That’s perfectly fine for some things, but for most people letting their browser choice dictate what sites they use is backwards

Did you forget the ./s or something? Lemmy itself is developed on GitHub, as are plenty of other “valuable” open source projects. To pretend nothing of value is built there is putting your head in the sand.

If you’re developing software on GitHub you have a chance at getting some useful feedback, bug reports and maybe even PRs. Like it or not, the network effect is real.

Future Idiots.

Patent Pending.

I fail to see the distinction:

story >> book (paper) == own

story >> movie (DVD) != own

That doesn’t add up. I realize this post is more about streaming than physical discs, but the point remains.

Proton drive has windows and Android clients that work well. I’d love a Linux client for drive and for them to fix the photo upload issue on android, but eventually those things will come.

That’s no worse than you started. The fact remains nobody is going to get 100% coverage of their contact list on the fediverse without Meta, so trading a Facebook account for a threads account is no different, and it ignores the benefits of that time when you maybe able to live without either.

Seems the second group is a vocal minority. This feature helps the first group, but doesn’t help the second group.

According to Signal, the first group is the larger group and this helps the most users of Signal.

Could it be better? Sure. This is still a good step in terms of privacy, even though it doesn’t really improve anonymity.

While it is an electron app, it’s a pretty decent one. Because it’s not full of tracking and other crap it’s pretty responsive.

Their web and mobile apps are pretty good. Its definitely not as polished as gsuite or office, but it’s still good and you are the customer not the product.

I felt like I had a good understanding of both htmx and csp, but after this discussion I’m going to have to read up on both because both of you are making a logically sound argument to my mind.

I’m struggling to see how htmx is more vulnerable than say react or vue or angular, because with csp as far as I can tell I can explicitly lock down what htmx can do, despite any maliciously injected html that might try to do otherwise.

Thanks for this discussion 🙂

Can you elaborate on that? I haven’t used it, but just assume if you host it on your own domain you can have it play nicely with csp, there are docs in their site about it. Where did it fall short for your use case?

In app ads are removed, but what about the tracking and then showing you ads on other sites and services is that also removed when you pay? I can say that uBlock still killed hundreds of trackers on my paid outlook premium account.

It’s already on the way, the office app “outlook” has a “new outlook” mode, which is this same web based version that only talks to Microsoft servers, so even if you use a non Microsoft email account, Microsoft takes your credentials,syncs your email to their server and then shows it to you through the web outlook.

That sounds awful. Imaging going back and forth requesting changes until it gets it right. It’d be like chatting with openai only it’s trying to merge that crap into your repo.

Agreed. It seems unlikely reddit will add new useful features to old, and RES has coverage on the existing interface and doesn’t need anything new so it’s not like lack of new features is a bad thing here.

That’s an old callback. Fun times reading those posts back in the day.

Delayed start, but from your phone, via their totally-not-tracking-infested app. That’s why it needs wifi.

Not sure if I need the /s but here it is just to be sure.

I’ve seen it a few times on different sites. Very strange. The strangest was when the different story was on the same topic, so I didn’t realize at first.

I certainly hope it gets there and they get what’s coming to them.

You’ve succinctly articulated something I’ve been struggling to for a long time.

We all suffer from enshitification because the “average consumer” makes it profitable with their apathy, their ignorance, and their laziness.

And then you follow up with this banger:

And there’s nothing we can do about that. We’re stuck in these markets with them, and they make up the majority, so they set the trends.

I hate it so much, but what can those of us that actually care do other than try to educate people?

I’m not so sure. Black Friday shopping barely kept up with inflation this year, but cyber Monday shopping was up over 12%, so while I’m with you in the minority that prefer a real quality store, it seems most folks don’t.