Touching_Grass @ Touching_Grass @lemmy.world

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Dude, lol read ffs

No I can but I'm not going to. Its not critical to anything I have argued so far.

As I've already said the original post is all that's needed.

You mentioned that you struggled with reading and it's showing.

Fucking clown shit. Start out complaining you can't read. Finishes up by imagining easier arguments hoping you got a shot at those.

how you acting like you're holier than bitching online about stuff 🤣

Nothing is free. Meta, one of the biggest companies online shows this. They're making money off you every minute.

Internet was made to share things between people. Not to have it all locked behind subscriptions and paywalls. Its forcing information scarcity needlessly for companies. The internet should not be a place for anyone looking to reduce access to information or who lock its features away.

what features are paid users losing with Spotify

Why would I care to do that. You're on a post showing features being removed.

You played yourself coming all hot over having to read.

You didn't read the post you're on either.

I do contribute to projects when I can. Helping with open source is a fun hobby and does help fight against a lot of this.

What are you doing other than whining about having to read as if anyone forced you and adding practically nothing to a conversation you had no idea about before jumping in.

Why are you typing up essays on a premise that is faulty?

If you read more than twitter posts this wouldn't come off like an essay. But I keep this short for you.

You complain about faulty premises and but start your whole premise on something factually wrong.

Erosion of features and services is so common it even has its own well known name, enshitification.

Yea bully them better known as the market. How its suppose to be designed to work.

Over a decade ago they had devices called "sting ray" that act like antenna. It captures all text messages in the area.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/privacy-technology/surveillance-technologies/stingray-tracking-devices-whos-got-them

I wonder how many companies like Cambridge analytica or TPUSA just have access to these. It wouldn't surprise me if there's some social engineering dark arts underground of pretending to be police and getting this data to study

Why don't we eat them or throw them in those huge car crushers and make a YouTube channel of it.

Is your idiot brain getting fucked by stupid

I haven't called you any of that.

My point is that we can't just ignore it or believe that just not subscribing is good enough.

These companies corner a market and become the leader in acceptable practices. So you choose to leave Spotify and pick an alternative just means your alternative adopts the thing you left Spotify for.

The only thing that counteracts this erosion of services and features for profit is cultural pressure. Companies would love for people to just not subscribe because its never enough pressure to get the company to change. There needs to be better organization from customers.

You see, there are these jars. Inside these jars are these brains. And the jars are floating in space.

That is crazy and heres why

They expect to take from you. You mention middle ground. You don't get to the middle ground by walk halfway towards someone that had no intention of meeting you halfway. But they will take every advantage you give them.

On top of all this, the internet survived way before any of the corporations jumped on board. It'll exist without them. Yet with them around they pushed out the free and fun services and now that no longer exists in any meaningful way because they exist.

I'm a consumer of a product and yesterday I had twice the product for twice as cheap. Today I don't. I have no invested interest to market for the erosion of services on behalf of any private corporation or company. Especially large corporate entities who pay individuals hundreds of millions in contracts. How about standing up for your peers because they ain't your peers

Its acceptable to demand cheaper better products and if they don't budge then you shouldn't either.

Its okay to stand up for your interest.

You don't need to defend these practices especially when these companies go to the effort to capture a monopoly on the services right before they lock it all away.

You keep meeting them halfway they'll keep moving where that is.

See how they down vote you.

Let me try to give a voice to the people down voting.

I hope that in the future they make a separate subscription model for each of these services.

$2/month I get the pause feature.

$5/week I get to control my own volume.

$4/month I don't have to loudly shout the brand name of the commercial to go back to my podcast.

This is how websites keep the lights on and you shouldn't be so ungrateful. We all know the pursuit of infinite profits means all these companies will continue to find more ways to squeeze customers. So I'll go down with this ship even though just 5 years ago it was crazy to see a 2 minute unskippable ad but now there's 3 of them and you're an asshole for wanting to remove that.

What would the internet look like if we got rid of how companies advertise to us.

In the future you should consider what you're saying before speaking out against enshitificatin and encroachment of mass marketing into our lives. It feeds. It never stops feeding and I am meat.

That's how websites keep the lights on. How dare you try to circumvent your ad responsibility

Did it go from 20.5 to 19.5? I think we'll survive this.

Lie is a weird way to describe it. They give you an answer based on probabilities. When they're off base they call it hallucinating. Its not lying its just lacking in data to give an accurate and correct a answer which will get better with more training and data. Everything else we have so far gets worse. Google isn't what it was 15 years ago.

I use chatgpt every day to find out answers over google. Its better in almost every single way to get information from and I can only imagine what it's capable of once it can interface with crawlers.

The language you're using to speak on this issue makes it seem like theres a personal vendetta against LLM. Why people get so mad at a new tool is always fascinating.

Reddit gimmick is that its an advertising website disguised as a forum.

What it did was collect people with similar interest so they could sell their attention.

This made it easy for the fly by night T-shirt seller or latest alibaba enthusiasts selling the latest trend. Post a meme about the trend. Use a socket puppet account or wait for a comment that said "wow that's really crazy here's a link where you can learn more". In this case its to a video of a channel paid to act impressed by the quality. And then link or suggest where to buy them.

Not saying that's what this is. That stuff happens just naturally. But this type of advertising is insidious and erodes a website quick which is why I hate it so much. And lately i'm seeing more and more posts on Lemmy like this

That's already a problem. The thing j think about is what will serve me better. Google or chat AI. The risk of bad information exists with both. But an AI based search engine is something that will be much better at finding context, retiring results geared towards my goals and I suspect less prone to fuckery because AI must be trained as a whole