Maybe they can recover their account if it was deleted recently but I doubt it, otherwise nothing much but going to the official store with the receipt and asking for a reset. I had a similar situation were a family member deleted and old Apple ID account and locked their device with it.

Correct.

It took me no time, I must check myself.

I was not going to, even if I was a centrist.

You are going to get critized whatever your political stance, even if you a a centrist who wants to unite people for the common good. Just recently saw a post comic post mocking centrism. Having a civil discussion on heated topic like politics is almost impossible now. My take is to avoid criticism if it is not contructive, otherwise its just becomes a fight.

Agree with this one

I would not know really, but there is a a new one hosted by the Pixelix Client creator. He shared it somewhere in his mastodon account.

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If the ads section on the post is true he is a real hypocrite.

Yeah, why would that be a bad thing. I thought the internet was for everyone.

Yep, I joined because everyone of my friends used it. Now no one does anymore, so to the dumpster. Unfortunately still have to use whatsapp. :(

Glad to see more people delete facebook

I was looking for this comment. It just shows Elon’s lack of knowledge and the will to say anything for the sake o confirming your beliefs.

I guess it would be nice if it compared usage over time too. Then one would know if there is something not normal.

I think we agree that social media in general can harmful but it does not seems that way on the rest. So lets leave it at that.

I don’t blame them, they have to compensate their organic intelligence somehow.

This is one of those weird adult things I learned late in life were you can play dumb and ask people to gift you something in particular implicitly just by casually saying that you are in need of said thing. It felt partly magic and partly that I and going to become a manipulative psychopath. In the end both parties play dumb and its all play, I think its kinda neat.

Lemmy is an infinite feed of empty bitesized content.

Would that mean that your point is that every social media platform is full of empty content? I would agree that the internet in general is somewhat empty now, but objectively speaking TikTok short video format is not meant for rich content so that would make it the more “empty” that any other social platform.

I have to ask you what platform are not an “infinite feed of empty bitesized content” to understand better your point perhaps.

Or what do you mean by “feeding”?

I mean that the platform traps people by encouraging/pushing you to keep scrolling for the next high. Just like one would feed a cow or pig, to later harvest a better product. Ever since I stopped using Facebook, Instagram and the likes my time spent on social media decreased abysmally.

As you said Lemmy also feeds content, but what it does not do is insert suggested content within your selections(feeds). If I sort by “All” all posts appear, “Local” for all local posts and “Subscribed” for my personal selection, all of those are sorted chronologically and in none will be a “Suggested Post or Advertisement”. Granted I do filter (skip) posts in my subscription but not regularly, just like anyone would skipping pages on a newspaper. And as you said, nothing inherently wrong with automatic topic filtering, that is a great feature to have I would love if Lemmy would have a automatic topic or tag filter. That all good and dandy but when is driven by interest in revenue it becomes more of a nuisance and possibly a harmful addiction specially when they remove the option to filter by time. Have to say that nothing against advertisements, businesses need to generate revenue and that is fine.

As for user content communities might be incentivized to attract and “feed” but that is not the platform doing it.

I just check myself before I say anything elitist about social networks preferences

I would like for anyone to join Lemmy or whatever platform that does not suck on your blood, I do not think any better of me for using Lemmy or a different content format and I would like to share whatever I have with the world. If Lemmy is and elitist platform I would not know anything about it and most certainly take no part in it. To be honest I do not know what this elitism you mention is coming from.

When I say “I see TikTok, I dislike” it is because of the harm it does to people and most definitely not aimed towards the people using it. It breaks my heart every time I see people with their neck crooked scrolling endlessly in TikTok, I see this everyday in the subway, in the street and everywhere. Kids and even elderly people suffering the effects of it. I really hope this ends someday, and if you think it is not that serious I would encourage you to check the amount of hours a kid spends on TikTok(not saying they would spend any time at all on the phone if it wasn’t for TikTok but TikTok obviously does not help at all). Not to mention TikTok knows all the harm it does but could not give a shit.

Would you care to explain why and how is Lemmy feeding me? I’m not saying Lemmy is exempt of the bad kind of content and behaviour or even me getting addicted to social media(federated or otherwise), but it is surely not motivated to do so because it gains nothing from doing so. Last time I checked federated platform do not use algorithms to filter and sort content, do not show advertisements and so on.

Final question, what would one that has those corcerns have to do so that they would not be a hypocrite? Asking geniunely… Are you concerned about those things? And if so what have you done about it?

PS: I do not hate TikTok just because, I hate any predatory social media platform, video game publisher or stream service. I have switched to every possible FOSS alternative and taken the recommended privacy practices.

My thoughts exactly