Screw us always more, why?

Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)

My only blocked content is a few people who I can’t be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.

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ok, but requiring standard TOTP 2FA is one thing. that can be perfectly privately and without any real issue.

I see at least three issues: the extra cost, the extra layer of complexity it introduces, and the almost complete loss of autonomy it creates. Exactly like with public transits in many places switching to digital tickets instead of paper ones, save that it’s much worse when it concerns our ID and personal security/authentication.

but that and mandating the usage of an app with built in snitching and which refuses to work on non google-approved devices are different things.

That would not be an issue at all if there was no requirement/expectation to use any phone or device of any kind to begin with. To me, that’s the real point worth considering but it’s also a point very few are actually willing to consider because ‘technology is always the solution, never the issue’ ;)

What I don’t understand is people need to hate it publicly and not simply just block it

Probably the same motivation as the need to promote it publicly and not alone bye oneself, wouldn’t you agree?

There are ALLOT of people

You lost me right there. ‘a lot’ is purely subjective and is not much of a fact. I mean, there are 8 billions of us on the planet. So, what is a lot? How many ‘people on the Internet who adhere to almost a religious orthodoxy to Left Wing values’ have you personally met ? 10? 100? 1000? 10000? 100000? More? And how (what criteria) did you count them?

Have you guys ever considered going an opposite direcrion?

Have you ever, and why would that be different for anyone else that is not you?

The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.

Once filtered out, it’s great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I’m pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.

if you self-censor, probably ;)

France and, yep, depending the bank (I have multiple), they all push you to use the app but some will not even allow you to open an account without the app. Even traditional banks will push hard to use the heir app, I mean.

Digital ID is not mandatory yet, but using online services can be a lot simpler using some sort of IDying and, at the very least, one better have 2FA, or something better, configured on the phone for any type of access that is worth securing.

Fingers crossed & thx :)

I don’t think I need to spend that much money on my current hobbies. But I obviously could

• A real lot of pencils, a lot of Bic and a lot of paper to write with (and to make paper planes, too). Like a good chunk of a lifetime worth of supply :p
• A lot (but already a little less) of top quality watercolor paint (that I don’t need to enjoy my hobby watercoloring), too many top of the line watercolor brushes (that I don’t need for my hobby either) and a lot of excellent watercolor paper (that I may enjoy using but still don’t really need for my hobby ;)
• The entire line of Caran d’Ache ‘Luminance’ colored pencils and the entire line of Faber Castell ‘Polychromos’ colored pencils, in multiple examples. But why would I need that many colors when I use maybe 10 or 12 regularly?
• I do a lot of scratch building also using… cardboard. SO, a 1000€ would buy a few decades, centuries?, worth of cardboard and fresh hobby blades too. But since I mostly used recycled cardboard from old packages and parcels… I won’t need to buy those.

Back when I was making scale models (plastic planes and tanks) I could have easily spend that In a couple hour in any hobby shop worth shopping at, buying a few fancy model kits, too much paint and some of the fancier tools, plus reference books. Or on a single camera lens, but that is another hobby I quit practicing. Or on some rare books… which I also quit collecting. It looks like I won’t be able to spend much money :p

Like with every single other day of the week: I welcome it and do my best with whatever it gives me.

Fuck that, if I’m allowed to say so.

• I wear a dumb watch that does not even need a battery (it’s mechanical)
• I don’ use a fitness app, I write my exercises log in my (paper) journal.
• My (electrical) toothbrush has no computer or wifi included, just tiny bristles ;)
• Nor have my notebook and pencil/ballpoint/fountain pen, and they don’t need constant recharge either.
• My phone is just that: a phone, without any extra app installed beside what I’m really forced to use (aka banking, digital ID and 2FA and password manager). No game, no social, no t even email.

They can’t track what is not there to begin with.

Also, I don’t want my life to be easier (is constant charging and updates and upgrades really that easier?), I want my life to be meaningful.

edit: rephrasing.

