I stopped using Hangouts when that happened too… Then I realized that Google Chat was almost identical, so I just started using that instead. Didn’t have to migrate data or anything 🤷♂️
I stopped using Hangouts when that happened too… Then I realized that Google Chat was almost identical, so I just started using that instead. Didn’t have to migrate data or anything 🤷♂️
I can’t speak for anyone else, but I haven’t been back to reddit since the blackouts started. No desire to.
“Landed gentry”… Because that’s what I think about when I think about unpaid employees.
Can we stop trying to coin cute terms like “enshittification”? What that term describes is just capitalism working as intended.
There is a term that describes this behavior that we’ve been using for at least decades (to describe behavior that has happened since the inception of capitalism): rent seeking.
I try to, then someone says some shit that I couldn’t understand and I get pissed off and angrily turn them on. I’ve been making a point (in games and in TV/movies) to try to keep my eyes on the top half of the screen while people talk, only glancing down at the words if someone says something I didn’t catch.
It’s a hard habit to break.
I think it would be incredibly naive and foolish to believe Meta has any kind of pure motives for this.
One of the biggest corporations in the world reaching out to its competitor to try to get them to talk “off the record” about “confidential details”… Sounds like a pretty blatant scheme to get them to reveal confidential details about their competitor’s product.
Or maybe Meta has broken with decades of its own conduct, and several centuries of capitalism, in order to reach out in good faith to their competitor. LOL.
I’m sure they’re watching the reddit situation very closely.