MusketeerX

@MusketeerX@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technology has started to make it easier and easier to be anti consumer. To maximise how much you can extract out of consumers.

  It is making it easier to understand and control exactly how they use products and services. This allows you to structure your price and offering to give them the minimum amount they’ll accept at the maximum price. Allows you to strip features out and offer them for extra. Allows you to hide things behind ongoing subscriptions. Allows you to better lock people into products and services, making it more difficult to switch/leave.

  All of this was possible (and being done) before, but technology makes this so much easier/better.

  Technologies often start out by making something easier for the consumer. But beyond the early stages, it’s all about making the world better - for the corporations developing and selling products and services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars will need fewer screens and more buttons to earn a 5-star safety rating in Europe | Euro NCAP will introduce new testing rules in 2026 requiring physical controls for the highest safety score⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly!

  This pretty much summarises it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Calendar removes Pride Month and Black History Month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A good alternative. I moved across too.

  Youtube is the only thing there isn’t a really viable alternative to at this stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pixelfed's first plateau in progress⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m out of the loop, what happened in January to cause that sudden growth?

  I have an account but I’m not active. Just not much of a social media guy in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t disagree.

  There is one forum I still participate in:

  forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/

  It’s mostly tech-focussed and Australia-centric, but it does have other topics like sport, TV etc…

  I wish there were more like this.

  I hate that the bulk of online discussion is now owned/monopolised by a couple of huge corporations.