If you tried to make them today, you would just be a poser.
False. Idolizing that snapshot and discouraging human output misses the point entirely and is the worst poser take on the subject I can imagine. Curated sips of ancient counterculture are just pretentious self indulgence if you aren’t drawing inspiration, and disparaging those who would actually participate is extra gross. Go make a zine about how much you love old zines, it’ll be fun
How similar most of the panels are makes me think someone there’s actually doing distributed infrastructure right :)
Updoot for human output, looking forward to more in your freshly minted signature style op
Let’s be wildly paranoid lol
I obviously reject the original framing and was really hoping to hear your answer. That a system supports a life you find worthwhile does not mean it is inherently worth supporting.
I see lemmy as harm reduction, the methadone to instagram’s fent. Incremental changes are often more sustainable than grand gestures, just getting off the infinite feed of short form video would be a huge step in the right direction and probably a lot easier to adjust to from where you’re at now
This guy doesn’t even finish reading lemmy
I am here to back up op, sticks build up quick and mulch/chips can actually be useful
How would you respond to a system you currently depend on that you recognize needs to change?
I mean… I genuinely believe your phone (and the watch I correctly assumed you wore) log all of those things, for a start. It’s essentially free for them to do and there’s value to be extracted from that data. My earnest answer to the mocking strawman question you pose would be that you, garmin, your healthcare provider/insurance company, various advertisers, and law enforcement for a start would love to know the frequency, consistency, and volume of your shits for various reasons and that same data on a population in aggregate is even more valuable.
Anyway if you want hyperbole, informing the corpos of your turd girth is a traitorous betrayal of our species and will be punishable by death when the revolution comes. Hope you’re having a nice day lol
Maybe it’s all the drugs (did more than enough, long ago) but I’m genuinely unsure what you’re trying to say. It doesn’t take a lot of institutional support to get high and listen to music, I get a vague sense you think I’m supporting something and find that hypocritical. Care to elaborate?
It ranges from “present a thesis about our ideology” to “password optional”. You can run your own instance too. The whole federation thing is a pretty cool concept, I suggest looking into it a bit vs just thinking of this as a reddit alternative. Yeah there are apps and frontends pretty much identical to reddit, but it’s a very superficial similarity
Will you bite the hand that feeds you? Will you stay down on your knees? I have found you can find happiness in slavery
Yes these are Nine Inch Nails lyrics, they slap. Op needs to do a lot more drugs
This is slander to excrement, a nutrient rich component of the cycle which sustains us
There’s hard evidence everything transmitted is logged and that any phone capable of connecting to the cell network can be listened in on at any time. I would be very surprised to learn monitoring/logging like that was not the default at this point given the infrastructure we’ve publicly built for that purpose and just how easy to implement it’s become. You think an on device assistant can help schedule and summarize your day but the NSA is going to opt out of those capabilities on principle and let that big ol Utah data center sit idle?
Nothing, you’re the one guy who literally has nothing to hide. Just let it log when you sleep shit or fuck, every word you speak, and every place you go. Who cares, am I right?
Bro hurl your phone into the sea stat, you’ve got a lot of grass touching to catch up on. Feeling sucked in sometimes I can relate to, reality being the exception is wild. Theoretical damage on the societal level aside this is a huge red flag that this tech is hurting you and you need to disengage. I’m not going to advocate for specific meditations here or anything, just find something to do that doesn’t involve a screen
This one popped up in /all, I think there’s room for homecooked graphite memetics pretty much anywhere :)