X does it more like the second one, but there’s nothing stopping mastodon from doing it like the first.

Are you expecting a joke to actually discuss both sides of a topic?

i think you may have missed the joke if you read it too fast

Their goal is to be profitable. Whether that means embracing standards for good PR or fighting standards if it benefits them, it doesn’t matter. Money matters.

Did you want specific accounts?

Palestinian Shebab News Agency has facebook pages shut down

@Eye.on.palestine on IG suspended by Meta, then back up after a backlash.

#IStandWithPalestine and #FreePalestine getting censored by Facebook

Numerous actual popular accounts and news sources have been suspended. It was major news in the Arabic-speaking world in October. Meta even apologized for auto-translating Palestinian as “terrorist.”

As opposed to Threads stealing all brands companies and users anyway?

There’s still advantages to a fediverse and ways to defend against “embrace extend extinguish” if you plan ahead.

We can’t complain about proprietary networks if we don’t allow others to join our own open ones.

Health app has encrypted data that doesn’t go to Apple without explicit permission

It’s on my Home Screen, but I wish it was easy to send images. That’s the only major downside, trying to share an image from Lemmy only shares a link.

Well that’s a first. But IDF is far more likely to investigate and punish if a settler is the one injured than if the victim is Palestinian.

And sadly the Israeli lobby in the US will try to press US politicians to ignore all the chaos and extremism and demand Israel be backed unconditionally.

It’s terrible. I’ve gone through and they don’t even hide their racial profiling.

Shouldn’t happen. It’s rewarding two countries for their bad human rights records.

I have no love for corporations but they’re a fact of life by this point on the internet. They drive a significant about of marketing and users and they’re what make a social media platform take off (which is why Parler and Gab fell apart).

Fediverse SHOULD be an ethical platform, but you have server admins defederating any instance that even has paid subscribers. Isn’t that going too far? Are we trying to force everyone on here into a kibbutz?