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A week in, Threads has lost half of its active users
  • They collect all kinds of data, and it's tied to users Instagram account. There are tons of data that could indicate given users geographical location without IP (gps, phone service provider, credit card uses, user profile, etc.)

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    LG to offer subscriptions for already purchased appliances and televisions, evolving into a provider for “Home as a Service”
  • Their gadgets built their fame because they just worked and were built like a tank. My grandparents had their stuff (from Goldstar era) and they still keep chugging.

    None of this "as a service" bs will please the lifetime customers.

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    So where are we all supposed to go now? - The Verge
  • As I saw it, Discord is a replacement for IRC (for text) + Mumble (for voice), and they succeeded despite problems all proprietary platforms share. Now, I can understand subreddits (or communities now) having a chatroom like Discord for contingencies, but replacing forums?

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    Are you going to try Meta's Threads?
  • Assuming they don't mess with fediverse protocols, here's hoping that I could interact with their users without using Meta's proprietary apps, when it's absolutely necessary. (This is separate from mastodon instances choosing to defederate from Meta servers)

    If anyone is chiming in with "just plain don't", I'm talking of situations like Spanish speaking countries where every single fucking thing is done through whatsapp. Everything. There's no avoiding it.

    If I can use a self hosted instance and foss app to talk to the borg instead of their borgware, that's a tiny point in my favor.

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    You cant even avoid irrelevant results with "site:" anymore
  • Catering to natural language search queries are fine, I used to think, as long as we could optionally use our search operators.

    Now they took the operators away, and all search results are either blatant ads or SEO spams pretending not to be spams.

    Fuck.

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    So where are we all supposed to go now? - The Verge
  • I had a fight over this. For me, it was natural to have a distinction between chat, an instant, forgetful and private messaging platform, and websites, a more permanent and open repository.

    Some disagreed hard and insisted discord was working just fine for them. Am I becoming the dinosaur?

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    We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is.
  • Email analogy is good to explain the systems architecture, but it still doesn't communicate ethics of proper use (decentralization). Just look how many people have gmail or outlook as their mail account.

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