At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

But the thing with anything that involves network effect (like any os adoption) is that the growth is very slow at first, but it grows faster and faster as more people get in. We used to be grouped along with “others” in charts, then came the “counted with less than 1%” mark, and it took a long time. Then the 1% milestone, then 2%, much faster than from not counted to counted, then 3%, faster than it moved from 1 to 2. Now stats vary from 3 to 5 %, depending on the source. It’s getting really fast, and will grow even faster. This is a very significant difference

That’s one thing that I suspect to be making it hard for the fediverse to attract users. Maybe lot of people are just tired of social networks and not in the mood to try a new one, so they end up just drastically reducing their social media usage and are happy with it.

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Institutions don’t want to or simply don’t care. Anything else said is just an excuse to give a good-looking response

Judging by the quote, they’re likely going to bluesky. They will say that mastodon has a too restricted reach. It’s like a pattern. Every time I see someone coming with that “there’s no ethical [thing] under capitalism”, instead of promoting the anticapitalist things or the most ethical choices, they use the phrase to justify using another capitalist thing.

reaching milestones always feel like the first time (╥_╥)

Suddenly realizing I use linux for more than 10 years

[despair noises]

Most of the criticism onlyoffice faces is due to their shady handling of open source. Another group forking and developing over it has potential to be great for us, if they’re more open and transparent.

When they close, it will be a huge loss of information in the internet…

The big tech is, indeed, trying to extend their reach to linux and open source in general, but it’s still the best we have, and it still goes against them. The good thing about open source is that it’s resilient and highly adaptable. A few distros have been making experiments with other kernels, and if things go too bad, they might replace linux with anther one and we will persevere. It’s also possible for some group to fork linux and create a parallel community version, like happens with a lot of open source software developed by big tech companies. But you don’t need to worry, because linux remains fine and will probably be for a good while.

Degoogle, my people, degoogle…

Don’t try it all at once. Do it in steps, starting with simple things, like a different search engine, using local docs or foss cloud service, replacing google apps, trying a different email service,etc

Don’t overthink it. There’s nothing perfect. Just try any alternative and stick to it if you like it. But overcome the inertia, try something. The less users they have, the less powerful they will be. And don’t fall for the trap of thinking that it doesn’t matter or doesn’t make a difference, because that’s what benefits them in the end. Remember, the most important thing is to overcome the inertia.

I don’t know how online banking access is around the world, but here in brazil, they made it completely impractical to use from computers by applying artificial restrictions. Some payment institutions doesn’t even support access from computers anymore. Meanwhile, accessing from the phones has been made easier and less restrictive, so basically everyone has to do banking from the phone. It has even become a popular thing to have a separate “banking phone” to use at home, but many people can’t affort that.

Their strategy:

• announce they will make extreme restrictions
• people get crazy over it and backlash
• announce that they’re listening to people and will soften the proposed restrictions
• people relax and accept the restrictions, while the media portray them as the good guys

But what if they starting requiring that you remove the sideloaded apps? We’re getting trapped

So, we will have to enable developer mode for that? How long before banking and government apps refuse to run if you have “sideloaded” apps installed? This will be the same as not allowing the majority of people to sideload. No win in here, just an advanced strategy from google to make us conform

This user ducks

Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money

People talk a lot about software enshittification, but hardware enshittification is also a thing!

Yes. Linux plays the long game instead of seeking short-term profits. Linux isn’t even an OS per se, neither is a unified product from one company, and that exactly why I think it will outlast the proprietary products because it’s adaptable, resilient to changes. the only challenge linux faces is hardware getting locked down…