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Oh no, through this article I found out about Bandcamp's enshittification. I like that Website to obtain music...
OK I read the bandcamp thing and... It's not enshittification at all. Can we stop applying the term to every online service that kinda gets slightly worse for some reason or another?
Just in case:
Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. I call this enshittification
None of those things happened with Bandcamp
As of today, the revenue share is still the same as before the last acquisitions, right? The entry requirements are the same and the discovery tools aren't worse? If so, and the issue is with the layoffs and unionization, that's true for countless other companies, especially in gaming.
Bought by Epic Games and sold a year and a half later 😩
Yeah, but I still post links to Bandcamp, even though they've gone down that path. One day they'll cross the line, and I'll start posting links to other services.
Oh shit. Are there any alternatives?
Faircamp is being worked on. No ActivityPub but the developer is considering it
That's really cool, thanks for the link.
Arstotzka so great, passport not required.
Noticed that. It used to be easy to bypass, because old.reddit.com allowed me to go there with a VPN, but they recently patched it. I found that changing the user agent to make it look like you're on Chrome and Windows, alongside with US/Canada VPNs tend to get around this, but it isn't very reliable.
Stealth used to work for a while, but not anymore either.
They are doing it to stop ~~scrappers~~ scrapers and punishing people who use a VPN is just a bonus to them.
changing reddit.com to safereddit.com works
Never heard of it, thanks for the tip.
What does a scrapper mean?
Sorry for the typo, I meant scraper. A web scraper is a tool to collect data from websites.
Oh OK. Thanks for the correction and description.
It's a tool that basically pretends to be a user, it opens the website just like you and ~~i~~ other users do. It collects the data (images text videos) just by browsing around.
They used to be prolific, but the problem is that they use a lot of resources on the website's end. Instead big website owners started offering public APIs which allow bots to collect data without taxing the server too much
Thank you for explaining.
Stealth still works for me
Interesting. I'll try with a few different VPN points.
Me too, some people have been saying it no longer does for them though.
I've just started to save whatever pages I need to view on old.reddit to archive.org. It gets around the VPN blocks.
Are you using a VPN?
Is this Chrome or a different browser I don't recognize?
Are you affiliated with any communist organization?
Yes, yes, and no.
I've heard Reddit is starting to crack down on people using VPNs, which is a real shame because that also means that open information (ie intended by posters/commenters to be universally accessible) will not be.
Reddit is now protecting "their" intellectual property.
Ironically, shuttering access is where the profit is to be had, as it gets sold off to Big Data (AI) companies for processing.
When I migrated to Lemmy, I left my Reddit account intact - just stopped using it. It included lots of tutorials, guides for things like buying a PlayStation Vita OLED panel, recorded Reddit Talks from the subreddits I moderated, the only source for certain bug fixes, and so on.
When Reddit started pretending this data belongs to them, and selling it to AI models, I replaced everything with gibberish and removed the comments. They restored a few, specially when they showed up on Google, so then I replaced them again, deleted everything, and deleted the account.
I had to redelete some of my comments 3 4 times before they went away for good. I should probably check again in case they came back.
Edit: Yep, a dozen old posts and comments are back again.
The phrase "data governance" is so hosed online. In a ~~better~~ perfect world, you would be able to keep up whatever data you felt like sharing and take down the data you didn't. (Obviously third party archives could exist regardless, but hopefully you get my point.)
This whole AI thing could, or at least should, open up conversations about being able to revoke consent in a corporate relationship sense, in the same way you can already revoke consent in a personal relationship sense.
Brazil did that. We have a new set of laws called LGPD that allows users to revoke the consent whenever they want - all data ever collected or provided to a service must be deleted. Not turned anonymous, not shared with Facebook, not "under the ToS it's ours" - deleted.
Heaven knows that ToS would allow companies to kill you unless the law stepped in.
Oppenheimer reference? Lol
the fucking fedora, the communist style questioning, it's like a 4chan meme but it wrote itself
The communist style questioning??????????????
They mean authoritarian but their language model has been poisonned by their invisible jailors.
"Communism is not le bad!!!"
You conflate economic, which this game isn't really about, with oppressive territorial statism.
cry about it
🤣🤣🤣🤣
It sounds like the reference is spot-on:
Pope also based aspects of the border crossing... on the Berlin Wall and issues between East and West Germany, stating he was "naturally attracted to Orwellian communist bureaucracy". He made sure to avoid including any specific references to these inspirations, such as avoiding the word "comrade" in both the English and translated versions, as it would directly allude to a Soviet Russia implication.
Use LibRedirect or Redirector to auto-redirect to RedLib public instances.
Their mascot even has a Fedora.
This is not a stop-and-ID state, officer.
Hands up
Replace www. With safe. Or you can get an extension to do that automatically.