Dreamwidth is interesting It’s really fun how some companies are now reinventing (or coming up with a second version of ideas we liked the first time), using better tools (Context: it’s a blogging platform, like livejournal was)

Dude The fucking nostr bots

Facebook grew by being a combination of infinitely adaptable and also essentially practices of data hostage Ie they copy everyone else, all the data flows one way They even outright subverted people’s email addresses Zuckerberg is an awful person If they were forced to compete fairly then the market would decide It doesn’t hurt that in 2006 the competition was fucking MySpace with its tenuous network effects (and maybe Rupert Murdock) and lack of consistency and the internet was also really taking off

I wish I knew whether damus was configured correctly, I get no reactions on posts (which is fine, I’m not super interesting) except the occasional spambot but at least that should be a sign my relays are working

Google has the censorship problem everyone complains about but they were among the first on the scene to seemingly offer an actual usable product of search (of course it got steadily worse and is now actively politically captured), they’ve also come up with some really neat research but can’t seem to keep a product going Apple is accused of monopoly type behavior, although some people enjoy a device which is locked down (and for example hinders facebooks contact scraping of WhatsApp) and I think they take privacy somewhat seriously Both apple and Google were guilty of banning parler Facebook censors too and is increasingly unusable as a product; Zuckerberg is a bit of a slime ball and his company liked to man-in-the-middle your email address and replace it with a Facebook address (making data portability harder and also has the effect that people don’t notice messages people sent them trying to get in touch until years later). I think he’s a criminal. And yet the Russia involvement in the 2016 election seems to have been a hoax? So is Cambridge analytica just a nothing story? Why can’t we just fucking have one platform that does everything right for once?

I’m not saying absolutely everything Facebook is accused of is true, but the reason it’s such a mess is because people live in tech bubble 2.0 and they continually excuse the horrible things Zuckerberg does “because he’s a genius!” Yeah scale is nice but it doesn’t hurt MySpace shot themselves in the foot and web technologies evolved around facebook’s time When your friends join a service you join a service If they were in any way serious for STARTERS they’d fix the drastically non chronological feed

I feel like there was one thread on here where I completely messed up threaded replies and it’s really bugging me