Check out this article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus

That’s backwards, activitypub is higher level than websites. And you can literally make a website already and embed an activitypub stream

People get these confused a lot, but russia has 2 coups in the 90s-

1991 was a failed anti-reformist “left wing” coup that deposed Gorbachev and ended with the fall of the USSR and Yeltsin in power.

1993 was a successful right wing self-coup that allowed Yeltsin to fully consolidate power away from the Russian parliament and towards the presidency. More hamfisted and violent, but in essence similar to what is happening in the US right now

No, any CEO that tried to do this would get eaten alive, if not immediately by their board/investors then a bit later by competition from more ruthless ceos. In a capitalist system they literally have no other choice.

I don’t really see any way to fix it from the inside. Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better, and not by methods they’re going to like. I’m with bill burr here

If you disapprove of internet companies caving to authoritarian governmens, I have bad news for you about Yandex

It was by the largest (by a fair margin) socialist-aligned subreddit, but in practice it was like 60% shitposts. Was originally associated with the eponymous podcast, but the hosts have repeatedly said they disliked it.

they were originally refugees from the reddit ban of r/chapotraphouse (which, while cringy, was not nearly as bad as r/the_donald that got banned in the same wave. but the reddit admins had a thing for being “fair and balanced”)

yep literally this. don’t most routers nowadays have a dns server with a hosts file you can edit?

Did you know we have these things called computer files that can store information. There’s even one in your router specifically for storing IP addresses

This was me up to about age 24. I just read books instead

I wouldn’t exactly call it a children’s story

if it makes my dick hard it’s a woman duh

It’s also because the devs are communists. Let’s not skip that part lol

These guys seem cool but they’re not the archive.org from the op article

there’s some good 2d stuff on that instance too

We should be going back on there and proselytizing (and on this end, welcoming new users with h links to documentation etc.) btw if you’re new I recommend checking out the various mobile clients. I personally use lemmy sync because of muscle memory from years of using it on reddit, but there’s a number of open source ones too.

Same! And there’s not a good email alternative that’s as popular

Which client do you use?

Yeah wholesome mom and pop businesses getting eaten by larger, more specialized and efficient corpos is not a flaw, it’s an inherent feature of capitalism. A worker at a specialized firm can manage dozens of apartments for the same salary as your aunt managing just one or two- she stands no chance in the long run. Same for retail stores and most other kinds of businesses really.

The only solution is democracy- having the larger more efficient firm be democratically owned by its workers and accountable to them and through them the community, rather to a cigar chomping investor hundreds of miles away

No, not all investment is the same. look up the difference between rent and profit.