I’ll be fucked if I have my search history associated with my payment information. Not that I have any weird shit in there, just that I know at some point what I look for and buy will get cross-correlated and sold to the highest bidder. Plus, data breaches. And bittorrent searches.
We really need a Internet native anonymous payment protocol yesterday.
I use crypto to avoid this exact thing
How do you use a public ledger for privacy? Are you just using Monero or something?
I use monero. Since all kagi takes is bitcoin i use one of those instant swaps to do a conversion.
Gotcha, thanks! So you can just swap Monero for Bitcoin without going through KYC stuff?
Oh, quite easily. I use trocador.app
Interesting, thanks! I’ve only vaguely followed crypto stuff, so not really too familiar with how it gets used day-to-day
I completely agree with his points but enshittification is such a cringey word
Yeah. Not really ideal to giving a serious talk or something. Though there really isn’t a single other word describing the growth-phase-to-monetization-phase shift that I’m aware of.
“Growth phase to monetization phase shift” is kind of awkwardly long.
Its not just growth to monetization, its next stage of 20% profit growth year after year, in this case in the end, sooner or later, one way or another, companies end up having to do bad things. So most companies end up doing bad things and society has to live with largely bad companies.
I wish there was a better way.
The welfare harms from monopolies are hardly a new discovery. The “growth phase” is called - in some contexts, at least - the “predation stage” followed by the “recoupment phase”.
I disagree. My parents, big Roku users, wondering why Roku was becoming hostile to its customers with policy updates that require a remote to agree to, ads coming through cables (HDMI patent), were able to understand the nature of the company at the moment through the explanation of enshittification.
Cringe as it may be, nearly everyone understands what it means.
They can downvote you all they want but they can’t make you wrong. It’a especially bad when people misuse it.
Oh look, the guy who likes to enshitify people’s timelines on mastodon.
Maybe you could try not following him if you don’t like it. 🤔
Tough luck if we’re on the same instance and I follow the instance’s timeline.
It’s still dumb to use a microblogging platform for blogging.
And how else would I annoy someone?
Are you on that particular French server? It is this a hypothetical problem?
He does what, now? Can you post some links/examples? Is it because he posts long threads?
Pretty much, yeah.
What kind of drama did I miss?
0x0 doesn’t know how to mute people on mastodon and/or has difficulty understanding that when you choose to see all posts on a server, you’ll see all posts on a server.
I do know how to mute. I choose not to.
I also know mastodon is for microblogging.
I guess rather than trying to look like the hacker wannabe 'cos my ego’s so cool and can thread my shit thoughout multiple posts to work around post limits I’d just post to an actual blog.
It would require a modicum of civility though, which is hard to find amongst keyboard warriors.
Sorry if I.don’t lose any sleep over downvotes. :)
Apology accepted.
I know you’re getting down voted, but yeah, he is being a bit of a spammer with the long thread thing.
He always strikes me as the kind of person that confuses his moderately deep knowledge of a limited topic set with the type of thinking that makes him an over-confident expert on a much larger variety of topics. Like when economists start making declarations about climate change science.
That’s common on people celebrated on a very specific field and why most Cessna accident victims are doctors and lawyers.
Mmm. Maybe. I think it might be because doctors and lawyers can more-readily afford their own plane. It’s not a cheap hobby.
…also because they’re the highest earning tier of the upper middle class, and Cessna’s are an extremely common manufacture with a lot of relatively low cost options.
Most of their customers are probably upper middle class types, very small regional airlines, and people who run charter businesses.
I’d assume that between the professional pilots, and the hobbyists, you’ll find the former has lower crash rates.
It’d be more surprising if their was a lot of garbage men, or teachers, who crash Cessna’s, or any plane.
You are right.
Imho he is and always was a pretty insufferable guy who makes some good points.
This has been the case since at least Boingboing times
