Dezember 2021. Volker Wissing betritt nervös zum ersten mal das Büro des Ministers für Verkehr und Digitales.

Kein Schreibtisch, kein Faxgerät, gar nichts, nur ein riesiger Schuhkarton mit einem Brief.

"Lieber Volker, das ist alles was du brauchen wirst.

• Dein Andi <3"

Volker zieht die fast einen Meter langen Schuhe aus dem Karton. Vorne breit und bunt angemalt. Es schleicht sich ein Lächeln auf sein Gesicht.

Zögernd schlüpft er hinein, und muss sofort schmunzeln.

“Wie angegossen”

https://miscreants.party/@potatoes_fall/112201249657076135

Behebt man nicht nebenbei aber man hätte ja wenigstens damit anfangen können.

Dafür gibts bestimmt bald Flugtaxis für Reiche!!! yay

Good for Nix! Horrible article though lmao

Alsnog beter dan tangenduits

Wow I grew up eating this stuff and only today do I learn it’s spelled Plootz. Always thought it was Bloz

The ad revenue part is true but what do you mean by not harvesting data? Mastodon definitely stores your boosts and likes, it just doesn’t use that data to recommend more content. And the big difference is of course that it is stored on your instance’s server, not a centralized location.

That’s fair! Although I fear big money will always come up with some way to make a “better” UX, either simply because they can afford more/better devs, and often by compromising privacy, accessibility, etc.

embrace extend extinguish has worked in the past and it can work again

So it should be Plato not Socrates in the meme?

It’s centralized. They allow federation using their own protocol.

But all you need to know is that it’s a capitalist, for-profit undertaking.

it’s quite different in the sense that you don’t see any recommended content, just your follows and their boosts.

oregano

That mindset is the problem. A slightly better UX at the cost of freedom is a bad deal.

Yeah. In Dutch cities people know to drive carefully at night because lots of drunk bikers are around. It’s infinitely better than drunk driving.

I moved to Germany now and I feel less safe biking drunk here (I still do tho)

In the worked company, straight up jorking it. And by ‘it’ haha well. lets justr say. My peanits

Is this… a news story about something that didn’t happen?

(I didnt read the article, genuine question)

It’s the dilemma of any alternative space. People seeking alternatives don’t like the mainstream.

And with a bit of generalization, there’s two reasons not to like the mainstream:

1. The mainstream is too oppressive
2. The mainstream is not oppressive enough

I don’t think he had them all to begin with, but he lost the rest of his marbles. To be honest I think if he was a critical thinker and a bit more open-minded, he would have become an anarchist. But sadly he’s a Christian conservative.

Also as I’ve learned more about linux, I realize he’s wrong about most things there too 😂

I dare you to post this in .ml :P

fuck that hits home way too much

that’s the one. As a kid I never understood why punishments even exist. People being mad at me was already unbearable torture