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Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies(www.wired.com)

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Apps that offer to “do it all” will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

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django@discuss.tchncs.de
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Emacs does it all and is actually pretty nice though.

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TheEntity@kbin.social
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Emacs is more like a runtime for many smaller programs doing all these things, with common way for them to talk to each other. It’s closer to Java than to Facebook.

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Phroon@beehaw.org
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The good old Unix philosophy.

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pbjamm@beehaw.org
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Can I read Lemmy in Emacs?

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astraeus@programming.dev
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Oh you certainly can, does that mean you should?

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django@discuss.tchncs.de
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Looks like it: https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el I haven’t tried it though.

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Thrashy@beehaw.org
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You trying to start a war, or what?

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