Well, I doubt they plan to ever buy HP again.

Yep, yanks tend to think they can just police everyone into doing it their way.

Similar to Memrise, which was really fun when you could make your own mems using imagesearch and customise everything… And now is a rubbish duolingo clone.

You left out “throttle diaster information accounts when the disaster is happening” (Japan earthquake).

When the Japanese Earthquake information twitter account was throttled a few days ago, after the earthquake, there seemed to be this general realisation that they were not going to be able to use it for disaster communication any more…

So… Your values are…?

I guess it isn’t. I can get there by interwebs, but not by app.

“Nothing to see here” Darn.

“Everyone everywhere should federate.”

“Not like that!”

Dumbphones do all that too.

I have never really seen the attraction of Spotify. Music is accessible so easily in so many ways. I own thousands of CDs, listen to the radio all the time, and have at least 100gig of music files to make playlists from, much of it music by people I know. I play and listen to live music regularly. What could spotify possibly offer me that I can’t access in a more ethical and recogniseable way?

And yet labelled as a bot.

Perhaps we need an infrared thingy to change their label?

Yep. I can’t even see why, probably something in the stuff they deleted. How bizarre!

Yep. When I tried Mastodon, I gave up again super fast, and I think I see why now. Thankyou, very interesting.

Due to a lack of any reliable way of backing that up, I cannot convince anyone else using the opinions of a random on the internet. I was looking for a place I can show them with evidence, so I don’t look like a conspiracy theorist with a pinboard full of string and coloured paper.

They will if I don’t sound paranoid and can give rational answers backed up with real articles that aren’t conspiracy sites. Much of my family are teachers, everyone has at least one university degree, and is capable of rational thought and critical thinking. They just don’t see a reason to switch. I need to put forward a reason that is worth their time.

I have been using Telegram for… A really long time. A decade? Maybe not that long. But yeah, no reason to change from what works for me. You’re right about that.

Signal and Matrix(?) and the others all seem to be a recent development, and although I have downloaded a few, no one else has them or has heard of them, so their directories are empty as I have never found anyone who wants to connect that way. It means I don’t know how to use or teach older people how to use the software. I am trying to find a simple evidence-based way to encourage my family to change their minds, but it appears it will only make me look paranoid, so probably won’t try.

Then you are many decades out of date.

Capitalism is all about waste.

Clear sticky tape does the trick.