Big surprise, Not. But this was all before the new discussions in the USA about censorship. On the other hand, most users are still using tweeter, so why should they leave now?
Any thoughts on this?
Big surprise, Not. But this was all before the new discussions in the USA about censorship. On the other hand, most users are still using tweeter, so why should they leave now?
Any thoughts on this?
True. Lemmy is a great example of how it could (and damn should) be. Never regretted being forced to leave reddit in the apipocalypse. Yet, search? LaCy is the only one i know and searching is…challenging at best. I’m running an instance and also searXng.
Mobile, oh yes. My next phone will surely be Linux if Google will really fuck up android with killing sideloading. Not that I wouldn’t have expected them to do it sooner or later. Might be also challenging, but luckily I don’t NEED a phone, I just like having it (and for android-auto, i hate being forced into the car’s ecosystem…which now bites me in my ass).
WA is serious cancer, yes. The amount of “what?! why don’t u use WA?!?!”-faces i get saddens me. But fuck you all. My wife is on telegram (yeah, i know, but i need the API!) and that’s all I need. Whomever else wants to chat me? they’re free to do, but i won’t be held hostage on WA. And if people wouldn’t install an app for me (as i’m expected for them, but THEY are those that don’t care for privacy and such), i’m not important enough so screw them anyway. But I’ve often been schooled that in certain countries it’s totally unavoidable. But that probably just depends on your level of achievable freedom, so to speak. Wouldn’t share your optimism that they might cross a threshhold. Majority of users have not the slightest clue about anything or, way more badly, just don’t care (“I have nothing to hide!”).
On some level, I hope that certain companies would sever their ties with me, just like Reddit did. Before switching to Lemmy, I was already thinking of quitting Reddit, and that thought had been brewing in the back of my mind for a few years already. Then the apicalypse happened, and it merely speeded up the process that had already started years before. If the same happens with some other companies too, I’m definitely switching to some mobile Linux that happens to be most viable at the time. Maybe PinePhone, Ubuntu Touch, Librem 5, SailfishOS or whatever.
Currently, things are still easier on this side of the fence, so I’m staying where I am. However when enshittification inevitably gets bad enough, I have only bad options: annoying corporate trash or semi-functional FOSS. Eventually that balance is going to shift in favor of FOSS, and I’m ready to abandon several modern comforts at that point.
In the meanwhile though, several comfort factors are keeping me where I am, and I don’t feel any urgent need to switch just yet. I’ll end up being like a digital hermit, using software 100% incompatible with the rest of the world, totally isolated from everyone and everything. Well, SMS, email and Signal still works, but that’s about it. Don’t expect me to reply to any messages that depend on some creepy spyware.
That means that some people will feel like I’m pretty much impossible to reach, and I’ll feel like some modern comforts are impossible to achieve. I’ll be back in the year 2000, but I guess I’ll be ok with that. I guess I’ll just have to try that out at some point. Many years ago I did just that with LineageOS without GAPPS and oh boy was it a rough ride. Also tried a completely de-googled AOSP, and that was pretty brutal at the time. Perfect for an isolationist digihermit, but I wasn’t quite ready for sacrifices like that at the time.
If I can’t go completely FOSS, I’ll just end up keeping one Android tablet in the bedroom drawer so that I can take care of my bank stuff and other basic necessities. I wonder how viable that sort of life would be these days.