Happy little trade

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The "nothing" means "nothing good".

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Come on, that's not fair. We get some things:

My neighbor got robbed when she posted about being away on holiday. What an experience!

And there was that time that some users had private messages made public due to a security glitch. I'm sure that ended more than a few relationships!

We get mass surveillance -- that's a pretty good one, yeah?... No?

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I use Facebook for a lot of hobby stuff. I look for hobby communities on Lemmy in the same categories but they’re way smaller and less active. I wish everyone would move to Lemmy but there’s a barrier to entry which isn’t the case for Facebook.

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Don't be afraid to evangelize! If someone seems really disappointed with Facebook, introduce them to Lemmy! The main barrier to entry is teaching them what an instance is.

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Facebook Marketplace is pretty good though, at least in the US. All other Facebook features are rubbish

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Hey, don't forget the addiction and self esteem issues. Social media does much more!

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That's not true the users get fed a constant bullshit via a constant pipeline

NickwithaC

Bob Ross got fame, the good feeling of teaching something, a job where he just paints calmly for a living, he got a good life out of it.

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Bob Ross gets a share of the price for selling your soul to Google. He's a tool in corporate abuse of humanity. Otherwise he would've long time ago quit YouTube with a clear public statement.

Facebook is a product that cost billions to develop. It scaled so fast at some point, they developed a big data framework on top of MySQL, cuz refactoring wasn't an option. Their tech stack is the funniest chimera out there. And it only happened because everyone loved it so much.
Facebook costs billions per year to run. And you get it for free. I mean, you pay with your data, just like on YouTube.

Lemmy, you show as usual that you cannot even basic math. You're not entitled to criticize capitalism until you learn how to count. You sound stupid.

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Otherwise he would've long time ago quit YouTube with a clear public statement

Am I missing something? Bob Ross died 10 years before YouTube became a thing, the videos of him aren't really his and I doubt he's making any public statements about them

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Not to mention brand new mental illnesses!

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No cactus deserves that

Use a hackle instead

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Yeah, how much are the services of an algorithm geared toward maximizing outrage worth?! Gotta be something!

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You get: *social media addiction because our algorithms are built to keep you scrolling

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He got an entire art supply empire with franchises that sold painting courses (and maybe still do?).

I think he also got screwed out of most of the proceeds and possibly even the use of his own name because he had a shady business partner.

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Fuck your nightmare fuel! I'm not even mad, you did such an amazing job.

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Lemmy, you show as usual that you cannot even basic math. You're not entitled to criticize capitalism until you learn how to count. You sound stupid.

Basic math: He died 30 years ago....

Robert Norman Ross October 29, 1942 – July 4, 1995

"was an American painter and art instructor who created and hosted The Joy of Painting, an instructional television program that aired from 1983 to 1994 on PBS in the United States, CBC in Canada, and similar channels in Latin America, Europe and elsewhere." --- Wikipedia

Image transcription: picture of Bob Ross I keep saved to my phone.

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I get data, you get incorrect data