As many as I have days to live.

(Not the OP but an old dude myself ;))

• “Klaatu barada nikto”
• “Anál nathrach, orth’ bháis’s bethad, do chél dénmha”

The first one is a classic. The second one may not be as familiar but still is a great movie ;)

I’m not hardcore anything but I quit using Reddit and have not looked back. I also don’t use any other social, even tough I own other accounts I have not logged into for many years.

Why I don’t see myself hardcore? Because there is no hate, or anger and no desire to preach anyone to switch either. I respect people’s choice. I disagreed with a few of reddit decisions & their policy change back then and took my decision accordingly. I posted a goodbye note explaining why I left reddit and switched to Lemmy. The same with X, Facebook, or whatever: when I realized I could not trust those services, I told people around me and moved away.

I don’t date/wed a religion, or a god. Only a person.

That being said, there would still be the obvious limit that I would have to like (and be liked by) the person which, as far as I’m concerned, would most probably exclude some of the more… extreme religious beliefs.

I’ve known Lemmy for a few hours and I feel like I’m back in the early spirit of the internet.

Welcome :)

It’s a bit of a digital version of rural exodus. And since 2017/2018, I’ve noticed that everything that, in my opinion, represented the internet has disappeared.

This a very interesting metaphor, real spot on.

But I would say a lot of that rural Internet has not disappeared, not yet. It’s still there, very much alive. People are simply not visiting it anymore. They don’t dare go outside the pretty walled-gardens they’re used to.

But those people wanting to stay parked in their corporate-owned gardens, or silos, doesn’t make that small and more humane web go away. And would they chose to, they could still come visit it freely, they could still easily interact with their creators. They could even create and tend to their very own part of it, making that small Web a richer place.

They just don’t do it. Most of the time because they can’t be bothered with doing the actual work, or because they’re afraid to try and to fail. They want to be fed easy to eat content, not learn to cook it themselves.

They want the a Web that is like those shitty fast-food serving standardized and over-processed industrial food. Something ready to eat that is barely food at all but that will stuff their belly and, more importantly, that will never surprise them. Alas, this food is as much a poison for their head as it is for their body. They will realize that too late. It probably already is.

Too bad, because the alternative is still a thing, not that far away.

The small web is still a thing. Many blogs still exist that only share content their author sincerely care about or is interested in, that are ads and tracking free, that respect their readers… But the majority of people have quit visiting them, they simply don’t go outside of, say, YT, X, Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, TikTok or whatever where they can all stay together parked like the cattle they have not yet realized they have become.

Back to your original metaphor. Digital rurality is still there and many could easily own a small part of it and make it exwactly like they want it to be, and be happy with it. But they prefer staying in the large over-crowed cities, in small overpriced apartments like most their friends are doing.

Lemmy is a great alternative to reddit but it could relatively easily become another silos—just plural and not corporate-owned but silos nonetheless. It’s up to us to keep it open to the alternatives. I mean, sometimes I feel sad to see little posts & comments inviting people to go read/watch something they liked that is not already hosted on some corporate-owned platform. Heck, sharing personal content feels so much like a lost cause to me that I seldom share a link to my own blog posts: why bother? I also publish a lot less often than I used to, here again: why bother?

Just read the article, and don’t engage in whataboutery, or in asking questions that distract from the topic.

Thank you for reminding how to not waste my time, really.

I hope you won’t mind my question.

The main issue with Deepseek is about censorship and privacy as the review suggests.

I don’t use AI myself and have not read the article, but isn’t there censorship and privacy issue at play also with every single non-Chinese AI out there?

I mean, can I ask one of those non-Chinese AI to make me, say, a pornographic image based on some famous person, or would it refuse? Could I ask a non-Chinese ‘how can I make a bomb powerful enough so I can blow This or that (whatever one would not legally own)’, or ‘How should I mount a coup to take hold of power in my country?’ or would it refuse to answer any of that? And then, subsidiary question, would any of these questions be reported to legal authorities?