Way before TikTok yeah. I remember almost the exact same headlines like 15 years ago in middle school.

I remember this being a thing before tik tok

This 100% comes down to funding and available talent on a regional level.

The “provided devices” is the important part of that sentence

My company exclusively deploys machines with physical coverings for the camera and hardware disconnects for the mics.

I agree on that point, nobody has the right to any information about me except for exactly what I choose for them to know. Speaking from an IT professional standpoint, if I deploy a device, I absolutely have the right to know anything that happens on that device. You have to from a security perspective.

That’s why I don’t use any social media on my work laptop. Ideally that’s why social media is blocked on work machines so it’s a non-issue. Kids should understand that concept early, you do have a right to privacy but you also don’t control that device.

We just fundamentally disagree on what rights someone is afforded on a company provided devices. They can’t opt out because obviously not, you don’t get to just opt out of information security policies.

It would be a different beast if the school didn’t allow you access coursework on a personal machine without installing their bullremoved, thats a huge issue.

Sooo schools should just provide devices to kids with no monitoring at all?

There shouldn’t be an expectation of privacy on school/company provided devices, that isn’t how it works literally anywhere. It’s on the parents to teach their children not to use the device for personal reasons.

Ideally the school machines should be limited to only allowing coursework and limited messaging between classmates and teachers, it’s a tool not a toy.

Idk I just can’t get upset about this. Kids and privacy is kind of a tough one to begin with, I personally think kids shouldn’t have unregulated access to communication devices at all until like 14-15, maybe.

Don’t put personal removed on work devices. This is pretty basic.

Are you intellectually capable of seeing literally anything without complaining about Zionists? Like, anything at all? Every single comment you post is the same removed, we get it, be quiet.

Literally the only thing this guy posts is “but whatabout zionists”

Endlessly, no matter how irrelevant

If some random instance with one user makes like 100s of communities, will it count in the graph?

Yeah it will, that’s the problem with using community count as a measure for the activity of a given instance.

Hexbear is interesting because like you said, they’re very self contained.

If you read the rest of that sentence, you’ll (maybe) figure out that there isn’t any comparative statements there- just pointing out that hexbear mostly originated from users banned from Reddit, for being toxic and disruptive.

There’s a few OC users there

When did I say anything about Reddit?

We’re currently the 2nd most active instance measured by MAU, only lead by Lemmy.world

Because they - specifically Chapo trap house-got all of their communities banned from Reddit years before.

You are not making the argument you think you are

All of which are super politically charged

Yeah I was surprised too, but if you go by MAU hexbear and Lemmy.Ml combined are just under 3k last I checked.

Lemm.ee alone has about that many, and Lemmy.world has many times that

Nah I’d say this is right on par with the philosophy of the instance. Lemm.ee is moreso infrastructure for interacting with the fediverse than a specific community