I once called my bank because I had trouble logging in. They didn’t outright say it but they implied that they could see my password and asked if I wanted to update it by telling them the new one. I said no.

I might be asking a dumb question here, this is the right community for that after all. But have you asked your cousin what might be wrong?

We asked A.I. to create a copyrighted image from the Joker movie. It generated a copyrighted image as expected.

Ftfy

Propaganda is by definition misleading and political in nature. It can lead to policies that can make life very bad for a lot of people (see Nazi propaganda).
A misleading, nonpolitical ad, may make you waste money, but it’s unlikely to lead to police rounding up foreigners in the night. Dishonest interpersonal communications will make you lose friends but it (generally) doesn’t set political policy.
Thats not to say that advertisements can’t be dangerous, but at least they’re regulated to limit potential damage. Anyone can push any political statement as fact and get away with it as long as it doesn’t piss off the wrong people too much.

No. Not unless you have it stored on media that you own and control.

I made this exact same argument using XMPP as an example and got downvoted because “XMPP is still alive”

I’m on there so seldom that I didn’t notice

Good for them. I’m still not joining.

Yeah it was quickly disproven but some people never got the memo

Iirc some people used to think so for some reason when it was first released.

Google is considered an ad company.

Fixed that for you

No reddit repost bots please. There are already too many and they drag down lemmy’s quality.

Wow who would’ve thought

I understand. I hear it’s an issue on Kbin and it might be fixed on the newest versions of lemmy. But that’s just how “All” is, you’ll see everything whether you like it or not.

At the very least you can blur NSFW images in the settings

This doesn’t seem to happen on lemmy. And even if it did, my “All” filter is all memes.

Why not subscribe to the stuff you want to see and then only filter by subscribed? I honestly find it strange that people don’t do this by default.

Reminds me of my first PC

I read the complaints as “I posted false imformation once and they already flagged me for posting false information”

Imagine if Facebook offered RSS feeds. That’d be nice right? It wouldn’t ruin anyone’s experience if they started supporting an open standard like that.

Remember XMPP? How Google embraced that open protocol? Remember they extended it and practically turned it into their own standard? Remember how it was extinguished after they decided they could just make their own standard?

That’s what people are afraid will happen with the metaverse. Facebook isn’t interested in making ActivityPub better. Their only goal is to turn it into a money stream without regard to whether it survives or not. The only way to slow that down is to not play woth them.