Post AMY205SgICTOJGeNuq by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
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 (DIR) Post #AMY205SgICTOJGeNuq by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
       2022-08-15T08:57:23Z
       
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       Everybody hates ads and wants to block ads - only as long as it's someone else, not you, the one who is making profit from them.I hate my industry and I hate the way it is funded, with no exceptions. Many decades down the line, and the answer to "how do we increase revenue?" is still "just shovel more ads down the customers' throat", or "just collect more user data so you can shovel more targeted ads down the users' throat".Companies like #Apple may make some extra revenue from their sales of overpriced gadgets, and therefore they could afford to build a narrative like "we're not Google and Facebook - we care about your privacy and we care about an experience with technology that is not overwhelmed by ads".But, as their sales of iPhones and iPads decline amid supply shortages and market saturation, even Apple has to fall back on aggressive advertisement policies, and pretend that they never said anything they said about ads in the past 5 years.How did we let the IT industry become so subjugate to the ads industry that nobody seem to even bother considering other business models?https://apple.slashdot.org/story/22/08/14/2015223/apple-finds-its-next-big-business-showing-ads-on-your-iphone
       
 (DIR) Post #AMY26djjltM2Ljkjrs by neglesaks@mstdn.io
       2022-08-15T09:32:46Z
       
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       @blacklight The last few extra procent of profit margin necessary to placate the stockholders.That's what brought us here.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMY2AkXUQE4ebaz3gG by neglesaks@mstdn.io
       2022-08-15T09:33:31Z
       
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       @blacklight The last few extra percentage points of profit margin necessary to placate the stockholders.That's what brought us here.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMYLc8OzhquhYxmX7Q by phoenix@firebird.zone
       2022-08-15T13:11:20.981211Z
       
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       @paullammers the fediverse isn't just mastodon; pleroma is developed on a selfhosted gitlab :)
       
 (DIR) Post #AMYRXmrURzVHK6Q98S by Gargron@mastodon.social
       2022-08-15T13:08:59Z
       
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       @paullammers @blacklight I'm going to keep using GitHub
       
 (DIR) Post #AMYRXnOSTPsIyLqTWS by tusooa@kazv.moe
       2022-08-15T14:17:46.497483Z
       
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       @Gargron @paullammers @blacklight then you get what you want
       
 (DIR) Post #AMZ3k3Muir637zdbzk by blacklight@social.platypush.tech
       2022-08-15T10:48:31Z
       
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       @paullammers I moved all my projects away from Github and installed my self-hosted Gitea instance a while ago already, but I still need my Github accounts because I contribute to many projects that are still only on Github. And I don't think that Gitea and other libre forges will gain enough momentum until we get proper federation support to fix today's fragmented landscape. And, even then, people who will migrate their stuff to libre alternatives will still represent just a bit more than a rounding error for Github's user base - if a platform has more than half of the market, then it'll be very hard to move the needle, because network effects are difficult to reverse.Similar considerations apply to Facebook and Twitter: all of my activity is almost on the Fediverse nowadays, but how many of us have actually made such a big jump? How many of us still have a Facebook account to be in touch with friends and family that are still only on Facebook - and I guess that's the vast majority of them?Sure, we can and should jump boats, build and deploy alternatives, and that's all very noble. But we must also be aware that these policies won't move the needle, because the solutions baked by surveillance-based capitalism still have their claws on 99% of the market.So, besides moving to alternatives, we need to actively fight them and push for the right legislation, so that the remaining 99% can also get a better service, and alternative business models also have their chance.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMZ3k3sSpYKkhqOoAi by neglesaks@mstdn.io
       2022-08-15T21:25:48Z
       
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       @blacklight @paullammers I have dead friends whose likenesses and personal writings will be forever out of my reach if I delete my FB account before DMA/DSA comes into action.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMZUMebwv02LVCm2YS by dfloyd888@fosstodon.org
       2022-08-16T02:24:03Z
       
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       @neglesaks @blacklight @paullammers That is the same reason I'm keeping my main FB account.