IMO this is not enshittification, it’s not the websites fault they struggle with bots. It may not be the best strategy, but enshittification is when a digital service has its customers caugt with vendor lock-in and then exploits them for more profit

I thought we all agreed that “immutable” is a confusing term and that we should call it “atomic”

I can handle nonsense but please don’t call me a liberal.

Can you point to the part you want me to engage with? Half your comments are you fantasizing about me so I’m not sure what you’re even trying to tell me.

I didn’t need to put this into anything because the writing style tells me everything I need to know. Highly opinionated. Essays posing as news. Opinion underlaid with paper-thin “arguments”. It’s the same that was around during covid spreading misinformation about vaccines and masks. The disinformation itself is not the goal. The goal is to capitalize on people’s fear and isolate them. Make them easy to manipulate later on.

It’s not a new strategy either. Fear and hate have always been tools in the hands of the powerful. If you think the West has a monopoly on that, you’re sorely mistaken.

Fuck Westerm hegemony and capitalism, sure. But also fuck Putin. Fuck all oligarchs.

What the fuck are you even talking about? I’ve said nothing about Ukraine. Do you call everyone who disagrees with you a liberal? That is a rude insult to sling around in these parts.

Your post got rained in downvotes despite being posted on lemmy.ml. Clearly I’m not the only one who can tell this is trash

No, I mean the Naomi Klein that voices pro-palestinian opinions in the book. Here’s a highly israel-critical interview.

This is what I mean. Blind dogma and hatred will make you turn against those who should be your allies.

The difference between journalism and propaganda to you is whether a western source is saying it or a country which is no longer controlled by the western financial apparatus

What makes you think this?

I haven’t been trained to question, that’s true. I learned. You only learned to be scared apparently, and you’re currently in training to dismiss facts altogether. I suggest you drop out of that curriculum

Oh I do. But I want journalists to tell me about it, not propaganda outlets. This article is written to make me angry, not to emancipate or enlighten me. It wants to manipulate me.

If I may recommend a book, Doppelganger by Naomi Klein. It’s about exactly the difference between

1. investigative journalists that do their due diligence to uncover actual conspiracies
2. conspiracy nutjobs that just believe and share every conspiracy they hear, and ironically, often end up serving oligarchs by doing so.

If anger becomes more important than truth, we become tools in the hands of the powerful. Choose truth

This is just right wing and conspiracy theorist bs. I’m not saying there is no censorship but this is misinformation designed to confuse people, sow distrust, and make them susceptible to more misinformation so they can be influenced politically.

This kind of shit really took off in 2020 and if you’re still falling for it, please take your life back in control. If we’re gonna criticize the West, let’s take a fact-based approach.

Good for Nix! Horrible article though lmao

Oh woops! Thanks

what flag is that I am badly educated apparently

if you want a paid version similar to pihole with a bit more control and insights I recommend a smart DNS service like Control D.

The Olympics were cool but the mental gymnastics here are far more impressive

do they not? That is disappointing

good point

True! fairphones are at least okay-ish there too. They actively cooperate with devs that make open source android OSs. But yeah Google still has way too much power in the entire android ecosystem. Many banking apps don’t work without Google Wallet, which doesn’t run on degoogled OSs.

agree 100%. One way to buy less phones is to buy a repairable phone.

for me the point about being locked into an ecosystem is reason enough.

Some more on that:

• Apple has actively resisted efforts by the EU to standardize
• iPhone doesn’t allow you to install apps they haven’t approved.
• Apple devices often refuse to interface with non-apple devices despite being physically capable.
• You cannot easily install other OSes on Apple hardware.
• Apple software is almost entirely closed source, and they likely have backdoors everywhere.

I just want to own my phone man