“In 1976, a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley published an essay outlining the fundamental laws of a force he perceived as humanity’s greatest existential threat: Stupidity.

Stupid people, Carlo M. Cipolla explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves, thereby lowering society’s total well-being. There are no defenses against stupidity, argued the Italian-born professor, who died in 2000. The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”

https://qz.com/967554/the-five-universal-laws-of-human-stupidity

Clicked on it out of curiosity. Sub is still nsfw. Second post I clicked was a veiny boner. Nope.

I think it all started with Zuck wanting to turn Facebook profiles into the "Internet's Driving License" or some shit about ten years ago: https://www.technologyreview.com/2011/01/05/197776/facebook-wants-to-supply-your-internet-drivers-license/

Don’t understand how people can still use Reddit and ignore all the ickiness.

I swear this whole "use the app" instead approach has become literal cancer.

enshittification all the way down

screw all that exclusivity shit

alert(“nyyeehh”);

i actually find the lack of moving stuff refreshing. All the platforms are moving to short addictive video. Reddit wasn't like this in the beginning, either.

Please don't gatekeep how people speak, thanks.

"Do you want to try the new Lemmy(TM) Story Experience? Click here or remind us now to keep reminding you until you finally cave to our humungous data-hoovering tentacles, puny little user."

GPT, is that you?

wait. they have something in their Terms of Service that prevents you from deleting stuff you posted? That sounds illegal.

i remember this overwhelming feeling when first playing Witcher 3. At some point I just said f it, ignored the thoughts and had a blast

"Tired of running your massively popular online service? Call BrandWreckers(TM) , your one-stop shop for dismantling user loyalty and brand reputation. Call now and lose your first 10k users for free!"

DroidCam ftw

"we can track you better on the app"

Surely it will be different for those paying for the reddit API, right?

"so, it's basically like email, in that everyone can send emails to one another even though they are on a different provider, unlike centralized social media which is also bit problematic when it comes to privacy-regulations such as GDPR section ..." blue feedy eyes

Alt Link: https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2031/DEF%20CON%2031%20video%20and%20slides/DEF%20CON%2031%20-%20An%20Audacious%20Plan%20to%20Halt%20the%20Internet%27s%20Enshittification%20-%20Cory%20Doctorow.mp4

feddit.de is home <3

This is the way

Why is this two year old post with +70 down votes appearing under "hot"?

weird. submitted it once. got triplicated somehow.

And what's that weird dividing line in the middle? Do they just stop and go: "nope, gotta focus on the East Coast, sorry bruh"?

“I slipped and programmed a pop up. Whoopsiedaisy”

"detecting hot content in your area"

Now they antagonize the press as well? Noice.

It’s bots all the way down…

i did, they showed as "deleted by creator" and now they are back. whelp. looks like there are some sync issues. (posting/deleting from web app)

Well said. Louis Rossmann made a post with a similar angle yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06rCBIKM5M

But yeah, the complacency is real.

It's funny how people are posting on reddit how reddit sucks and how there are no good alternatives, saying the alternatives don't have critical mass in terms of user numbers, while it's literally this beavior that prevents said critical mass.

People love to whine and talk about grandstanding. But as soon as there are even minor changes to their personal convenience, many give up and roll over.

It's sobering but have we as humanity ever been different? Radical change is often not driven by communities but by individuals.

Personally I look at it like this. Groups of humans are by definition stupid. The larger the group the lower the average intelligence.

Therefore I don't think communities can ever truly "act as one". Your best bet is having enough individuals that all have the wisdom to make similar independent choices. It may look like "the community" is doing something but we're still just talking about individuals.

Edit: words

I first thought it was a joke, but no, it’s legit, lol. Just makes me appreciate Larian more.

it is decided! "All secret meetings take place in the fancy room”

Mmh nice, nullives.

Because corporate enshittification aka "mobile first", "stories" etc.

snake oil

not sure if more or less, but the time spent here is 100% more enjoyable. With corporate social media there's always this vague sense of brain-rot going on in the background. Don't feel this here. Actually had some nice conversations over the fast few weeks.

You're running Jerboa on Desktop?

"self regulating bodies"