Wow, I decided I would give MBFC a shot. You are greeted with an ad-infested experience with a giant start bar reminiscent of a malware site. After building up enough courage to click it I discovered it not only wanted my email but also my credit card.

After having to fight to see the article I wanted rated I just don’t have the fortitude to the fight this horrible experience to probably be told that the following article is left center or left leaning bias.

While I will admit this was a not Fox News praising the Trump Admin, it has an extremely neutral tone and does nothing to pushback against the obviously clownish message that the Trump team provides.

For this reason it, is to me at least, right leaning. I guess I will never know what MBFC would rate it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/15/federal-workers-aid-recipients-reel-trumps-team-says-so-what/

I can only imagine how insidious this is going to turn in the future. People will undoubtedly use this technology to violate humans in ways we have never even thought of.

Allowing a corporation to control the only thing that person feels love for is a recipe for disaster.

People need connections with other people. This is the antitheses to this need.

I am sorry, but this is a really dumb take. For instance Elon Musk is just one guy but his tweets are boosted straight to the top. The amount of increase is secondary to the amount of exposure.

Maybe there are not a ton of hate mongers out their after all, but if the algorithm pushes them to the top it does not matter. The devil is always in the details.

Nope, people in IT know the cloud is actually countless servers on racks in a giant data center rotfl.

You just made a Techbro angry somewhere in the world.

Pretty much. When all your freedoms are being taking away you have to cling to the few things you are allowed to, even if those things are part of the problem.

A large portion of a lot of our lives is in the digital world. Having the right to control your software is a no brainer. I am reminded this every time I use my Windows 11 laptop and get interrupted by an ad for Microsoft or some other company whose software I have installed.

It really reminds of those early days on the web where your browser could be hijacked by pop-ups.

Content creators are not protected by copyright unless they have anywhere between $50k-300k and months of their time to waste an litigation.

The average cost for a federal copyright case is $278,000. Let’s stop pretending this is for the little guy.

Most importantly you are only looking at the utility of Intellectual property to make money. Art and science exist outside this realm for thousands of years without it.

We are to sacrifice the way science and art have always worked so supposedly content creators can make money. If this is your argument I will have to take a hard pass.

Intellectual property are rights for the rich. A perversion of science and art used to commercialize our culture. Creating artificial scarcity while denying that all science and art are built from copying and iterative development.

We could abolish it completely and it would cause an explosion of creativity and innovation like we have never seen before.

Remember when businesses stayed the fuck out of politics so they didn’t alienate their customers because they like money? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

I reject that you lump a commercialized platform with decentralized ones. It kind of makes me think you are full of it to begin with.

What happened to Twitter after Muskrat can’t be compared to anything I have ever seen. It is a disservice to reality to try and play like Twitter was already like that. It is now purely a propaganda platform used to subvert democracy.

Reddit was way better before going corporate. You have to be a real bootlicker to think the corporation improved it. You cite some questionable reddits as proof corporate cleaned it up. I just see them commercializing the hard work of millions of people without compensation.

The Fediverse has already fulfilled it promise. While it may not be the final version of the future of decentralization, it is a great start.

I will never give my information or time to another corporate ran social media platform. They proved they are all abusive fucks aand are at war with the very users that allow their platforms to exist.