Dsklnsadog
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- Comment on Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead 1 week ago:
We need to stop using Reddit, WhatsApp, and YouTube… but we can’t.
That’s the real problem. These platforms stopped being “apps” a long time ago. They’re infrastructure now. Reddit is search results, tech support, product reviews, niche communities. WhatsApp is family, work, school, doctors, landlords. YouTube is tutorials, education, news clips, repairs, entertainment, background noise.
You can quit a bad product. You can’t easily quit a social standard.
And that’s exactly why they get away with so much. The cost of leaving isn’t just losing features; it’s losing access to people, knowledge, and convenience. Alternatives exist, but the network effect keeps dragging everyone back.
So yeah, we should stop using them. But realistically, the better first step is reducing dependence: use RSS, forums, Signal, PeerTube/Invidious, proper documentation, personal websites, mailing lists, and local backups wherever possible.
Not because purity is achievable, but because total dependence is dangerous.
- Comment on WhatsApp is testing a premium subscription, but it is mainly cosmetic 4 weeks ago:
Oh, they definitely thought it through… and then realized they could probably get more than a dollar out of us.
- Comment on Google Messages, Apple testing encrypted RCS on Android & iOS 26.4 2 months ago:
F them
- Comment on Employees regularly paste company secrets into ChatGPT 7 months ago:
If companies like OpenAI were more astute, they would recognize that they can accumulate sufficient information to compete in other markets and evolve into technology firms capable of outpacing their competitors. If managed properly, they could even frame it as a form of reverse engineering. And if everything related to AI were truly just a bubble that eventually burst, it would make little difference whether they began as AI companies, since their ultimate purpose could shift over time.
- Comment on Adobe turns subscription screw again, telling users to pay up or downgrade 11 months ago:
At this point we know the users are in fault
- Comment on Tidal updates terms without explanation or opportunity to decline 1 year ago:
Do what you want coz a pirate is free…