It's actually three medium-sized online platforms in a trench coat.

Meta entering this space is not something to celebrate. They don’t care in the slightest about fair play or open standards. They will use this as an opportunity to monopolise the fediverse (they have a strong track record for this) and push out open platforms in favour of their proprietary, data harvesting shit. Trusting Meta will be catastrophic for the fediverse.

This blog post explains in a bit more detail how this is a problem: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Elon Musk says something fucking stupid, must be Tuesday.

I don’t think the idea is that it doesn’t matter, I think the idea is that if you disagree with someone, you should put some effort into it. On Reddit, the downvote function only really works to hide and punish opinions that the community sees as bad, which doesn’t really contribute very much in that respect. Upvotes work for indicating agreement because if you agree with a point you probably don’t have much to add to it, and if you do, you can both upvote and reply.

Valve knows better than to put all of their eggs into one basket. Microsoft has signalled that they’re slowly but steadily moving towards a Windows + Xbox walled garden ecosystem, and while we’re not there yet, it is coming and Valve know that it could kill them off when it does.

Neat, another service that Google will inexplicably kill in anywhere from 6 months to five years time.

Another Google service destined for the glue factory.

Anyone operating an instance should defederate from this shit immediately. This is exactly the kind of corporate overreach that isn’t welcome here. This will end very poorly for the fediverse I think.

The controller was probably the least problematic aspect of the whole thing, and that’s saying something given that they were relying on fucking Bluetooth at the bottom of the ocean.

People keep calling this “exploration” and the people on board “explorers”. The Titanic is the most well-documented shipwreck in history. The site has been picked over by countless dive teams, scientists, engineers, oceanographers and historians. There is nothing left to discover. Let’s call them what they were: rich tourists whose hubris made them think they were invincible but actually lead to their pointless, avoidable deaths and a search operation that will likely cost American, Canadian, French and British taxpayers millions.

In short, no.

In detail, nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Better speeds, better access to niche content, arguably better privacy.

ITT: People not understanding that if they don't like the rules on one instance, they can use literally any other instance and that problem will evaporate.

Worship 🙏

If this is “cancel culture” the phrase has lost all meaning.

I get really infuriated at times by the lack of flexibility for the sake of simplicity in systems now.

Me too. I especially hate this trend of implying that your computer is a box full of esoteric black magic that you could never understand. I work in IT, I’m reasonably good with these things, error messages don’t scare me. Telling me “something went wrong uwu” doesn’t help me or the users I support at all. Stop insulting my intelligence and tell me what went wrong, or at least give me an error code that I can search for dammit!

I am convinced that printer companies make their products as esoteric and intimidating to the average person as possible on purpose so that they can sell expensive servicing packages to businesses.

Something I’ve noticed as an elder millennial working in IT is that there’s an assumption by older generations that because zoomers have grown up with smartphones that they’ll automatically be proficient with tech as a whole, but it’s not correct in my experience and I really think it’s doing them a disservice. They’re better than anyone else I’ve met at navigating apps/mobile UI and can be super efficient working that way but tend to struggle as much as boomers with more traditional computers, because it’s simply not what they grew up with and no one really sat them down to formally teach them. We’re definitely going to see more of the “appification” of common office tools and programs as the zoomers and Generation Alpha progress in their careers and start outnumbering the older generations in the workplace in my opinion. If AI hasn’t put us all out of a job by then anyway.

I hope we can, but ultimately this is the internet. People are going to be dicks to each other. We just have to be the change we want to see.

I haven't found one yet. I may start one.