There is a mobile app for kbin, though. It's not great, but it exists. I'm using it right now!
BobQuasit
joined 1 year ago
Inertia is the most powerful force in the universe...of human psychology.
...so it's nothing to do with Lemmiwinks, then?
I am disappointed.
God, I hope so. I don't see any way to stop the billionaires from killing off our species, at this point. But I want to at least see those psychotic monsters suffer before we all go!
Same here. I'm kind of suspecting that Reddit isn't going to be giving me my data anytime soon, if ever!
This might sound childish, but there's an old EP of lullabies that my parents used to play and sing for me long ago. Decades later, I got a copy to play and sing for my own son.
It's called Golden Slumbers: Lullabies From Near and Far (1956). It's not available digitally and was never released on CD, so I ripped the EP and posted it to YouTube at the link above. It's really relaxing.
Yeah, I'm another old school early adopter who was on the internet since the '80s. No way the enshittification and souring of Reddit was caused by boomers and Gen xers. Most of them wouldn't know how to get on, and those who would... Honestly, I'm the only boomer I know who is on there. Well, unless you go to some of the subreddits that are specifically for people over 50. And those people are incredibly nice! One of the few things I will really miss about Reddit.
@eosph I was thinking that if they're only available on Lemmy, it would give the search engines more reason to link to here!
I'm off my primary account, and have no desire to go back. I did check on my alt today, but only to catch up on correspondence.
Because the system gives them no other real choice. When all major parties serve the interests of the oligarchs, the people know that they're being screwed. Which makes them angry. And since the powers that be absolutely will not allow the emergence of a truly populist movement or leader, the people have no other option but to support a charismatic authoritarian leader who promises them whatever they want. I suspect that most of the people know that those leaders are lying, but at least they acknowledge that the people are being screwed!
Note that while the establishment never allows a leftist populist movement, they're fine with an authoritarian one. Translation: our owners won't allow their cattle to run free, but they're happy to have us all choose a leader to send us to the slaughterhouse for their profit.
Chi1d p0rn posters, among others. According to them, and I have no reason to doubt them.
I'm on StoryGraph too (and BookWyrm), but I've been burned WAY too often by profiteers. GoodReads in particular is seared into my memory; their owners lied to users to get tens of thousands of free hours of labor out of us (to "save GoodReads from Amazon"), all while they were negotiating to sell out to Amazon! And then Amazon immediately started censoring and shadowbanning reviews to suit their corporate bottom line.
I've seen far too many great digital communities destroyed by greedy vulture capitalists. I'm done. If a service has a single owner - plutocrat or corporation - it automatically goes to the bottom of the list. I'll stick with BookWyrm, thanks! It may be a little light on features so far, but I'd rather put my work in there and wait for improvements.