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https://slrpnk.net/post/26226021

"Delete mails and posts to save water"

I think we all need to find the balance between a server or water footprint and documenting: our life, our communities, our movements and resistances and the net or even Usenet. or keep as evidence, witnessing, testimony.

I still appreciate and find insights in reading old Usenet newsgroups. They made me queer and poly and w HG at not back then, sort of. A nice mirror, or tool for thinking, or a balsam in hard times.

Cryptocurrency and ai definitely need to have water in rations or not at all.

Don't stop writing love letters to save trees. The culprits are elsewhere, and I don't even mean toilet paper. Shitty analogy, pun intended.

#internet #enshitification

Who do you think we all should follow on the Fediverse and why?

I start with recommending @pluralistic
Because of

#enshitification #SF #writers #copyright #copywrong #CreativeCommons #DRM

#Mastodon

Yahoo recently reduced the free inbox size from 1Tb to 20 Gb. Even after deleting 100,000+ emails, I’m still over the limit. There’s just no point in keeping this trash account anymore… it’s been 24 years, but it’s time to move on.

#Email #Enshitification #Grumbling

@TheBulletin
After the DEFCON talk, I was excited to switch OS on my Pixel phone. But, after backing up and wiping everything I found out the bootloader is hard locked by Verizon.
🥲 Really don't want to buy a new phone so I'll keep this Pixel 7 until it breaks.

It did give me a chance to be more aware of the apps I use and how to get back into my phone if I were to lose access to all my accounts.

No graphene OS for me so I'm looking at F-Droid, fediverse, and other FOSS apps to try out and start fresh. Finally made a mastodon account and getting excited about exploring a better side of the tech future.
#techreclaimers #enshitification #righttorepair

In the beginning it was prophesied that the #Internet would become a Gutenberg Press for all. That it would be a great tool for the democratization of ideas, voices, and writingsg. But what we ended up with was millions thrown into a "enshiitified Gulag" of monetized consumers imprisoned by greedy, controlling corporations

#enshitification