Like… it would have to actually work. That’s not a regulatory problem he can bulldoze.

Agreed, Feedly is excellent! Mobile and desktop

I’m thinking about this also. I felt the same about WF. I don’t want to invest energy in medium or another commercial enterprise that will just wipe my content someday.

I’m starting to think the answer is to throw away the idea of a blog as its own entity. Post your content in the appropriate community in the fediverse, and self host communities you can’t find or trust. Decentralize your blog content as much as possible.

Thanks! It’s a real thing I started IRL in the before-times, in the spirit of 18th century thinkers. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Society_of_Birmingham ) It’s the ideal I have for Lemmy so it made sense to run my instance using that name.

Agreed. Reddit is dead to me. This community is the primary.

Seriously. I cannot wait for the hype about these stochastic parrots to die.

Absolutely never going to. Even if it’s the only internet left post apocalypse.

Damn. I was just starting to rebuild my physical catalog so I could get away from streaming.

Can we just roll it all up in a big ball and shoot it into space on a rocket? That worked great in Futurama… 😉

If I’m reading an article on espn.com for free, there has to be some value exchange. I either need to pay to read the article or I need to be willing to be included in future advertising to people who have read that article. We haven’t come up with a better model to support free content on the Internet than advertising.

I would be willing to pay 5p to read that article if there was an automatic and easy mechanism to deliver that transaction to espn.com.  I want their journalists to get paid and I want the content to keep existing. But I’m also not such a dedicated fan of that site that I’m ready to subscribe monthly. The last thing we need is an Internet full of subscription paywalls.

So in the meantime, if the fact that I read an article on espn.com about rugby scores puts me in an audience of people who like rugby and this complicated web of advertising is going to show me rugby ads and ESPN is going to make money from that and that is going to keep the articles free … sure, whatever they gotta do I guess. I’m not sharing anything personal or private with espn.com so if they want to pass that along to 1600 other places so I can keep reading for free… whatevs.  It’s not the model I would’ve chosen but I don’t have a better plan to keep ESPN in business. 

Sometimes it feels like the EFF is the only one holding back the tide. Everyone should donate to EFF ❤️

Tailscale plugin for HA works flawlessly for me.

Nothing outside the LAN. Just Tailscale installed on my Synology NAS, on HomeAssistant and on all my machines.

From RTO mandates to Slack monitoring to spy cameras to seemingly-random layoffs, and now this… after the pandemic people realized their boss would rather they die than miss work, and there has been an uptick in union activity and more resistance from employees since… and here comes the AI industry to the rescue, to put the power back in corporate hands and squeeze employees. 

I use Downie (on Mac) but there’s a video downloader app for every platform. It doesn’t download the ads either 😉

Love this idea. Hope it stays focused on things that are positive.

Neat thanks!

This! I am getting really tired of being everybody’s beta tester.

Ticketmaster is truly the bastard spawn of satan and corporate greed, an evil so foul and repugnant that merely speaking its name sends chills through all that hear it and sends children running to hide under their covers.

I think they are great if it’s about 40% talk and 60% socialize. The point of talks should be to stimulate a conversation that happens in the hallway. If it’s just one way content absorption, that could’ve been done remotely. 

I desperately miss the networking and socializing and the people I met and the interesting conversations that I could not have planned for. I hope eventually my company starts sending us again.