We also need to raise awareness about what giving google hegemony over defining what the web will be means.

Hemp / marijuana is arguably the most successful plant at this. It enjoys a high degree of biodiversity where as most plants we cultivate suffer from monoculture problems. Why is hemp / marijuana so successful? Probably because of its multiple uses. It makes strong fibers, you can make milk from it, you can make all sorts of consumer products like lip balm and hair conditioner, and you can get fucking ripped bro

I'd be happy to hear that's true. They were originally an aggregator until Google changed their api

I don't think it's coordinated, I think it all starts from the same root cause: Silicon Valley Bank failed. These companies all need to do something they've really not done much of in the past: turn a profit. But these companies are not run by the business geniuses we were once convinced were running the show. Most of them live so far removed from a normal persons life that they don't understand what motivates us, what we want in a platform, and as soon as we provide feedback after they've already made a decision, they decide it's because we don't understand the squeeze they're under to make money.

• Twitter: Elon Musk thinks he could make more money from subscriptions than advertisements. The whole thing's a disaster because that's really dumb. This case may be a little different though because there's some evidence Musk just wanted more people to see his tweets and to pay people to be his friend
• Reddit: Spez fails to see that he has multiple revenue sources available to him so long as he keeps his users around. Somewhere, there was the right balance of charging for the API at a reasonable price, performing better market research on his user base to provide a better ad platform, and keeping the Reddit coin system in place as the base liked it because the user base paid more for that than most similar online payment schemes.
• Google: this is the scary one. This is the one that seems like they know exactly what they're doing. They're ramping up their enshittification following the fall of SVB, but the way they're doing it is both malicious and a minor enough inconvenience that the majority of their users will stay. And they're doing it in small quiet ways. A little bit of tweaking how YouTube bans users here. A little bit of RFCs about DRM on the web there. Some PRs to chromium and android no one will notice. All to squeeze more ads into peoples online experiences. Their search product has been utter shit for about 6 years now, but people still prefer it over Bing or DuckDuckGo (which is a wrapper for Bing). They've learned the following lesson: if you're big enough, the citizens of the web will let you do it

Literally just applying it to YouTube would send tremors throughout the internet. If YouTube stopped working in Safari or Firefox, anyone using those browsers who don't really care and just liked those browsers for other reasons will give them up and go to a chromium based browser.

Google is fighting an apathy battle. One they know they can probably win because they own the Internet's favorite content hub

This dude has done a lot to populate the community he's promoting with content. He's the only contributor so far

1. Homebrew
2. Alfred
3. Amethyst
4. Kitty or iterm2
5. A web browser that doesn't suck (I recommend librewolf or Firefox)
6. A text editor that doesn't suck (I recommend NeoVim, vim, or vscodium)

Are you looking to rice? If so, both will offer basically the same tools and impediments as you'll have to redo everything. If you just want to tweak some settings, XFCE should be easier to tweak. Though I might be working with outdated information

Lxqt is lighter weight and more future proof. Xfce is more mature, full featured, and easier to find gtk apps to use

Up, and federating, it would seem

Temporarily. Only until advertisers do what this guy has done and realize, "Oh hey, the ads aren't effective at all" and change their advertising tactics

Also punch people who tell you not to punch Nazis. Those are Nazis

It's still not great. Programming is a form of communication, and the platforms you design will reflect the kinds of messages you want to nurture and propogate. I made terms with it, electing to use lemmy in the fediverse on an instance they don't manage (theirs are lemmy.ml and lammygrad.ml), because kbin wasn't quite prime time ready yet. But if I were going to keep using Lemmy once kbin is more mature, lemmy would need to be developed with a decentralized governance committee or there would need to be a hard fork

Because everything is under control, and it's all going according to plan

Spoofing email is hilariously easy. GPG signing really needs to be made easier

git rebase -x theirs origin/main and then look at the lines your changing to see what needs to be retouched

Which have been wildly unuseful for over a decade

I'm probably going to be writing up a guide that tries to use non loaded language to describe the different flavors of lemmy for when my friend joins when Boost becomes available. But I actually really like that there's [email protected] and it's very centered, there's [email protected] and it leans left, and there's [email protected] ans its very right wing conservative. I want to make a guide because I think the downside is none of the domains clearly denote the makeup of the moderation teams beliefs without some investment into exploring the fediverse and seeing what's what.

I'm coming from the opposite approach. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me, fool me a third time? Jesus Christ, stop getting fooled. I'd prefer to defederate and monitor. If Threads turns out to be different, I'd be interested in having a trial account on an instance that federates with Threads. I have a similar feeling about if Tumblr started federating. Cautious trialing from an instance that federates.

You're reading a lot into what I'm saying stuff that I'm not saying