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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
LinkedIn is not, nor ever was a social business networking site. It’s a data mining and harvesting site that recently added AI training data to the mix.
It is mind boggling that people use it, even before microsoft bought it for data mining and it was going through the users emails.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Its always been this way. Never said hello in the first place. But good to see people waking up to it.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 3 days ago:
In the micorosft line? Yes. Windows ID started here, telemetry, pushing their software, licensing schemes that only put you in control if you had a corporate key and so on.
- Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 3 days ago:
My office jumped ship at XP, it was that bad. We went to Linux because getting work done was actually more important.
So many things finally caught up, we did a lot of server client things with the Linux stack for field offices.
Now they call it the cloud. Which means it isn’t your server.
XP started the enshittification and it continued year after year…
- Comment on Immich 2.5 Released With Free Up Space, Web Backups 3 days ago:
If you are talking about using Linux on a desktop, then use DigiKam for photo management. It is far more advanced, because it is a desktop application and been around a lot longer.
You could have a workflow of a desktop environment AND immich on the server for the best of what they both offer.
- Comment on Getting worn out with all these docker images and CLI hosted apps 4 days ago:
Want to mention some? I have no containers using that at all.
Perhaps you never clean up as you move forward? It’s easy to forget to prune them.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 days ago:
I can’t imagine. I can get all of that elsewhere, video is such a slow delivery…
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 days ago:
How many quick short videos can one consume before they become tired of them? What is the bizarre appeal to that crap instead of actually doing something?
Yes I am typing here on Lemmy, you could make an argument, but damn you see ten short videos you have seen them all.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 4 days ago:
Because people have cell plans (and no land lines anymore, like most places) that they brought from their own country or region that a lot of the time a phone call would be long distance. Or have text fees for reminders, or a combination of both. So the solution, a long time ago, was a single method that has no fees for either.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 4 days ago:
Imagine if every state had a different cell phone carrier or go back even further to when it was long distance even just blocks or cities over. Now imagine a technology comes in that doesn’t care what carrier you are on, or if it’s long distance.
That is kind of what happened to countries. Especially if you have people who work in one and live in another or have clients in another.
So even though now maybe it isn’t long distance, or carriers talk to each other, everyone is used to the way they have been doing it for free.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 5 days ago:
Sure, I won’t use anything meta.
But it can be hard like I said. You want to make an appointment with a doctor, an electrician, flower delivery? They want your WhatsApp. You can’t make an appointment without it. They can’t fill out their billing system. They won’t call you on your phone because your number is long distance.
Everyone just expects WhatsApp. Makes it hard.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 5 days ago:
Instagram and WhatsApp… So hard to get people to stop. Particularly where smaller countries and people who travel are, where WhatsApp is the default phone.
So shitty.
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 5 days ago:
Yeah, I see that. I must have just been lucky with my choice of search terms. I concede, its worse. The AI function shows them though, which is due to it crawling the tags? I don’t know.
I havent used google in a long time, I switched to Kagi and it works.
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 5 days ago:
irony machine neocities
My first duckduckgo result was a scam result site for that domain to check if it was safe, lol.
Second result was the creators website page that linked back to neocities.
The duckduck AI result at the top however was a direct link to the neocities page. Interesting.
Kagi’s results were first result was the link.
I concede though, it is hit and miss with Duckduckgo, even doing site:neocities.org
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 5 days ago:
Well is that true? I searched duckduckgo and kagi something and neocities and both gave results. Bing did not.
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 5 days ago:
More than I would have thought, but, 1.5 million html documents on a single site - does anyone go there looking for anything?
I always just made my own sites, or hosted my own, a static site is easy enough. I wouldn’t want to be lumped in with a free site. Warned a lot of people that putting your stuff on geocities was going to be a bad idea, and they almost disappeared altogether.
But you mentioning Github really is enlightening, because that is the other super easy way to make free sites as long as you have the domain name. So if you had a free geocities site, but owned a domain the redirected to your specific page would it crawl it?
- Comment on Neocities deindexed from Bing 5 days ago:
Ok, same question. People use neocities?
- Comment on DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI 5 days ago:
I agree that happens, but it has nothing to do with what op said. They didn’t want a solution, they wanted a link to where the problem was being discussed so they could work out a solution.
People seem to really confure the difference between asking an llm how to patch a boat vs where did people discuss ways to patch a boat.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 week ago:
My point was that you would think that Lemmy users of all people would at least be more open to dropping the big platforms. If most of the users here are pushing back, then we really are fucked.
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 1 week ago:
And nobody care enough to do anything about, not even the consumers. Meta is building a new AI and data facility larger than disney land. They have the money thanks to face book and instagram.
But you tell people, hey if you care maybe do the simplest thing and quit using those products, and all you get is push back. Even here on Lemmy. They would rather their lives be worse than take the slightest inconvenience.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
Yeah I ams sure some people do that. But I wouldn’t. Some people eat dirt too.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
And you have a weird world view if you think being social is leaving posts on a forum to reply to some rando you will never know.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
Annonymity is extremely important. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. Nothing I say matters, nothing you say matters. There is no tone, no personality, just words. You could be a liar or a bot, it makes zero difference.
That isn’t very social at all.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don’t need my business. I don’t support people that do that.
If people keep saying “but I have to”, then fuck it, meta won.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
No. There is no valid reason to use it. All this does is continue to enable a massive AI data center and Zuckerbergs billions. Walking away is the only viable option.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
No. I am reading an aggregation forum, and getting clarity and insights from the comments. I barely am interacting with anyone.
Look, this term didn’t even exist until the mid 90’s and didn’t take off in common use until the mid 2000’s.
The difference is Lemmy is topic centered thread first, discussion last, where social media is basically a self publishing, identity first platform. People put shit on instagram and facebook because it is about them (mostly). Here it is just news/stories with comments. And anonymity, which is what makes it all work.
I consider everyone here the same way I did when I was on a bbs: they are liars. Modern twist: they are liars and bots. Everyone is bullshitting and saying whatever they want, this is hardly a social event.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
That seems to be a you problem.
That isn’t a problem, it is by design. I don’t want to follow you or anyone else. I don’t want to promote myself either. I absolutely do not want to make any connections with people here. I read the aggregated subject feeds, I get clarity or insights from the comments. And that is where it ends. Anonymity makes this all work.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
Social networking is about connecting people
Well Lemmy is not about that at all. I know absolutely Zero people from lemmy.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
What is the social part? I change my name daily, and dont really give a shit about people following me.
- Comment on I made a self-hostable frontend for instagram. 2 weeks ago:
Why? Fuck Instagram.