I feel like we’re regressing back to the Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer browser war days, when browsers were openly and intentionally breaking functionality on competing sites.
You’re right. It does have the same energy to it, doesn’t it? But of course, it also feels like that kind of regression permeates nearly every layer of society now, which is really sad. We should get angry before it’s too late.
Some of us have been fucking furious for over two decades now and it hasn’t done shit except increase our blood pressure and having all the dumb fucking dimwits around us acting like we’re crazy for being upset at how absolutely fucked things are.
I’ve been angry since my early twenties. I’m in my forties now and I’m still angry but guess what I’m fucking tired. Which is what the people in charge want, of course. They want us so broken by this system that we give up on fighting back because it’s hard to fight back when you’ve been diagnosed with a fucking disease that will bankrupt you financially.
They have us right where they want us, and most people are too toothlessly uneducated to even fucking know it’s going on and get so so upset when you get angry for good fucking reasons. “Please calm down” bullshit from motherfuckers enabling the shit streaming down our fucking faces. It’s fucking lunacy.
We live in a beautiful Corpocracy and you will fucking love it, god damn it!! Drink the Disney to distract and calm your weary mind. Consume more and you will feel alive again. Promise! Ignore the crimes of the corporations, without those you wouldn’t have The New Thing you adore and you wouldn’t be yearning for The Next Thing! You NEED The Next New Thing.
Its fucking sickening. I’m in my early 30s and it feels hopeless. Surely the masses can see the sheer manipulation and control that governments and corporations have over us. Why aren’t more people irate that They are raping the Earth to line Their pockets, fucking Us over in the process?
Everyone has been polarised into an “Us vs Them” mindset. Keep us divided and channeling our collective rage at each other, lest we actually find power in our overwhelming numbers. It hurts.
I haven’t really seen my exact situation & frustration put so perfectly.
I know it’s exhausting, but just reading this helps remind me that I’m not alone.
So just know, you’re not alone.
The powers that be have turned the common uneducated citizen into their personal army, at every level and dimension of society. It’s even in the way the Fediverse is moderated. You can be banned on almost every instance for being labelled a troublemaker by one top dog. Nobody cares if the admins of big instances are abusive.
Worse. We are directly headed for the Novel Messenger vs. Lotus Notes times.
Only the things you brought from your connector supplier will work.
Also pushing pop-ups everywhere, except this time they’re part of the site and we can’t easily block them.
I only use my programming for good. For instance Bat_Count.exe lets the user enter a number and then the Count from sesame street will count to this number and say “Ah ah ah!” at the end.
How many molecules in the air the bats are flying through?
One, ah ah ah… Two, ah ah ahhh … Hold on, this might take a while
Not with that attitude. There is no reason we can’t cultivate alternatives like PeerTube. No video platform starts with a massive library and if we actually want to take back our digital rights then we have to put our foot down and give a hard “no” to trading those rights away just because we really want to watch a particular creator on a corporate platform. It’s the only way to not only stick it to Google but also let creators know that viewers will not tolerate the likes of Google.
I think the hosting is the real problem. For something like Lemmy where it’s just text it’s not too expensive, but when you need to store and stream videos for free I have to imagine most people wouldn’t be able to afford that without charging for it and the moment you start charging you can’t compete with YouTube anymore
i think the solution could be a FOSS torrenting site where everyone hosts their own videos (or maybe a stream only site?). people are already willing to fork over for netflix so maybe if the content quality was extremely high theyd shift (e.g. nebula)
We need to crowdfund a starting base, and after that the site wouid have to charge something just be reasonable to not like asshole youtube.
“5E3”
I assume they wrote it as 5000 and it got changed to 5E3 by the minifier as it saves a byte?
This is so much better because of the Geordi template.
