Try using reader mode in your browser (the little rectangle with horizonal lines on it next to the URL). You may need to click refresh. But also, maybe keep this tip on the DL because sites are already starting to catch on and block it.
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.
“Landed gentry”… Because that’s what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.
Yeah, Tunic on Switch is rough…
Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like “enshittification”? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.
There is a term that describes this behavior that we’ve been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.
It’s time for people to stop ignorantly railing against nuclear.
Fucking thank you. Are people really this gullible? Maybe I have a different perspective because I’ve been free from Facebook for like 15 years now, but do these people really think that Meta/Facebook wants to be nice to its competitors? Suddenly they’re going to give up the business model that has made them one of the biggest, most profitable corporations that has ever existed on this planet, and do the exact opposite of what they did to get there? LOL.
This is super naive. Facebook/Meta has zero interest in “playing nice” with competitors in any field. Their intentions with the fediverse are not pure, and you’re a fool if you think otherwise.
This is capitalism, and this is one of the most profitable corporations that has ever existed on the planet. A corporation who has made those profits almost entirely from the private data of its users (and even some users that aren’t subscribed to their service. That’s how much data they have).
They don’t “work together” with competitors “for the good of everyone.” That’s a pipe dream.
I think it would be incredibly naive and foolish to believe Meta has any kind of pure motives for this.
One of the biggest corporations in the world reaching out to its competitor to try to get them to talk “off the record” about “confidential details”… Sounds like a pretty blatant scheme to get them to reveal confidential details about their competitor’s product.
Or maybe Meta has broken with decades of its own conduct, and several centuries of capitalism, in order to reach out in good faith to their competitor. LOL.
I’m sure they’re watching the reddit situation very closely.