Comment on 'We're done with Teams': German state hits uninstall on Microsoft
sanity_is_maddening@lemm.ee 20 hours agoOh, how I get you!
I’ve been calling for degoogling, the need to get rid of Microsoft and supporting FOSS and the need for open protocols in everything for quite some time, I don’t even know how long… and people would use the word “paranoid” or synonyms of it. Now? “You had a point” or “You were right.” - but I tell them that I don’t care about being right. I care about doing what’s right for everyone. I’m not a doomsday prepper telling people to go off grid and let civilization fall… I don’t want myself or anyone to just survive, I want us to live and in peace. Surviving is not enough to worth living. It is the bare minimum. The basic requirement. And if that is what awakes people, then it’s too late. By that point, life is not worth much.
I’m old enough to remember in the 90’s people promissing that the internet was going to free the whole world. It was the “true disruptor of centralization”… how far we’ve come to fail that promise. Here in Lemmy I’ve found some people again who still remember that promise. I only joined Lemmy this year because I had given up social media a long time ago. But decided to give it a spin after desliking mastodon a while back. The Fediverse is certainly a step in reclaiming that lost promise. With a long uphill battle against the wind for now. But when you see the list of the most downloaded apps or how many iphones have been sold etc… you really see how really dumb most people are. They surrender their sovereignty for the most superfluous of things. Oh, well…
At least, you and I are not amongst them.
I don’t know about you, but that statement has never brought me any comfort.
But the article, as small a drop in the ocean as it is, brings me some small measure hope.
Unfortunately, as always, people only seem to do it for the worst of reasons. And always too late. As the two go hand in hand.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Yep, same here, exactly.
The Cambridge Analytica nonsense was the last straw for me.
These goons have been knowingly making people angier, more stupid, misinformed and emotionally supercharged for over a decade now, and it has literally destroyed society.
I too got called paranoid and overreacting for years, a decade… and now its more or less common knowledge everything I was worried was or could be happening… in fact was, and in fact did.
No apologies though from anyone who was demonstrably wrong and misinformed about all this for a decade though.
Now all the bigger problems enabled by their acquiescence to ‘the algorithm’ are here, and those are more pressing matters.
People do not understand that you can’t unscramble an egg.
It has been wild to watch sci fi dystopia from movies and books of the last 50 ish years just become reality, watch the vast majority of people just sleep walk into it.
sanity_is_maddening@lemm.ee 18 hours ago
The Cambridge Analytica debacle!!! That was such a low point. I don’t know how facebook was allowed to exist after that shitstorm, let alone grow. I mean, I do, the system rewards its consolidating power. But the people?? No class lawsuits? No boycotts?? I never used facebook. But I used to have an instagram account. They bought it and ruined it as expected and I had to leave. The same with whatsapp. I’m anti-social enough for it to be easy for me to quit these things, I suppose… Still, I’m so tired of the techno conglomerates destroying everything like slow moving lava consuming everything as it spreads. As I write this, I have to think of Pompeii. Surely, there must’ve been people warning them to get out of there for years and years. But some probably used magical thinking and said that the gods would spare them as long as they behaved or something in that line. As others probably in apathy masked as wise skeptcism said that people warned their great grandparents of the same and how they were still there. And then… well… Volcano did what volcanos do.
But yeah, I also have been witnessing the slow fulfillment of our fictional dark dystopias. All being neatly adapted into our daily lifes. While most people just seem to think that shit is normal as usual.
And soon enough… it is… Wielded into existence by a few through the apathy of the many.