lemmy.wtf are both down right now.