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I don’t get this take - because if this was the plan, why not just shut Twitter down straight away instead of whatever is going on right now?
The actions of the platform don’t indicate they’re trying to kill it, just that they have really bad ideas trying to make money off it.
It depends what we mean by “bad with technology.”
A lot of posts here are talking about how the current young generations (Generation Z and Generation Alpha) are bad with technology as they don’t understand anything, and this is true, but to most people being “good with technology” means you’re good at using it for desired results, not necessarily understanding how things work or how to troubleshoot.
In my opinion: No. Due to the type of technology that the millennials grew up with, they are generally good at adapting to new and changing technologies, so I suspect they’ll be quite good at keeping up. Whether this will hold true for Z and Alpha is to be seen.
Yes - but the vast majority of people are not going to be downloading forks or modified versions of software, they will always get it directly from the source.
The “default”, so to speak, has a lot of power.
Petitions have weight providing they’re coming from the right places. There’s a difference between the random internet petitions that random users make, and petitions coming from bodies such as unions or regulatory bodies.
This is a petition being put forward from a well known organisation, so I would gather it actually has some weight.
They definitely exist - quite a lot of them in fact - it’s just after the big migrations in 2022, the kind of people who tend to get popular on Mastodon are the more “serious” posters, as they’ve eclipsed the memers in popularity. (Eternal September kind of thing)
If you check out the explore and local feeds of instances such as Wet Dry World or Beige Party, you’ll find the meme posters, who you can then follow.
What doesn’t help either is that meme posters never use hashtags, even though they’re the primary way to be discovered on Mastodon. On the other hand, people who are posting “serious” takes tend to use hashtags a lot - this also helps skew the meme posters away from people. Unfortunately, hashtags have gone completely out of vogue and just aren’t used by most people.
Mastodon is implementing full text search soon though, most likely with 4.2.0 (the next version), which should hopefully make things easier.
Kind of surreal seeing my own Mastodon post linked, damn.
If you’re curious about the details I refer to, there’s an indepth article on lwn.net regarding this from 2016 here: https://lwn.net/Articles/687294/
I know that feeling, which is why I moved to Firefox quite a long time ago.
Jumped around some forks for a bit, and now I’m settled on Floorp for desktop and Mull for Android.
If you’re wanting a Firefox-based browser with sidebar / vertical tabs, I’d take a look at Floorp.
It aims to be a Gecko equivalent to things like Vivaldi, you can get it at https://floorp.app. The recent version 11 release is fantastic.
No, because what is the chance people will give up YouTube?
Not very high, I’d say!
For what it’s worth I’m not saying that - it’s just a common argument I’ve seen online lately in these spaces. I don’t actually know if it’s true because I don’t use Google Search.
This is my take too - Google Search and YouTube especially which are owned by Google.
Even if Chrome had like 5% market share, surely they could just push this anyway? While the Chromium monopoly is partially to blame for this, I’d argue the centralisation of the web is as well.
Sure, “Google Search is useless now, you can’t find what you want!”, but the vast, vast majority of people still and continue to use it, and nothing will change that most likely.
You have to realise that to most people, Google is not seen as a bad company - quite the opposite in fact. They have all these “free” products that do everything you need them to, so they’ve built-up a huge amount of trust with the general population.
Google is obviously trying to take over the web, but the regular person doesn’t see this as they don’t follow any of this news, nor do they actually care. Google has good, fast, free products, that’s all people care about.
I only self-host a MediaWiki website at the moment, along with a PPSSPP adhoc server for said game that the wiki is related to. I want to self-host a lot more stuff, but storage space is expensive, and I don’t really want to leave things running at home all the time either as it will eat into my electricity bill.
Nextcloud and OnlyOffice are what I’m interested in next, and perhaps a Fediverse platform.
This is absolutely not a concern for 99% of people. As much as we (rightfully) scream about it on Lemmy and Mastodon, most people don’t care.
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, and others are already collecting this information already, it’s so strange to see people acting like this is a new phenomenon.
Threads never released in the EU in the first place, so this absolutely is not the reason for lowered engagement.
In an indirect way it could be though - not having the entirety of the EU on Threads is a huge non-starter for many people, as many of their favourite influencers, celebrities, companies, etc will be from the EU who were never able to get on it.
You’re 100% wrong on the details.
A few things:
Now don’t get me wrong, they can absolutely meddle, but not purely through money or hostile takeovers, due to the decentralised nature of the Fediverse. No matter what, the Fediverse will always exist as it is, all the huge platforms can do is try to make it so people don’t want to use the Fediverse and move to their platforms instead.
To try and give an analogy, it would be like a company trying to “buy the web” - they literally cannot. Of course, we do have some huge players who control a lot of the web and attempt to dictate standards for everyone else, but there is no one iron fist that rules over everything, and there’s many small players and communities all over the place.
It’s whatever you want it to be.
In general, people on the fediverse are pretty chill and not hateful, but there are instances full of genocide deniers or literal white supremacists.
Thing is though, each instance moderates differently and your experience varies depending on where you are.
For example, beehaw.org (not sure if it’s back up) is a very heavily moderated and curated space, and most people there tend to be from marginalised groups. They will federate and defederate accordingly so that experience is preserved.
On the other hand, you have instances such as exploding heads which are “free speech” which attracts the kind of people you expect, and your interactions across the fediverse will follow suit.
Your instance and moderation defines your experience on the fediverse, not the platform.
It’s not quite that simple, as common pain points such as Bluetooth and WiFi also work out of the box. For the vast majority of users, they don’t really go beyond things like bluetooth, wifi, and dual monitor, all which work fine.
Couldn’t really tell you as I haven’t used either, I just use Debian on my home PC with a simple set up and it all just works. I don’t use things like split tunnelling or anything though.
The simplicity and stability of Debian is great, while it has “old software”, you can get the latest through Flatpak.
Definitely Phantasy Star Online - even today I still play and work on it because it’s just the perfect type of game for myself.