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Turn federation off and browse /all. 90% of content is the same 4-5 posters or very niche magazines that are full of posts exclusively submitted by the magazine owner. Comments are a bit more varied but you can’t throw a stone without hitting one of about 7 frequent commenters, which also includes the 4-5 post submitters.

Kbin is like 7 people posting content lol

God forbid you have to interact with a table to get information.

Should we make it a listicle for you while we’re at it?

Good thing you’re here to sus out the BS, otherwise we might all have been hoodwinked by OP recalling this friendly conversation at a store.

Honestly at this point you’ve spent longer trying to explain why it’s made up than OP took to write it.

Are you happy with the person that you are? I can’t imagine you’re very pleasant to spend time with.

You can shop online and still buy local. I’m not sure why you’re convinced this is an either/or scenario.

Personally I don’t have the time for a ton of brick-and-mortar shopping and my work requires specialized materials that aren’t made locally but often do require a bit of “shopping around.”

It’s not

Do you have any substance or is this just baseless speculation?

By uploading your consciousness to the cloud. Basic plans start at $4.99/mo

This is why I’m glad I disabled all the updaters and left the base version of android running on mine. It doesn’t access anything outside the network, so I’m not very worried about potential vulnerabilities.

Never got that ads-on-the-homescreen update, either.

That’s because OverDrive, a private corporation, has a monopoly on managing the availability and distribution of ebooks and audiobooks for government-funded public libraries in North America. (I looked for exact current numbers, but turns out that would require the time and resources of a professional journalist.)

We’re reading the same article. you’re allowed to like it, but that doesn’t make it well-researched or even good. i like lots of crap too.

Also what is everybody’s obsession with YoU nEeD tO PrOvIdE eXaMpLeS any time somebody gives their thoughts on an article? It’s fucking childish and entitled behavior.

Looks like the enshittification of op-eds/essays is in full swing here.

The author continually undermines her own points (via parenthesis! Because it’s so quirky!) and repeatedly uses a buzzword that does not apply to the scenario she’s describing.

This isn’t the same process of enshittification that happened to Amazon et al, this is just corporate takeover of our public services, which goes back way further than a few websites. It’s straight-up capitalist cronyism. But I guess that wouldn’t get as many clicks from edgy teenagers who think Cory Doctorow is a literal prophet.

the average citizen has nothing to hide therefore deserves no privacy

so what’s your point?

So what’s your point?

those aren’t issues, they’re features.

your instance should be curated in a way you agree with. new users should always understand what they’re signing up for.

Just off the top of my head, my initial reaction is that it really seems like activitypub is just not suitable for implementation as the base layer in diaspora.

is it a competition?

how does an individual win this competition?