I won’t install Facebook Messenger because fuck Zuck and his privacy-raping software.
I won’t install Facebook Messenger because fuck Zuck and his privacy-raping software.
I’m a supertaster and hypervigilant, so all my senses are dialed up to 11. My memory is also unusually good. Also my son claims I have “Poon vision”, but I’m not crazy about that idea.
Thirty-nine years ago I worked night shift during college. I’m still trying to straighten out my circadian rhythms.
I boycott all the products of big corporations as much as possible. I’m not even slightly tempted to try Threads.
Reddit will REALLY be good when those apathetic users are all that’s left to produce content and moderate subs! /s
The internet and even the web didn’t need profit for many long years before the web went commercial. I’ve been publishing my own website since 1996 without advertising or asking for donations. I just publish it because I love the topic. Profit is NOT the be-all and end-all of existence.
Don’t believe me? How much would you sell your children for?
Reddit’s enshittification was delayed by COVID, but it happened nonetheless.
Except communities on Discord aren’t search-engine-facing, so they’re a complete dead end. Nobody can discover useful information there unless they are already members of that particular community. It’s the “walled garden” effect.
But aren’t Squabbles and Tilde both not federated, and therefore potentially subject to changes or even an IPO by the owners?
…so it’s nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?
I am disappointed.
Because the system gives them no other real choice. When all major parties serve the interests of the oligarchs, the people know that they’re being screwed. Which makes them angry. And since the powers that be absolutely will not allow the emergence of a truly populist movement or leader, the people have no other option but to support a charismatic authoritarian leader who promises them whatever they want. I suspect that most of the people know that those leaders are lying, but at least they acknowledge that the people are being screwed!
Note that while the establishment never allows a leftist populist movement, they’re fine with an authoritarian one. Translation: our owners won’t allow their cattle to run free, but they’re happy to have us all choose a leader to send us to the slaughterhouse for their profit.
Chi1d p0rn posters, among others. According to them, and I have no reason to doubt them.
BookWyrm. I’d searched intensively for a replacement for GoodReads, and been stuck with LibraryThing despite it’s extreme user-hostility (by which I mean the opposite of user-friendliness, not that the people there were hostile). BookWyrm was what I was looking for all along!
That should certainly be entertaining. Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t try it last time. But why the half measures? Why not just have all his political opponents shot?