are we just ceding

it was a noble effort, but that battle is lost. at this point you’re just making yourself a target. not that social medias won’t relinquish your data to the gestapo the instant it’s demanded. which they probably did years ago

and, in over a year of being here, i’ve yet to see anyone whining about reposts!

i guess we can expect the inevitable mass enshittification too, soon…

how cheaply our data is bought…

ITT: arc shills

i tried it with bogus accounts just to see what all the hype was, and yea… it’s just bloatware pretending to be something “new” and “innovative” just to get suckers to sign up with their actual info

i installed it while i was bored in a doctor waiting room, thought it was the dumbest most pointless thing ever. deleted after 5 minutes and went on with my life

we’ve been seeing these “twitter’s in biiiiiiiiig trouble now!!” headlines for how many years now?

yet people refuse to just delete it

i can’t wait for the day i can go a full 24 hours without twitter shit showing up on every feed

nothing lasts forever without being enshittified

great…

lol that’s what i used before i switched to bitwarden-- didn’t have any complaints, but the database key file thing was kind of a pain

so the “no longer open source” means they’ll be moving to a saas model or something? i’m not super cybersecurity savvy but bitwarden is what i use

so what’s the best pw manager?

people wouldn’t quit twitter if they had to pay in kidneys for it

lol we use google suite for email, calendars etc. but MS for SSO. our sister institutions mostly use MS 365, teams etc, so we also have to have all the MS crap in addition to the google crap

i remember having to actually call an ISP to cancel, as there was no online option, so it was one of the rare occasions of getting a human being on the phone almost instantly and it was

“i’m calling to cancel my service”

“why?”

“cancel the service”

“are you moving?”

“cancel the service”

“are you switching to another provider?”

“cancel the service”

“is the bill too high? would lowering the bill change your mind?”

“cancel the service”

and on and on and on for 45 minutes

the problem is so many office workplaces use windows and google, so unless you want to bring your own computer and buy a wifi hotspot to take to work, you’re stuck on windows and google

sorry, i didn’t mean to give the impression that i give a rat’s ass whether or which social medias are better than others

i use it to msg people i used to msg on facebook before i deleted it