it’s the social features and the network effect. if you want to make a playlist and share it with your friends the easiest way to get them to listen to it is to host it on spotify. also blends, collaborative playlist, jams, and now listening all provide the illusion of connection through a shared listening experience. and it’s not so much that these things are better than what we used to have for sharing music, it’s that corporations have all killed our ways of sharing music. that’s what they really hated about groove shark. artists made more money in the groove shark era, but umg, sony, and warner didn’t control how we shared on it.

excepting wu tang clan, of course

thanks! i was sure there had to be somewhere

where has 9 digit locals?

I’m excited for both Piefed and MBin. Both projects are progressing rapidly and have communities that seem to have their heads and hearts in the the right places

good thing there’s not any sort of digital information war going on. i assume having everyone’s computers vulnerable will turn out super good

it shouldn’t be, anyway. unfortunately slavery has long been a way to make a failing business model seem more successful than it would be under a sensible system

microsoft pissed away all the brand recognition it ever had and turned it into teams. in 2020 it was poised to be the most important technology there was, but having received no updates in years, it was effectively already dead

This is a scenario where a single node VPN would reduce, not increase OP’s security stance. You do have to worry about NK hackers breaching your services because they’re all exposed through the single node VPN server. Same attack surface, less knowledge needed to hit the target with the payload.

VPNs are not a panacea by any stretch of the imagination. they are good for certain use cases but from OP’s description they would do next to nothing

Not random. This is a pretty common standard for most style guides that if you split a ternary operator across lines you align the option colon to the ternary itself. Your alt text formatting is way different from the pic by the way

and the nature of their 1000s of experiments going at the same time isn’t methodical at all. they don’t actually know what iteration of google search was the best and most useful one. there’s no going back to what worked because at no point did they ever know what worked. the modern shitty google search is the best version we will ever get to use again.

google embedded them as a core piece of information infrastructure and then demolished themselves. now our information networks fundamentally do not work anymore

time to switch to Qwant, ecosia, or duckduckgo

if one person doesn’t have due process, no one does

end of the day these big tech companies need us in ways we don’t need them

and thus america became that much more like russia

Staying put and giving Reddit money is the real loss. We fundamentally disagree about what the fight is and what winning looks like. Also I don’t know where you’re reaching your conclusion that there’s no technical information here. We have wikis, we have discussions, we have high quality interactions. But the core essence of how we think we take the power back on the internet is different, and we’re not ever going to overcome this, so I think this is the end of the conversation

we’re the product, not the customer. reddit doesn’t own anything of value that we can’t have for ourselves or do for ourselves here, or on other, non-reddit communication networks. they didn’t want us to leave, they wanted us to change behavior to match their vision. instead, we’re here, having this conversation away from their influence. we won this small victory in a grander fight against hypercapitalism. the real challenge is that the banks choose winners and losers

what do you mean?

What a terrible terrible example. Bottled water is just theft