…and yet, here we are. I left Reddit recently because of the drop in quality, and a lot of folks I know agree that it sucks even if they aren’t yet tapped into the fediverse. The internet still has a lot of friction and inertia. These things take time. But the momentum has shifted. These social media cesspools can’t last, even the most idiotic knuckledraggers will eventually smell the stink.

The downside is that they will find their way here. Lemmy will be bigger and less cool. Eternal September, am I right?

Harry Mack does freestyle raps about his sponsors. I think his bars about Keeps hair medication service and Nord VPN are just as entertaining as the rest of his stuff.

Silly question: could they evolve the infrastructure to an actual transit system?

Both sides are pretty bad. They are not the same.

… But they sure are quick to attack Biden on that front. Facts be damned

Yeah, this has nothing to do with Biden. That said, it sounds like the rules are not being applied fairly. That said, it’s not like America has fair, consistent policies or anything…

Bud, you sound like a technophile geek. The kind of person who custom built his own computer. You’re not the target customer. Apple builds products for people that don’t care about technology, they just care about what the technology does and want it to be easy and seamless. And that is a vast majority of the people.

I think the issue here is that we’re all genetically just apes and we live in a world where we’re expected to know about geopolitics, outrageous technologies, all kinds of cultural artifacts, and a bazillion other complexities of modern life, in addition to the basics of feeding ourselves, finding a mate, and child rearing. At the same time, we have behemoth corporations in control of all media with a strong interest in keeping people dumb, angry and discontent. And education is… not what it should be.

No, humans aren’t inherently evil or stupid or whatever. We’ve just inherited a world situation that we are not adapted for, and few people are able to learn and grow sufficiently to really understand and handle it all properly.

Fig ma balls.

News Feed Eradicator is a must have. I can check in on Facebook for personal messages and events, even post occasionally… but I don’t see the feed and I’m not the least bit tempted.

It’s also good for sites like Reddit (which I’m migrating away from, of course) where you can disable it for a set amount of time, to enjoy some idle web browsing time without slipping into a vortex.

Also, not a browser extension, but I use Google’s Family Link to moderate my web use. I can’t access social media on my phone. My wife administers it. It’s occasionally inconvenient, but on the whole it has been transformative.

Buttons? Ew.

I have consistently been Luddish about moves like this (removign physical keyboard, eliminating phone jack, even the tablet form factor in general) but I think I was mostly wrong, and monimizing hardware features in favor of software seems to improve user experience.

If you really want to escape from the data-mining ad-driven model, you could always switch to Google Fiber.

I think this is pretty cool. Sure, capitalists are gonna capitalist, but here we have subversive moves in a positive direction.