Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months agoThat’s the rub, every social media service with any uptake is bad from a privacy perspective because the only real way to make them profitable is to sell ads.
So, what are you looking to get out of it? RSS is still a thing, services like lemmy are decent at aggregating links (post the content you want, and hopefully others will help), and bookmarks work well if you just need a dozen or so sites.
I honestly never use Twitter, Facebook, etc, and I feel like I’m about to keep tabs on things reasonably well.
BURN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m looking for live updates from race teams during endurance events, gaming news from specific creators, local traffic notifications and real time updates from sports teams leading up to games.
These things don’t typically have articles to link to, so aggregators don’t work well, and are often behind the curve. RSS has no adoption anymore and doesn’t quite work anyways.
mark@programming.dev 6 months ago
Not true. RSS feeds are the only thing I use these days and know quite a others that do as well. Sure some sites may not have RSS feeds by default, but there are a ton of services that auto generate RSS feeds for you.
BURN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Again, these kinds of news pieces don’t have articles written because they’re real time updates.
On top of that I really have 0 interest in opening a ton of webpages to find simple info. RSS has never been a solution to what I want.
mark@programming.dev 6 months ago
So don’t use RSS then? No one’s trying to convince anyone to use RSS if they don’t want to. I was just correcting the validity of the original statement.
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
None of those are essential serveices. There is no alternative, those are just not essential things. In order to get those non essential things we will all stay signed into for the neo nazi revenue and messaging machine.
BURN@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So basically “don’t use it, we can’t offer a replacement, but since it’s not food or water you can go fuck yourself and not have it”
And people wonder why everyone doesn’t join open source projects.
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
well said. you’re supposed to have roses with your bread, fellas
JamesStallion@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Dude, I’m not your mom for you to complain to about the state of things. What I said is 100% true, and whinging won’t make it less true. This is how these huge companies stay in control of our lives, and now this is how they are going to install fascism. Do with that info what you will.