And who are the sponsors that gladly endorse and fund the European alt-right? Why, it’s American billionaires, of course.

At least Germany is in the process of lynching AfD.

Civilised doesn’t have to mean flawless. The US is still a horribly barbaric country, and the weapons Israel use to commit genocide come from the US.

I see a lot of drama here in the thread, people decrying data leaks, how Discord is very very bad, and a number of people wanting the “good old days” of forums.

Yes. I like forums too, but, uh…

These researchers scraped publicly posted messages. Keyword here being “public”. How would anything similarly public, like a forum, be better?

I actually remember the times when forums were at their peak. I hung out on BZPower for Bionicle things, and the Relic News Forum for Homeworld modding. You know what they had? Google bots that scraped messages, looked for certain words, and populated websites with advertisements based on what it could scrape from forums.

Pretty sure Lemmy doesn’t do encryption either, unless there’s some very special, private Lemmy server that nobody has access to. So the researchers could’ve just as well scraped the fediverse.

But I want something like Discord. Just not corporate owned…

This only happens if the cat owner bothers making a connection with their cat. If all the owner does is feed the cat, the cat is only going to care about the food you give.

I’ve lived with many cats before. One of the cats I had was a street rescue. When she was pregnant she chose my bed to give birth in, probably because I rescued her and she felt safe with me.

“I wish for an entity of the same power and capability as a genie, completely bound to my will and made to indefinitely (even beyond the grave) fulfil all my wishes, however many they may be, and be completely devoid of the kind of trickery that is described as a “monkey’s paw”. There shall be no malicious compliance.”

Monkey paw that, bitches. :V