spookedbyroaches

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Once a pirate, always a pirate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think a lot of people in this community consider it a lifestyle to pirate media.

Once a pirate, always a pirate in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you know what community this is?

What are your favorite niche Lemmy communities that you want to see thrive? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kinda stretching the meaning of pollution here aren't we?

This is Depressing in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What was the struggle 20 years ago?

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This is Depressing (lemm.ee)
 

Does anyone else feel as if it's over when it comes to really owning your own things?

As of now:

  • You don't have the option of having a phone with decent specs and replaceable parts
  • You have to have really good knowledge in tech to have private services that are on par with what the big companies offer
  • You have to put up with annoying compatibility issues if you install a custom ROM on your android phone
  • You cannot escape apps preventing you from using them if you root your device
  • Cars are becoming SaaS bullcrap
  • Everything is going for a subscription model in general

And now Google is attempting to implement DRM on websites. If that goes through, Firefox is going to be relegated to privacy conscious websites (there aren't many of those). At this point, why even bother? Why do I go to great lengths at protecting my privacy if it means that I can't use most services I want?

It sucks because the obvious solution is for people to move away from these bullshit companies and show that they actually care about their privacy. Even more important is to actually PAY for services they like instead of relying on free stuff. I'm not optimistic not just because the non privacy conscious side is lazy, but because my side is greedy. I mean one of the most popular communities on lemmy is "piracy" which makes it all the more reasonable for companies not to listen to privacy conscious people.

I wouldn't say that this is the endgame but in this trajectory, privacy is gone before 2030.

Is not that god damn hard. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It is almost impossible to make mastodon similar of an experience as Twitter was. I used Mastodon and found it kinda boring so I didn't even try. But I did want to use Lemmy since I am a Reddit refugee. I had a pretty hard time trying to figure out how to choose the best instance, where to find my communities (should I join technology at beehaw or lemmy.world?). I still somewhat get confused trying to wrap my head around the fediverse AND I HAVE A FUCKING COMPUTER ENGINEERING DEGREE. If you think that the average user is gonna confidently just make a user and not get confused at all the new concepts you don't know normies.