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   quat (steady and true) (quat@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:02:16 JST quat (steady and true)

   Trying to go open-source only by disconnecting yourself from facebook Twitter etc means you disconnect from a lot of /people/ too. The quick and snappy response of "you don't like instagram? well delete your Instagram then" sucks because, what, and isolate yourself from the friends you've made on there? The thing to recognize is that the tech oligopoly willingly and intentionally wants to hold our friends and relationships and wellbeing hostage

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     quat (steady and true) (quat@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:02:44 JST quat (steady and true)

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     They optimize for longer and longer engagement periods and it does *work*, like, people actually are using their phones more. People are used to scrolling and getting fed content from the content machine. You go delete Twitter and since your attention span is now garbage, the new *huge* gap in your schedule is overwhelmingly likely to just be filled by a different app you haven't deleted yet, because our lives have been hollowed out to make more time for apps

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     quat (steady and true) (quat@woof.group)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:02:44 JST quat (steady and true)

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     If you hop on F-Droid, the Youtube player app comes with a "this app has features you may not like" banner warning me that youtube isn't open source. The Peertube apps have no such disclaimer even though teeming with open white supremacists is a feature I do not like. So the open source ideology is useless here. I do not care that Peertube is more ideologically clean from the software angle because it is ideology filthy in the ways that matter

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:04:52 JST Rich Felker

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     @quat F-Droid has serious problems with the user base it courts too. Farmers, nazis, Christofash, ...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:19:04 JST Rich Felker

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     • Luka Rubinjoni

     @rubinjoni @quat Kiwi Farms users (people who organize online on the hate site Kiwi Farms m to harasses folks who are non neurotypical, queer, etc. to commit suicide).

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     Luka Rubinjoni (rubinjoni@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 20-Dec-2024 15:19:05 JST Luka Rubinjoni

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     • Rich Felker

     @dalias @quat Is there some context to "farmers" being problematic? Does it mean something else than "people doing agriculture"? F-Droid should have a warning for mastodon apps: "reply guys, sea lioning", but I'm genuinely asking about farmers.