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Just wow. Never knew it was that bad. I’ve been browsing with adblock since forever and quit Reddit immediately when RIF stopped working. Wouldn’t be able to tolerate that official shit one minute.

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Rock solid.

But when did the narwhal bacon?

Obligatory relevant xkcd.

I’ve been using DDG exclusively for years now and every now and then I feel it doesn’t give me what I seek and I try Google and it doesn’t find shit either.

People always say that Google results are still superior but I believe that’s only the case as long as you’re in the bubble they create based on your profile and you’re looking for your interests and like-minded opinions.

#1 and #4 are the only ones I cannot see some (distorted) form of the balding guy looking left,so those are definitely my favorites.

This one has a real chance to become reality. Many businesses and government agencies would be interested in tracking people indoors.

Upper-case T; different matter. You’re evoking a dystopian nightmare that reduces humanity to educationally subnormal homunculi with no prospects, no future and various unalive things I’d use a spoiler tag and trigger warning for if I knew how to do that.

So what? You’re just describing what Zuck has been working towards since he started that shit at college.

Definitely. I’ve registered with both, kbin and Lemmy, and unfortunately most seem to migrate towards the latter. Kbin is cleaner and less buggy.

Good. Finally that one friend of mine will stop posting Twitter links and I can blacklist it again.

People always wait until it’s almost too before they act. Some even miss that point.

It’s the same work for them. The DB server may just save some CPU time if it has to delete less.

Actually a good sign.

Subscription fees instead of single-buy licenses are generally more profitable after 1-2 years. This whole cloud crap is a pure vendors’ market.

Also, telemetry isn’t required anymore when users just use cloud services. That’s what made Google and Facebook big after all.

Good for you. But since the subreddit is the explicit topic or this thread the right thing to do would have been to not post a reply at all.

I’m absolutely with you. Boiling frog and all. 10 years ago nobody would have believed that you’d require an online account to log into your local machine.

As soon as it’s viable from a business point of view (as in people will swallow it), it will be cloud only.

You ever had respect for big tech?

Are apps site-exclusive or federated as well? Will I be able to use a Lemmy app with a kbin account?

Sounds like you’re seriously considering the switch. I recommend to just continue to use the second machine, try to get everything you need to run or find suitable replacements.

That’s what I did over about 1.5 years and eventually I felt there’s nothing missing anymore and I dared to switch my daily driver. Haven’t looked back since and it’s an awesome feeling not to have to worry about Microsoft’s newest atrocities in their next Windows version.