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That really is the craziest part. Doesn’t matter much if we change everything if the underlying stores and OS still is not sovereign…

The fact that I cannot do banking or log into government sites without a phone with a foreign controlled OS and app store still baffles me…

I kinda agree, techy people will get around it and non-techy people do not install and use third party stores in the first place (does Samsung store count? They probably get a pass I assume). But it is still shitty and offensive and establishes a monopoly that the EU will have a problem with…

I have been thinking non the less to switch to other more open mobile os. I have tried a few, but my current phone is not well supported. When I upgrade in the future I will go for a more open platform.

I think if Google does this they kinda force devs in non-United Statean countries to develop their apps for other platforms too. If European government and banking apps can only be downloaded from United Statean app stores and the OS on United Statean Android phones are locked to only that store, they might have a problem with that…

Hopefully European government and banking apps become available on open source platforms like F-droid.

Aroace may still want children, just not have sex :) IVF is ideal then.

So long as FF ships Google as default search engine, they’ll be captive to Google’s fuckery. That does make it a FF problem.

That I really cannot argue with…

Reading my comment again, it does read pretty aggressive… But you acknowledge that alternatives exist, but still use the shitty option? Kinda frustrating.

Lots of LGBT couples have kids using surrogates, IVF etc. You are not off the hook yet!

I am longtime Firefox user and i diagree. Firefox will never be big or profitable and should double down on its fanbase. Being divergent from the norm is a feature not a bug. It is the reason people are still using it. Being non-profit and open source is the strength that will always keep it alive because its funders are its fans.

If a website stops working on Firefox I won’t use the website. If i really have to use the website I will switch to Vivaldi temporarily. If i have to use it regularly I’ll complain about it to the website support. Every time I use it.

It is worth being loyal to me for Firefox, because I am loyal to them. I won’t switch to chromium based browsers out of principle.

How is google being poorly optimized for other browsers a Firefox problem? Stop being a product and stop using google search. There are several search engines out there that are better.

I mean yeah, I got to see that too. I just for some reason thought we knew better and that things would get better for the next generation. Instead I feel like everything is getting worse. Internet is the most prosperous curse humanity ever invented I feel like…

Everything and everyone can be accessed by anyone. Sounds great, until you realize this means pedophiles get access to kids, kids get access to horrible ideas and standards and sexual content everywhere. I guess the content is just a reflection of humanity and its desires, the good and the bad.

Or maybe I am just getting old, but it doesn’t seem the youths are happy about it either…

That’s not rude to say, I believe that myself. But with a dataset of one data point I couldn’t be sure…

Its all clickbaity and fake, I find it repulsive, i cannot stand Instagram for more than a few seconds. I only keep it because some friends chat there. To imagine people spend hours there…

Yeah, I can see why… It is very sexualized.

So women get that stuff too… That’s kind of what I was wondering, if it was just algorithms. Maybe that is just how social media are these days…

How can they allow this and not expect it to fuck up people? I am so so worried about my nieces when they grow older.

Their cousin, the same age as the older niece, used to be a soft and sensitive boy, but he is so hard and calloused now. He already has so many preconceived ideas about things. I feel like social media pulled him into the world of toxic masculinity before he even reached puberty.

Actually, they don’t mean that bots are making content on the internet or interacting with anyone. They mean it is agentic AI doing internet searches etc.

Loud minority. This is the case for a lot of things. Pro AI people don’t go around posting content. They are busy living their lives.

Verge let me read the article, but then after i clicked a link to one of its sources, it wouldn’t let me continue reading… Useless.

It is peer to peer, you cannot ban or remove it, it is here forever. There are no central points to remove. It is individuals networking with other individuals.

Because eventually the grid electricity costs too much. If you consume more than the community, then the prices will be astronomical. Then it is profitable to build a power plant. If they are generous, they could even sell some electricity to the community for a “reasonable” price.

Since data centers will be run by nuclear power on-site in the future they will soon have both…

Lots of nsfw sites like manyvids use bitcoin or others. It works just fine once you get used to it. No government or bank controls bitcoin, making it and sites using it immune to shutdown like this. They’d have to take down the actual site and even that pirate bay and others have shown is futile.