@taylorlorenz i love open web but it’s not 2008 anymore to get excited about app that wants to close it within its own boundaries to monetize on the engagement.

so to sum up I’m up for open web, but I would finally like to see Web 2.0 apps and services dying instead or rebounding

@txtx @hollowone @taylorlorenz

"Any software coming from a Californian/US corporation is essentially toxic to me."

Imo judging any actor by external attributes that they either can do little about or aren't particularly meaningful to the thing being judged. Judging people by ethnicity, religion, gender is obviously toxic. Judging them by region of origin is certainly more unusual, but still toxic imo.

@frog_reborn Ah yes, America, where money is religion and corporations are an ethnicity that I *must* respect and purchase from.

Not a single US CEO, from California or elsewhere, has spoken out against Trump. Many have supported him. And those people want to split up my continent. They're against me.

I don't need to care the slightest bit about US commercial interests.

@hollowone @taylorlorenz

@txtx @hollowone

No, you don't need to buy from US companies or respect the US' commercial interest. But you also don't need to act like every person setting up a company in the US is some weird automaton that can't do anything else than push the gov's or capital's line.

@frog_reborn @txtx

Well that stronger anti capitalism and anti US-corporate whatever comes from @txtx so I get this "no you don't need to buy from US companies..." is more applicable to that gentleman.

I'm more anti Web 2.0 app encapsulation for something that:

- is an open standard how to consume so having one best client that definitively tries to sell the same enclosing formula is not what I prefer. I'm not on Mastodon to be engaged in more than what I already subscribe natively in the mastodon app(s) ecosystem already in place. I find hacker news/lobste.rs fomrula of news aggregator much more attractive. I like web applications than apps.. I don't install mobile apps any more, mobile should be for calls not for screening time as my personal approach and all what made mobile toxic is to me originated from Web 2.0 going mobile.

Basically if I'm anyhow opinionated anti to something.. this is my preference. American or not. doesn't matter to me :)

And in the age of AI I can write better app than flipboard in no time for all of that bullshit.. SaaS and Apps are dead to me. Software should be free and open. Selling it directly and indirectly will die eventually towards agentic workflows that will create them on demand, so I don't bother either.

I have already eliminated lots of alien software this way.

@hollowone Just to gently push back, I'm not against capitalism. It's the specific US corporate software culture that I don't support.

I avoid North Korean or Russian products too.

@frog_reborn