exchgr, 10 months ago

uber is just privatized hitchhiking

stony, 10 months ago

@exchgr "privatized" - I don't think it means what you think it means

pollybrocket, 10 months ago

@exchgr and Airbnb is privatized couchsurfing dot com!

dexterous, 10 months ago

@exchgr in its current state, I'd say it's just a taxi service without the necessary regulation. Anything else just hides the ugly. It has come very-very far from its roots as a ride-share service, a business model that was never really about "business" and more about "decongesting roads" and "reducing emissions".

dexterous, 10 months ago

@exchgr I remember a phase where literally every hackathon and launchpad in my hometown of Pune would have at least 2 ride-share apps and I was always the "asshole" that asked them to demonstrate some semblance of a business model.

exchgr, 10 months ago

@dexterous lmao

cm_jc, 10 months ago

@exchgr web 1.0, the low bandwidth best version of the internet. It's like modern games have so much more everything, but are less fun to play than older ones.

ktaletsk, 10 months ago

@exchgr and cloud is just privatized computers!

boringaccount, 10 months ago

@exchgr
Real

KidOrnery, 10 months ago

@exchgr
I miss Usenet, and my email lists...
@tin

darlingofishtar, 10 months ago

@exchgr Myspace was privatized personal homepages with BBS.

Now I just wish we had a fediverse version of it (yeah yeah I know I can just make a personal neocities but god damn it the nostalgia for Myspace is strong and the existence of personal websites doesn't mean we shouldn't have a Fediverse Myspace! xD)

UP8, 10 months ago

@exchgr i can't think of anything more "private" (in the sense of property) than owning your own domain name and blog; maybe social media is like renting instead of owning or USENET is like being a peasant in a village and Reddit is a Soviet collective farm or something like that.

jackpearse, 10 months ago

@exchgr And Cloudcomputing is nothing else than back to „Terminal and Mainframe“; it is privatized Internet.

End of decentralization. The biggest dependency framework ever. Back to the time before Internet and Personal Computer.

jackpearse, 10 months ago

@exchgr Exactly!!

elithebearded, 10 months ago

@exchgr All true. But while I was exposed to both IRC and Usenet in the 1990s, I hated IRC and loved Usenet. Today I still don't like most "relay chat" systems, but the Slack UI makes that one fine for me.

I still read and post to Usenet, but never really liked Reddit.

rachelw, 10 months ago

@exchgr hard to fault your logic

loke, 10 months ago

@exchgr and twitter is privatised gossip.

buldielocks, 10 months ago

@exchgr coke is just a private-iced drink?

pavo, 10 months ago

@exchgr privatised piracy is a funny one

hyde, 10 months ago

@exchgr :100_valid:

fezzi, 10 months ago

@exchgr everything is about "me" nowadays... "us" seems to vanish more and more... let's see how that will tourn out with the real problems mankind has to deal with.

devnull, 10 months ago

@exchgr #Twitter is just privatized shouting on a street corner

br00t4c, 10 months ago

@exchgr Nothing new under the sun. Nothing.

csstrowbridge, 10 months ago

@exchgr
I still say if none of the twitter clones survives, we should all just return to Usenet.

PaniczGodek, 10 months ago

@exchgr well that's because the public sector wasn't potent enough to invent the "like" button

voxpelli, 10 months ago

@exchgr People should pay IRCCloud for private team IRC servers instead of paying for Slacm, then they get smart phone apps and web client that works for both that and all other IRC networks, such as @liberachat etc

fatboy, 10 months ago

@exchgr The Truth!

mighty_orbot, 10 months ago

@exchgr “Streaming is just privatized piracy” is certainly some interesting gymnastics.

exchgr, 10 months ago

@mighty_orbot instead of paying for a seedbox and/or private tracker, you pay for a centralized streaming library. either way, artists don’t get paid

mighty_orbot, 10 months ago

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exchgr, 10 months ago

@mighty_orbot licensing is very different from streaming. streaming is just a way for corporations to get paid, not artists

post_capitalist_pedagogy, 10 months ago

@exchgr what would be needed to reinstate these systems as the cultural norm?

Lironah, 10 months ago

@exchgr Wait, so that's what this Slack thing is? Does it have bot games and macros and stuff? 😆

exchgr, 10 months ago

@Lironah yeah it has apps lol

astatide, 10 months ago

@exchgr @Lironah and they're all terrible
"outlook connect!" no thanks privatized calendar