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EU_Commission, 29 days ago to random

The EU is stronger with the 10 countries that joined our Union two decades ago.

Today, we proudly unfurl our Union's flag to celebrate #20YearsTogether.

This is the symbol of our unity, solidarity and prosperity.

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kaia, 30 days ago to random

thisismissem, 1 month ago to mastodon

”But Mastodon also has [...] a lot on its plate including integration with Threads“

It's lines like this that makes me completely unable to take those calling for a hard fork of Mastodon seriously.

All Mastodon do for Threads is the same they for any fediverse developer having issues federating with them. (And there's certainly limits to that)

Along with perhaps writing more FEPs to standardize behaviour, which benefits everyone

#mastodon

Bundesregierung, 1 month ago to random German

Menschen können aus unterschiedlichsten Gründen ihre Wohnung verlieren – zum Beispiel durch Mietschulden, Arbeitslosigkeit oder Krankheit. Jede und jeder sollte die Chance auf eine sichere Unterkunft haben.

mina, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Does anybody know a PeerTube instance which does accept registrations and uploads?

I'd be willing to pay a few Euros.

Or a really cheap web hoster, where I could install my own?

The instance, I was using has apparently gone away.

Update: The instance, I was using was only temporarily down and is back up. So: no urgency.

In the long run, I will probably just run my own instance.

Natanox, 1 month ago to Skyrim

"I'm tired of all this shit."

proceeds to disregard physics, putting himself on fire
#Skyrim #gaming

javi, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

offf, this story about how Google made google search into a pile of seagull shit hits me hard:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Around the time of this story, I was living through a similar situation in my work life (on a much smaller scope, of course, WordPress.com first, Tumblr later).

Back in 2019, working on WordPress, I started finding myself, almost weekly, arguing against people who wanted to take the product we were working at and made it worse if that mean they could squeeze 0.1% more revenue from it

The 0.1% figure is not even a random number: I remember this speciffic A/B test on WordPress.com that was declared a success and shipped to 100% of the users because it increased the free-to-paid conversion by 0.1%. Soon after it was released, I found out that as a side effect, it increased the churn of free users by 20 something %,so I called for an urgent rollback and removal of the change. So I was promptly explained that we didn't care about free-users churn, because finance had calculated the average long-term value of the free users to be something like $2 per year, and the increase in conversion was bigger than what we could get from them.

Everything became about growth hacking. Everything became thinly-veiled dark patterns. In our private dev slack channels, we joked that since it was impossible to make it smaller or less conspicuous, the next thing the growth team was going to ask us to do was to make the 'free plan' button flee away from the mouse pointer when the user tried to click it. We kept making our product worse, we kept consciously crippling the cheaper versions so we could force people to move to the more expensive options.

Back then I was the lead of one of the two dev divisions working on WordPress.com, so my job was mainly to discuss what we were going to be doing, when and how. And I was getting drained by a constant state of fight against a constant wave of shit they wanted us to build. So much than by the end of 2020, the CEO quietly told me to follow the growth team plans and shut up or step down.

So I requested to move to tumblr, because I thought the pastures were greener over there. But it was all the same: Adding login walls to what we were pretending to be "the last bastion of the free internet", cramping in embarrasingly obvious money-making schemes disguised as features, and making them silently opt-out instead of opt-in so the less people the possible would deactivate them, having to fend off the pressure from the CEO to make everything algorithmic timelines because, you know, tiktok makes a lot of money and why aren't we, etc etc.

I found myself in a place where building something good that people enjoy using was no longer a priority, but tricking people into generating more money for the company was. And when I looked around me, I could see that happening everywhere else, not only in my company. Experiencing the start of the enshittification years from inside wasn't easy.

And, as in the article, the people who decided to turn the shit-metter up to 200%, have a name, in every case. And these people, no matter if they are called Sundar and Prabhakar or Matt and Mark, are destroying the internet. These people are milllionaires, or billionaries, and are destroying our shared, common spaces to squeeze some extra cash from us.

That's why the fediverse and its principles are important. Because that's how we take back internet from their dirty hands. That's how we make internet resilient against them. That's how we build the commons.

carnage4life, 1 month ago to random

CEO walks out into the rain and is surprised he gets wet.

ErikUden, 1 month ago to random German

Was bringt ein Recht auf freie Entfaltung, ein Recht auf freie Mobilität und das Leben wo auch immer man will - was bringt das Recht auf Bildung, wenn man es sich nicht leisten kann?

Wenn die Grundlage unserer Existenz ein Gesetzesbuch ist was viele Rechte allen Menschen zuspricht, doch in dessen Ausführung diese nicht-existent oder mangelhaft umgesetzt werden, haben wir dann wirklich Rechte, oder nur Privilegien die uns jederzeit auch entzogen werden können?

kasiandra, 1 month ago to random German

Oh Wunder, Oh Wunder. Caren Miosga Team hat geantworter und findet, dass Faschismus und Rechtsextremismus eine Position ist. Somit Interpretiere ich daraus, dass Caren Miosga die AfD als gut empfindet und deshalb denen eine Bühne bieten will. Danke @NDR, dass ihr Angriffe auf Menschenleben, Demokratie und Freiheit legitimiert.

netzpolitik_feed, 1 month ago to random German

Doctolib ist hierzulande die führende Plattform für Online-Arzttermine. Trotz wachsender Kritik von Datenschützer:innen ist das Unternehmen seit Jahren auf Erfolgskurs – und auf bestem Wege, die Datenverarbeitung im Gesundheitswesen von ethischen Prinzipien zu befreien.

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/doctolib-wachsender-riese-im-gesundheitsdatenmarkt/

Natanox, 1 month ago to diy

Is there some term for ultrabright LEDs? Talking about those you most likely need a cooling solution for, that output 50+ lumen (around 200.000+ mcd) on a tiny surface. Ebay isn't helpful with its search right now. Need something to attach next to the webcam so the OctoPrint cam can actually see stuff. #diy #engineering #3DPrinting

kuketzblog, 1 month ago to random German

»WhatsApp ist der in Deutschland am häufigsten genutzte Messenger-Dienst«. [...,] Als Bundespresseamt überprüfe man regelmäßig, wie man dem verfassungsrechtlich gebotenen Informationsauftrag gerecht werden könne »und das kann eben nur gelingen, wenn wir uns auch an der tatsächlichen Mediennutzung der Bürgerinnen und Bürger orientieren«.

Wenn man dieser Argumentation folgt, lässt sich vieles als legitim rechtfertigen, trotz bestehender ethischer und rechtlicher Bedenken.

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grillchen, 1 month ago to random

Natanox, 1 month ago to random

I just realized once more people born in 2000 are 22 now. Then I remembered it's actually 24 because 2022 was two years ago as well.

I immediately got back pain. :thisisfine:

Natanox, 1 month ago to random

I've dreamed about being part of the fifth Matrix movie.

It was as weird as the fourth. :thisisfine:

kura, 1 month ago to random

You heard about ux, but have you heard about webx?

This isn't it. This is the exact opposite of webx.
cant track me with cookies, so you force me to register. So you can track me through session cookies.? No. I should see if libredirect works on mobile Firefox.

Why do websites actively try to scare people away?

Still can't understand that.

Please explain and help me to understand?

puniko, 1 month ago to random

Autobahnen sind in Beton gegossene Freiheit

​:neocat_think_googly_woozy:​ Also sind Autobahnen eine Freiheitseinschränkung, weil wenn man sachen einbetoniert sind die sachen ja nicht mehr frei