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I was skeptical at first but your story checks out.

That’s just downright disrespectful to the table. Do you respect wood?

How would you define “dry texter”? How would a dry texter reply to those messages?

Yes.

I won’t subscribe, post, or comment in ml.

Scaled takes smaller communities into account and bumps their posts up so they don’t get buried by posts from larger communities with more engagement.

Edit: here are the descriptions:

Active (default): Calculates a rank based on the score and time of the latest comment, with decay over time.
Hot: Like active, but uses time when the post was published.
Scaled: Like hot, but gives a boost to less active communities

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html

Scaled was a game-changer for me.

I use scaled on web. Voyager can remember your sorts for different communities. I typically to use new for smaller communities and scaled for larger ones and the home feed.

The mechanism is impeachment. It’s broken because of polarization.

lol no. But nice try. I applaud the attempt!

I think banning individual social media services is not the solution. The solution is to create meaningful laws that hold any company, Chinese or American, accountable for data privacy and misinformation/election interference violations.

You, in a nutshell. You’re saying that they shouldn’t address specific threats. Why not both?

No, you’re conflating privacy and espionage.

I’m not moving the goal posts. The order for China to divest is about espionage. The ban stemming from their refusal to divest is about espionage. Your privacy law doesn’t solve this problem because it’s not a privacy problem, it’s an espionage problem.

To take your murder example, it’s like saying ‘I don’t see why everyone’s so worked up about China coming here and shooting people. People get shot here every day and the army doesn’t get involved!’ Despite sharing some details, domestic gun violence and war are different. You’re focusing on the trees and missing the forest.

🙂 perfect is the enemy of good

I’m not opposed to your proposed law. I’d support the hell out of it. It would solve other important problems, even if it wouldn’t solve this one. But saying that a country can’t do anything about espionage unless they pass that law is unrealistic.

You’re conflating privacy and espionage. The reason basically every country in the world has laws about foreign ownership of media and telecommunications infrastructure is not because of privacy concerns – it’s because of the potential for espionage. That fanciful law with no chance of passing in the US (even if it should!) would reduce but not eliminate the problem. It’s illegal for China to operate weird little secret police stations in foreign countries to threaten, intimidate, and control the Chinese diaspora, but that hasn’t stopped them from doing it. Having them control powerful monitoring and tracking tools doesn’t make it harder. They are very capable of surreptitiously doing shit they shouldn’t.

Yes, which doesn’t solve the problem because the problem is in China. The Chinese government can demand any information that ByteDance possesses. Under Chinese law, they are bound to comply and bound to deny that they were even asked under threat of extremely harsh punishment.

That wouldn’t solve the problem because the Chinese government is not bound by US law in China.

This happens all the time. Almost every country has laws about foreign ownership of media and telecom. Here in Canada, Americans cannot come in and just buy up all the media companies. The consortium that bought my cell provider included a wealthy Egyptian national who was forced to divest before the sale could be finalized.

China was forced to divest from Grindr in the US like five years ago for the exact same reasons.

The only thing that’s really weird here is that China is refusing to do so and would rather burn it to the ground than sell it. That’s at least in part because having all that information - including granular tracking data - on 50% of the US population is an insanely powerful intelligence tool.

You should keep the potato compartment filled with spuds as the good lord intended