mariafarrell1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@SteveRudolfi/116279083767770070

If one definition of evil is its wanton destruction of everything that is good and whole in the world, then Google is an active agent of evil.

It is setting out to destroy the world wide web and steal the livelihood of everyone who builds and depends on the web.

I honestly don't know how to mobilise normies to care about and stop this evil. It probably seems too niche and incremental until it's too late.

Oh yeah, and in the UK an ex-Google exec is now running the BBC. . .

Show threadPerkele21h ago

@mariafarrell Obviously this is horrible, evil and shit...

... but, I wonder if this sort of bullshittery just ends up splitting the internet. Normies consuming what google injects into their eyes and the others enjoying stuff like The Web Revival stuff.

After Discord started to make noises about the age verification stuff, I had enough, deleted my account, installed a IRC client, found a couple of nice servers and channels and I have been having a blast. There's so many people who do self hosting, have silly websites powered by solar panels that sometimes drop off because its cloudy, have stupid neocities websites with flame backgrounds and visitor counters. Wonderful stuff like that.

I've been thinking of building one of those early-mid 2000's forums. I miss those. I just need to learn how to do... everything.

For me, google can do whatever the fuck they want and the morons can follow them. I'll be in my little corner of the internet with people. Not in reddit with bots.

Show threadcwicseolfor
@ItsePerkele @mariafarrell That’s great for the above-average nerdy (I don’t even qualify, but I’m right there with you) re: online time and spaces, but all you have to do is look at the state of the US (or indeed the price of RAM) to understand why evil on the internet doesn’t stay on the internet. They’re not just coming for the internet, and once they’ve immiserated or impoverished them enough, they’re going to use those normies as jackboots.
Mar 24 at 4:23pmWeb
Show threadPerkele17h ago

@cwicseolfor @mariafarrell

Well, I do have a backup plan. I have already scouted a spot in the middle of the wilderness, where I will build my log cabin and live there as a hermit.

... or die there as a short lived hermit. Both options are fine with me.