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Cake day: July 5th, 2023

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  • Capitalism does not require democracy. In fact democracy stands in the way of the incentives people who own significant capital have. Soooo, if democracy stands in the way of profit growth… it might have to go. 🥹 It happens gradually. We say there’s got to be a limit. They say OK and negotiate where the limit is. Sometime later they ask to renegotiate the limit a bit in their favour. We say, not a big deal, fine. Rinse and repeat until the limit has changed enough for them not to have to ask. They just try doing it without us noticing. Then at some point we start noticing. By then our democratic power is eroded to the point where shifting the limit in our favour is extremely difficult.









  • I think the very first step to building resiliency is to sign up for Proton’s cloud services. That will give you access to mail, both from Gmail via forwarding and a new inbox with a separate address. You’d also get a password manager and cloud storage. From there you can start self-hosting alternatives. Probably start with Immich as Google Photos is a big deal and it takes a ton of storage. Proton is a Swiss non-profit so the probability for enshitification is not nearly as high as with Google.

    As soon as you have redundant storage, do a Google Takeout and download a full archive of your stuff. This feature may not be there for long given the current corporate climate.




  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.worldMastodon: Our ideas about Packs
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    13 days ago

    Bluesky pioneered a brilliant solution to this “empty feed problem” in 2024, with the introduction of “Starter Packs”, a feature that allows users to curate and share their own collections of recommended accounts.

    Bluesky pioneered, eh? I distinctly remember using a feature called “circles” on Google+ back in 2011. It allowed people to create arbitrary “circles” of people, share them and have others bulk-follow/unfollow the people from a circle. It worked incredibly well and Google+ became a lively social network even with its small userbase at the time.