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- Comment on Chinese companies cracked the code on getting people at home hooked. Now, they're exporting that playbook globally. 18 hours ago:
Ironically this article is about how China mastered the ultra capitalist art of getting people to buy (and crave) shit that they don’t need. They have mastered marketing and advertising. And they are now exporting this to the rest of the world.
- Comment on ActivityPub vs RSS Atom etc. Why Federate instead of aggrigate? 3 days ago:
RSS still leaves data in silos. If I love the content on site.com and they decide to put it behind a paywall, enshittify it, or the site goes down, that content is lost. On the fediverse, as long as it has propagated across the network it can be found on other instances (the content being comments in this case, not offsite-linked materials).
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 5 days ago:
Not broken, working as intended (for them). They just happened to say the quiet part out loud this time.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 6 days ago:
This is all according to plan for Google tho. What could be better than having everyone sign up for the GoogleNet? We’ll finally back to the ways of pre-Internet AOL and Compuserve.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 6 days ago:
Ever since search engine “optimization” became a thing — which was not long after the Internet was opened to the public in the ‘90s.
- Comment on Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel 'fake' 1 week ago:
_bots are making social media ̶f̶e̶e̶l̶ 'fake' _
FTFY - Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 1 week ago:
Don't tempt them. It's hard enough to cross the street as it is.
- Comment on Look at that plumage, bro. 1 week ago:
I bet he just reads it for the articles.
- Comment on 22 Unspoken Rules Your Florida Neighbors Are Judging You On Without Saying a Word - Mindfully American 1 week ago:
Wow that whole website is like one big shitpost -- but I don't think intentionally.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Then you get to load and execute 10MB of JavaScript while another 5MB of ad content loads and displays in the background. With the obligatory two dozen API calls to various trackers, counters, taggers, and “optimizers” in the background of course.
- Comment on Longest comment chain! 1 week ago:
I feel like we can do better than this.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Sounds like the Internet in the 90s.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
The AI companies are doing something different and possibly worse by stuffing all of the open sites full of AI slop and then re-training their models on said slop.
Wasn’t there some mythological figure that was doomed to eat its own excrement or something?
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Well at least there’s the fediverse, onion routing, nostr ID management, simplex and others. It’s not quite a Plan B, and definitely takes some effort, but is much much better than nothing.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
You can tell they’re scared of it because they immediately tried to retract/clarify the statement.
Though IDK why they’d care this point since the Supreme Court already declared Google a monopoly and turned around and said they weren’t abusive enough and gave them no punishment.
- Comment on Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ 1 week ago:
Well they don't get all the credit. Oh, wait, they control how much of the market? Ok, nevermind.
(the DOJ says 91%. Google somehow claims it's only 10%, to which I literally LOL'd).
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- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 1 week ago:
Maybe a browser plugin/extension would be better in your case then? That would actually probably be not too hard to vibe-code if you're so inclined.
- Comment on Unified Fediverse App - a browser solution? 1 week ago:
I've seen this ask come up a number of times now -- and to a certain extent, the Piefed and Mbin frontends do kinda to it already in that you can have your microblog and threaded content in the same UI. But before taking that further with pixelfed/loops integration as well, ask whether it's really a good idea. There's a reason why Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit are separate sites, and why none have tried to implement the UI or feature set of the other. I would make the case that the fediverse would really benefit from a portable user IDs auth system that could be used between different services or instances (which Nostr kinda does, and there are other zero-knowledge proof-based services that could be integrated), but with regard to content display and just interacting with content, having 3 different tabs open with the 3 different kinds of content/conversations just makes a lot more sense to me.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 0 comments
- Comment on Looks like nuclear fusion is picking up steam 2 weeks ago:
No pun intended?
- Comment on A Fediverse Permaculture 3 weeks ago:
I wonder, do instance admins or community mods ever have (virtual) meetups? That might be therapeutic and could possibly expose problems before they become too big to solve.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Are you advocating going back to reddit?
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
truly you are doing the Lord's work
- Comment on Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it's well understood that homo didn't just magically start existing and that caused all of its ancestors to suddenly disappear, but the headline makes it seem like that part was in doubt. (FWIW, I originally read the "staggering" part to be the find itself -- like, what are the odds that you find a cache of various ancient hominid teeth together?)
- Comment on Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved from 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, agreed. I originally read the "staggering" part to be the find itself, not the confirmation of the already well-regarded theory of contemporary existence, but I definitely see what you mean here.
- Staggering Finds Show Early Humans Lived Alongside the Very Apes They Evolved fromwww.goodnewsnetwork.org ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to archaeology@mander.xyz | 9 comments
- Comment on Side effect 3 weeks ago:
Some things ought not be meddled with.
- Comment on 🚨 PLATYPUS PSA 🚨 4 weeks ago:
I hope to have to use this information someday.