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SkyNTP Aug 3, 2023

The pioneers (tech giants) of this space hoard the technology for themselves. How is the next generation going to pioneer new tech innovations when they don't even grow up in an environment where they can learn about #generalpurposecomputing ? Because general purpose computing will be locked away from the public. This is not just a disaster for privacy and liberty, this greed is a disaster for the economy.

SkyNTP Aug 3, 2023

"When Schmidt and McNealy and Zuck tell us that we don't have #privacy or we don't want privacy, or that privacy is bad for us, they're disguising a demand as an observation. "Privacy is dead" actually means, "When privacy is dead, I will be richer than you can imagine, so stop trying to save it, goddamnit."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai

Cory Doctrow got the insight on #enshitification right, and now nails this insight on a dark age on #generalpurposecomputing that the tech giants want.

Pluralistic: Forcing your computer to rat you out (02 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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SkyNTP Jun 12, 2023

@liztai remember that just because you don't use a third-party app doesn't mean you aren't affected. You still depend on the thriving ecosystem that Reddit had, maybe without even realizing it... Mods, content creators, power users and fellow commentors, accessibility apps.

And even if we put all that aside, this is a clear signal that the user experience is on the chopping block. Expect more #enshitification that will eventually get you.

Now is not the time to put your head in the sand.

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SkyNTP Jun 11, 2023

@danieldurrans #lemmy can be crawled, indexed, and searched just like any other site(s). SEO and rankings might be an issue, but most searches of this nature are going to be very specific anyway. I'm not convinced google is actively trying to make search worse, but they certainly haven't innovated, and we are the end game of indexed search engine gaming, since it is largely spam.

Maybe searching Reddit was a crutch for Google. Let Google revel in irrelevance. It's time for a new search paradigm

SkyNTP Apr 21, 2023

@koen_hufkens html and email especially are quite limited technically. I think their staying power (some 40 years and counting) stem not from any individual technical capabilities, but from an architecture that embraced interoperability and federation from the ground up (proprietary email existed before SMTP and is now long forgotten). 20 years from now, will we keep using Google search? Doubtful given #LLMs, but even that aside, there is a marked trend of worse Google search results.

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SkyNTP Apr 21, 2023

@koen_hufkens the only web technology I have used for more than 10 years, and still using 30 years later, is email and html+http. I think a #federated revival is long overdue in tech.

SkyNTP Apr 21, 2023

@koen_hufkens The Golden age of the internet was in the early 2000's. We are now in the #enshittification age of the internet. We've possibly been in that age for a while and just not realized it, or perhaps it only came in small waves and we could easily find refuge. But with the #reddit and #imgur news, even this may no longer be possible. Just about every service I started using 10 years ago is now dog shit.

Any other industries out there that reflect this trend? Is there a way out?