Silicon Valley: let’s addict people with free candy so they don’t notice we’re farming them for their data.

Elon Musk: Let’s charge them $8/mo for the candy.

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(Elon Musk basically wants to build a database of verified identities that he can then exploit however he likes and – here’s the kicker – he wants you to pay for the privilege of being the livestock that gets farmed. Hey, it’s a good gig if you can get it, I guess.)

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@aral Mastodon is currently trending on twitter, so if anyone here is also on there lets help the trend build, it helps publicity and hopefully brings more users here.

@zleap * people ;) But otherwise, yes :) (I’d been attempting to do that for a while but it’s an uphill struggle with the algorithm and, personally, I want nothing to do with Musk.)

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