If an instance becomes too dominant, users actually love it.
Example: Lemmy.world :)
mrmanager
joined 1 year ago
Some users just want to melt in to the crowd I guess.
I have my own domain and i love it. In fact, it's going to become more and more important knowing how to self host things. Big tech is extreamly preditory.
Oh OK. Well that explains why you see things the way you do I guess. :)
Cost of doing business.
So you can escape the real world into Zuckerbergs weirdo world where he can profit from watching and manipulating you?
Strong pass. I'm sitting on my lawn having an icecream. Fuck you Zuckerberg.
This seems like a very weird view considering the amount of people who have been saying that they communicate telepathically with us.
Could be future humans for all we know.
It was a while ago... Not sure when. But I remember the news about it. :)
Oh OK, thanks.
Meta and Twitter are social media companies. They have access to peoples tweets. It's similar to having access to these messages you and me are typing, except many people use their own names there.
It's not too bad privacy wise, just social messages.
Google on the other hand has the private searches of billions of people. Everything you put into a search engine because you are worried, afraid, sick, or curious about something.
Google records all this private activity and saves it under your personal profile, and then uses cookies to track every web site you are visiting on the web (using not only Google search but Google analytics cookies that exists on almost every website).
They also combine this data with whatever you are doing on your android phone, or what places you go to using Google maps, or what video meetings you are having with Google meets, what emails you have in Google Mail, what video you watch on YouTube, what calendar events you are having with Google calendar... And so on.
Then they feed all this data into algorithms designed to figure out what you are likely to do next. They sell this data to advertisers so they can target you with ads. They also send this data to American agencies like nsa to be stored and analyzed.
There is a giant difference here between Google and the other companies you mentioned. Google is literally watching moments from people's entire lives, while the others only see your social media messages.
This is why Google is completely absurdly in it's own class of anti-privacy. No other company has this amount of data about people's every moment awake.
Now they use their dominant position to try and take over the entire web, so it's not possible to escape them anymore using a different browser, blocking cookies and tracking, or using another search engine.
If everyone is forced to use their browser, we have lost everything good about the web.
They should be treated like the cancer to a free web they really are.
No no, that's not what it says.
They are removing this on Wayland:
Force Font DPI spinbox in System Settings > Appearance > Fonts
And this on both Wayland and Xorg:
Adjustable icon sizes for many icons in many KDE apps in System Settings > Appearance > Icons
I like it but would be even nicer with something more interesting.
Nothing is free. How would they make money as a company to pay employees and pay hosting bills?
All these big tech companies are free exactly because they are preditory on users.
Pay for good email like Fastmail or Proton.