There is certainly a big part that can be attributed to imperialism, but my (uneducated) pet theory is that technocrats were able to harness the accessibility of big data after the great recession to siphon wealth from working class a lot more efficiently, by radicalizing people.

There had been a big leap from 2005 to 2015-2016 on computing power that enabled the widespread of big data and the corpos with the means to get in on it used it to further enrich their corporation and themselves and created this extremely toxic environment where everything is polarized and monetized.

And with big data, populists can change in real time their message so that they get more money and influence. And tribalism seems to work pretty fucking well. So they finetuned their message to radicalize people and achieve that goal.

People can isolate themselves into online communities that will echo and amplify their views of the world. And now they are pouring on the streets because they’ve became enough of a big group to do so.

Technocrats created this big machine to get rich, and the machine feed itself, giving more power to the ultra rich, which grab more power and influence by radicalizing people.

To be fair, far-right ideologies have been ramping up worldwide since a decade or two.

The current political context just embolden the far right actors to go mask off.

When there is Jesus, little kids get fondled. Fucking disgusting.

Cities would rather pollute a new parcel of land than fix the contamined ones.

There is a city nearby that has an abandoned industrial district and they plan on building a new industrial district instead of razing the old one and decontaminate it.

And shocker, they want to make the new district on farm land.

Depends on what access you have on your PC.

My two steps are always the same

1. debloater
2. i install chocolatey and use that to manage my applications if possible.

Then, depending on your work requirements, I would deactivate OneDrive if not used.

Modern Web has spoiled the average user. You never have to choose a server.

Need an account? Link your gmail/meta/whatever.

If there is a little bit of friction, the average user won’t use it because corpos made sure that everything is a one click setup. And Lemmy is different in that regard, a bit old school.

This is mental that we sell arable land to build expensive, low quality condos or big buildings like a data center.

The typical customer service is 45 mins ++ of waiting on the line, to be greeted by an agent with a heavy Indian accent that will go through the script before having any chances to have a shot at maybe fixing your issue.

It’s a holdover from retail where had to physically hold your product and had limited space.

Now, the shareholders demand even more money and Apple has complete control on the OS and they are signaling that you can’t do shit and they will take whatever they want.

They can fight anyone in courts, and as long as the laws have no teeth, they will get away with it.

I guess the rich friends need more money. Time to manipulate the market again.

No worries, no offense taken.

Hopefully people will see discussions like ours and learn a little something about how things work.

“But it got electrolytes. That’s what plants crave”

I understand that. Just like Lemmy where all the instances that are federated have a copy of the posts and comments you make.

However, you have the option to create your own instance and federate or not with any community you want.

If there is one mega instance, deferating from it effectively kills the social media. Thus my train of thoughts.

More and more people are moving away from tech giants because of their shitty behaviour. So I think it is important to note how the data is used and stored, thus my follow-up question.

Thanks for the detailed response.

More and more people are moving away from tech giants because of their shitty behaviour. So I think it is important to note how the data is used and stored, thus my follow-up question.

Thanks for the detailed response.

I didn’t know that.

Thanks for taking the time to explain.

Follow-up question : doesn’t ATProto run into the same issue as Bluesky for example, where even though the protocol allows for decentralization, the vast majority of users are on the same servers, thus negating the pros of decentralization?

I feel like this would be the case here where one server will contain all the modules.

For non-believers in that format of social media, is ATProto good or bad?

What do you recommend to find a private tracker? A while back, I tried to find one, but none of them were available for new users. Granted that I haven’t used torrents in a while.

We can have both a local manufacturing sector and imports.

The last few years have shown us that we need to produce stuff here because the supply chain can explode and were caught with our pants down.