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and the nature of their 1000s of experiments going at the same time isn’t methodical at all. they don’t actually know what iteration of google search was the best and most useful one. there’s no going back to what worked because at no point did they ever know what worked. the modern shitty google search is the best version we will ever get to use again.

google embedded them as a core piece of information infrastructure and then demolished themselves. now our information networks fundamentally do not work anymore

time to switch to Qwant, ecosia, or duckduckgo

end of the day these big tech companies need us in ways we don’t need them

and thus america became that much more like russia

Staying put and giving Reddit money is the real loss. We fundamentally disagree about what the fight is and what winning looks like. Also I don’t know where you’re reaching your conclusion that there’s no technical information here. We have wikis, we have discussions, we have high quality interactions. But the core essence of how we think we take the power back on the internet is different, and we’re not ever going to overcome this, so I think this is the end of the conversation

we’re the product, not the customer. reddit doesn’t own anything of value that we can’t have for ourselves or do for ourselves here, or on other, non-reddit communication networks. they didn’t want us to leave, they wanted us to change behavior to match their vision. instead, we’re here, having this conversation away from their influence. we won this small victory in a grander fight against hypercapitalism. the real challenge is that the banks choose winners and losers

what do you mean?

What a terrible terrible example. Bottled water is just theft

tech, food, anything

how is that the point you were making? it seems like the opposite of the point you were making. i’m confused and i think i just don’t understand what you’re trying to say when you say matrix doesn’t federate. because from one matrix server you can talk to other matrix servers, but from rocket chat, that’s it, that’s the end of the line. your server is your server

i see you found it already, but this reminds me of ohip’s challenge

“failing” implies that’s the goal, when we know that meta promotes disinformation because it benefits them

ban elon’s characters for a guaranteed boost in ratings

i have the legal right to stand on the street corner and call everyone who walks by a stupid slut.

that does not mean i will at no point get punched

yes, if for no other reason than that they’re tricking you into thinking they’re more fun than they are. you can have more fun playing other games with actual mechanic designs

A lot of regular people get swept up into the default

this is the terrifying thing about hegemony. the ruling class uses it to convince people to think things are normal that aren’t. racism is only 400 years old. across the globe societies had trans and non binary people until colonialism arrived in their place. so called “barter” societies that predated currency weren’t using resources in inefficient systems of trade, they were just sharing with eachother because compassion and love for our neighbors is far more default and natural to us than religious leaders want you to think.

i know there are. that doesn’t change the fact that only 46% of americans support israel. not a majority. i’m not using lemmy as my basis, i’m using the best most up to date data available, and that indicates a majority of americans do not support israel

the majority of Americans don’t support israel. it’s a superwealthy minority who dictates policy. the issue is too many americans have been propagandized to believe they have no power, no voice

more likely young

during the first big migration to lemmy a lot of folks were splitting between discord and here, and a really common refrain was “anything but old school forums” and i absolutely did not and do not get this attitude. old school forums were great! the discussions were always super relevant because everyone was there to discuss whatever specific thing everyone had signed up for, and the people posting were always super reliable, knowledge wise, because, again, it was a dedicated place for discussing something specific, and the frequently asked questions would always end up in a really good wiki. sometimes i wonder if people had bad experiences on those forums because they’re much more focused. like on reddit everyone would complain about the arch forums on r/arch, but none of what they said matched the actual tone of the arch forums. it made me think they posted short one liner questions as thread starters instead of giving a full breakdown of the error they were seeing, what they did to troubleshoot the problem, and what errors had come about during that process.

overall, i think we’ve had a shift in the architecture of the internet thanks to general purpose discussion sites like twitter and reddit. before, the internet was cathedrals filled with texts related to their specific topic. everything on a sportster related forum was going to be about the maintenance and modification of sportsters. maybe there was a subsection where people could talk about their other motorcycles, but that was more of a social lounge than anything, like the equivalent of the fellowship hall in my cathedral analogy.

after reddit and twitter took over those scenes, the internet became a mall. unfocused, impersonal, and only meant to pipeline you into purchasing products. none of the people up front are very knowledgeable because you don’t need to be knowledgeable to make sales, you need to be attention getting. especially when what’s for sale is disposable