Can’t read German so I’ll ask here: Does this look like something that can be or will be self-hostable with Nextcloud, or do they just want you to trade your US corporate serfdom for European corporate serfdom instead? Otherwise I’m just going to stick to Libreoffice, as per usual.
I appreciate your attempt to be serious, but I’m going to continue to recommend trial by ordeal and since you brought up the possibility of having it be conducted on Planet Neutral then I’ll support that too, I admit I don’t know where it is but I’m assuming it’s going to be a really, really, really long trip, especially at sublight speeds.
A very reasonable and sensible perspective, but what if that’s still not going to be a fair trial either? We all have pretty strong opinions about torture, so I think we may need to go the extra mile in this case. If no unbiased jury can be found anywhere on planet Earth, then we’ll have to send them to Mars for a fair trial instead. It doesn’t even have to be elaborate, we can use the rules of the good old fashioned “trial by ordeal”. If you can survive on Mars, that demonstrates you were innocent all along and you can come right back home. Otherwise this is going to get dragged out for years and years while they dig up even more evidence and who knows what else may get discovered. This is really the best option for everyone. All aboard to Mars.
I agree with you. I like the things he’s saying, the problem is I don’t believe them. Even if I were to believe him as an individual and his own intentions I still don’t believe in the others in his big tent, the party, the organization, the apparatus, the system, the environment. I don’t think his intentions will translate into real change. Trust has been shattered. Only real and significant actions will start rebuilding bridges and trust, and there is no obvious framework available that would allow those real and significant actions to start to occur. I don’t see any realistic path forward.
I don’t know how to reconcile this with the fact that I desperately want a peaceful, non-violent path forward. I want a white knight in shining armor to ride to the rescue and fix everything. But I don’t actually believe they’re going to come, and if they did I am starting to understand that they would simply be cut down immediately and wouldn’t actually win the battle single-handedly the way my naive imagination thinks they would.
Why would you conclude that a subscription based model makes them immune from corrupt financial incentives? Quite the opposite. That’s my whole point.
Up-selling and cross-selling. It’s just business. Who’s ever going to pay $25/month if the $5/month plan does everything anyone ever possibly needs? Their lowest level pricing model relies on making you anxious about running out of searches eventually, not finding everything you need within that window each month, and not having effective enough tools to find what you need at the basic level. You may personally reject that you need anything more than the basic plan, but the company’s financial incentive is to convince you of the opposite, and don’t think for a second that they’re not eventually going to try to convince you that you need to upgrade. It may seem like $5/month and $25/month are not that far apart, but multiply that across some arbitrary number of users, say, 100,000, and you’re talking about $2 million dollars PER MONTH of potential revenue on the table. And there’s no guarantee they’re not going to eventually start pushing even more expensive products and plans.
They have partnerships with other businesses too, and while those seem like nice enough businesses on the surface, they’re still businesses and they are going to have motivation to find ways to drive traffic and prime you to get subscriptions to them too. The problem is not that these partnerships exist or that there’s anything wrong with them, it’s that they’re another corrupting influence when money is involved and changing hands.
To be clear, I’m not saying anyone involved is evil, that they’re actively doing this now, that they are even necessarily moving in this direction, or that they’re even slightly corrupt at all… yet, but they’re swimming in the corrupting waters of subscription-based dark patterns and they can’t help but be influenced by them. The lust for profits will inevitably drive them mad. It always does. Enshittification does not make exceptions for good intentions.
No, it’s just trading one centralized search product that is free and profits by using your data and manipulating you, for another that you have to pay for and profits from you more directly but still has financial incentive to keeping you engaged and searching instead of finding. Run your own decentralized SearXNG instead and take it into your own hands. Search isn’t something that should be controlled by anyone who’s in it for a profit.
What if we compromise on fractional thousandths of a kilodog?
Release game for free on Steam. Surprise! All war objectives complete in 3 days.
you can throw away the whole bowl of punch.
Ok. Let’s do that.
Journalism is dead. Capitalism killed it, because they did not want any reliable witnesses to or records of what they are going to do to humanity and the planet. History is written by the victors, and they have already crafted their own narrative of technological enlightenment. And we’re not in that story. At least not in any way we’ll recognize ourselves.
Neither capitalism nor socialism are a universally applicable perfect solution. They both have noble goals on paper, and horrible failings in practice. Balancing the two, using elements of both, within limits, with regulation, with moderation, is the only approach that makes sense to me given what we know about both approaches. Like any balancing act, staying on top of the balance takes continuous effort and will never remain stable, sometimes you need to push in one direction, sometimes the other, sometimes you overcorrect. We overcorrected way too far towards capitalism during and after the cold war, and now we’re falling and I don’t think we’re going to be able to catch ourselves. But we’ll still have to get up after the fall and try again. I don’t know if there’s a better “third way” but if there is, I’m confident the path to it will be found somewhere in between the two, not at the extremes.
Solution in search of a problem in my opinion. I don’t see any problem. Lemmy’s perfectly fine the way it is right now. If there becomes some problem eventually, we can figure out how to solve it when it happens with a more clear understanding of what the problem actually is.
From the name and widespread newspaper ownership alone it feels like there must be some connection to Conrad Black but I can’t find it. Is it just a coincidence?
I’m a meat popsicle.
Obligatory “fuck spez”
Forgejo also has significantly more active development. Feature-wise, I believe they’re currently working on adding federation via ActivityPub as one of the main goals. I also think they have a much better designed and documented system for workers and actions at least at the time I went to spin one up. I switched to Forgejo and haven’t really looked back.
Yeah that was originally the joke, but then halfway through writing it I just got depressed.
We’re living in a horrible comedy