Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es

FOSS zealots: Please stop telling people this is the year of Linux on the desktop and that Linux is better than Windows/Mac for every use case.

It's not, and it isn't. It took me years of being a system engineer to be able to just use it as a daily driver without significant pain every day.

For very narrow and specific cases, a very user-friendly distro may be better, but that's a call one can only make if they're intimately familiar with the needs of the user.

There's another investigative journalism piece about Facebook's outsourced content moderation companies on theverge.com.

I only skim read it, but that was bad enough. As you might expect it's a catalogue of horrors combined with abusive work practices and very exploited workers. Being continuously exposed to disturbing content eventually takes its toll on mental and physical health, and as the article describes is sometimes fatal.

"It was mass panic. All the SMEs had to rush in there and try to help people. They were freaking out — they couldn’t handle it. People were crying, breaking down, throwing up. It was like one of those horror movies."

This is the hidden part of what Facebook really is. It might also be part of the reason why Zuckerberg claims that in the next few years the company will be moving to a situation where they can't access the content (presumably client side encryption with the ad targeting also on the client).

People can also post disturbing or illegal content on the fediverse, but the difference is that nobody is forced to view it and blocking can isolate off bad instances like an immune response. It's also a reason why instances should try to avoid having thousands of users, because the burden on the admin can become too much.