They’re pretty cheap too, just don’t get a Dymo, with their proprietary locked down DRM ass label tape.

I think you are pretty much agreeing with my message.

As is almost all the case when people say they don’t want “politics” in things. Politics just means whatever they don’t like/find valuable.

That is such an utterly awful user experience I am shocked it still exists currently.

It’s kinda to be expected for the thing only enthusiasts claim is super easy to use, but still.

My point being that people are misinformed about how much of the important work is being done by who.

The bills have to be paid.

The underlying development exists because the developers at mozilla can put food on the table.

We can’t ignore the fact that a project of Firefoxs scale cannot be held together by volunteer work and hopes and prayers.

If people cared as much as they said they did, they should be looking at how the public could buy Mozilla such that the enshitification stopped rather than pretending alternatives would be able to survive the wake of any of the giants they are downstream of sinking.

Web browsers really should have been publicly funded but we have what we have…

People do get that ultimately Firefox is paying rent right? Like if firefox goes too far, the much smaller team behind Librewolf is very unlikely to be able to keep up.

Why would they? Ram hasn’t been a problem for more than a decade relating to UI.

Electron apps being 500MB simply isnt a problem. People aren’t loading 15 seperate instances, at most power users are loading like 3.

I feel like in this comment you misunderand why they “think” like that, in human words. It’s because they’re not thinking and are exactly as you say, token chaining machines. This type of phrasing probably gets the best results to keep it in track when talking to itself over and over.

You are quite literally ignoring the will of the people who lived there, who lived there before the prior take over too, being ruled by some third party they don’t want to be ruled by.

How can you justify that?

Foreign imperialists consisting of residents that want their freedom who already were independent from their prior occupiers?

This is one way to say you don’t support freedom in a very literal anti democracy sense.

Less than half a decade ago with Hongkong…

Are our blindspots this wide?

Thats actually just pop science and a misunderstanding on one studies wording.

We’ve not reason to believe there is any sudden stoppage of development vs trailing off.

I assume we also blame Chinese citizens for everything the CCP does too or does that only apply to western nations.

Does it even apply for all western nations? What about Norway?

Well, until you start following people you like the content of, of course no algorithm will have good suggestions for you, so youll get a generic one hoping that you like something eventually and thus it can fine tune.

Didn’t people leave it for BlueSky?

A small number of people yes, but most influencers remain on Twitter or use both.

I should also point out that BlueSky is backed by crypto bros and they’ve never had any intentions of improving anything the way the people who want to move moved things.

They ran on the idea of decentralization but ultimately BlueSky is, in practice, completely centralized and its not possible to decentralize it. You can run your own instance, but that would just be a separate centralized instance as opposed to any sort of meaningful federation.

I can’t figure out how to use BlueSky… could never get Twitter to work either, maybe it’s too Gen Z for my Millenial ass?

I hate to say it but… that has nothing to do with age, because there are old people on either. Its just a microblog platform like any other microblog platform.

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Opt in or out makes no difference for its affects on being able to discern where someones opinions are coming from. “Just evaluate the arguments themselves” means trolls insta-win.

may only be a deterrent to tech illiterate stalkers but better than nothing imo

This sounds an awful lot like “think of the [irrelevant group used for leverage such as terrorists or babies]” arguments.

This largely has not been a problem, and so to loose something much more important for it seems absurd to me.

It doesn’t need to. This is about the relevance of the platform, and it remains highly relevant.

Social media companies exist to control what the public thinks the public thinks (generally). They don’t care nearly as much about profitability, and its obvious that musk more than others felt this way, especially with getting exactly what he wanted politically.

So what? These are public comments. If you don’t want your comments to haunt you for a prior bad take, maybe don’t have bad takes or alternatively, explain them.

If you’re saying you put personal information there, one layer of obfuscation wouldn’t stop someone motivated from finding information. This only stops people using profiles as intended.