The monopoly tried to make them the same thing.

Lawrence Lessig called out their bullshit, or they would have gotten away with it

https://nohello.net/en/

Internet Standards.

The things MS tried to extend-and-extinguish the Web when it was just barely born. Remember campaigns “best in any browser” ?

We almost didn’t have an open Internet.

Fuck you specifically, MicroSoft

Your life is what you mundanely do every day

No one special day defines your life

(Unless you do something stupid like just graze the ear)

Google is such a shitty company morally

And then it treats you employees like shit

I hope y’all are looking for new jobs, quietquitting, and monkeywrenching

I share your hate of YouTube.

But FYI Odysee is run by a hyperneoliberal Trump-adjacent CEO who jokes with his friends about selling user data for top price. I’ve been in the room with them. Disgusting people

correct but it is ActivityPub so it interoperates, you can subscribe to Lemmy communities via PieFed

Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.

Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA

And similarly why you find a lot of Caucasians with Mandarin script tattooed on their skin. It’s cool, they like the meaning, and they don’t have to be Confucian or whatever

it is, their own new one with blackjack and hookers and more Python, less Rust

They did that!

Some of us Atheists unironically wear religious stuff because it looks stylish, because the words sound cool, or because we like and appreciate the fandom of a particular story, even if we realize people made it all up. I can wear Dr Who swag for the same reasons.

Lemmy is better because there are open standards and alternate servers.

Humans are mostly all the same; incentives pervert or ennoble us.

Centralized power and monetary incentive tend to the former

state murdered aaron

I want a President do declare Aaron Swartz Day a day of national mourning and shame, with hopeful reflection on the immense value of open source & creative commons. Maybe with a public investment in open source commons like browser or mobile OS.

Yes this is my hobby horse and I am riding it

which cancer is worse

all of them, esp when we have a cure (Fedi/OpenSource)

Centralized, corporate information sources suck

Fedi FTW

Honestly curious how you concluded this

I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

ofc this is Fedi so that’s just a list; there is no the list

so decentralized, so Internet