stravanasu @ pglpm @lemmy.ca

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Brilliant!

Interesting – it doesn't appear in https://browse.feddit.de/ yet! Then I delete the one I just created, I don't like redundancy.

I share and promote this attitude. If I must be honest it feels a little hopeless: it seems that since the 1970s or 1980s humanity has been going down the drain. I fear "fediverse wars". It's 2023 and we basically have a World War III going on, illiteracy and misinformation steadily increase, corporations play the role of governments, science and scientific truth have become anti-Galilean based on "authorities" and majority votes, and natural stupidity is used to train artificial intelligence. I just feel sad.

But I don't mean to be defeatist. No matter the chances we can fight for what's right.

Had never heard about it, cheers!

Maybe my comment wasn't clear or you misread it. It wasn't meant to be sarcastic. Obviously there's a problem and we want (not just need) to do something about it. But it's also important to be careful about how the problem is presented - and manipulated - and about how fingers are pointed. One can't point a finger at "Mastodon" the same way one could point it at "Twitter". Doing so has some similarities to pointing a finger at the http protocol.

Edit: see for instance the comment by @while1malloc0@beehaw.org to this post.

I'm not fully sure about the logic and hinted conclusions here. The internet itself is a network with major CSAM problems (so maybe we shouldn't use it?).

I'm not fully sure about the logic and perhaps hinted conclusions here. The internet itself is a network with major CSAM problems (so maybe we shouldn't use it?).

I believe that https://browse.feddit.de/ shows the total number of subscribers, but I'd be happy if someone else confirmed this as well.

Thank you for the recommendation, I'll try it out. To be honest I second the "don't move fast if you have to break things" attitude...

Glad to see my question wasn't so dumb, cheers :)

Cheers, didn't know about this possibility!

Sorry for my miswriting of my reply; what I meant is that I agree and had expressed related concerns in another community, hence the link. Not backing myself up, just expressing my opinion :) Not only should we not throw more tech at the problem, but I think we should rethink about what we do without the tech.

Indeed, no point in throwing technology at something that has some basic flaws to be fixed first (I expressed something similar here).

Agree on all your points. I just don't want to bother fiddling with adobe etc. I'll buy a paper copy – why didn't I think of that!

The title of the post is incorrect. It should be: "Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as the X11 Window System".

Does anyone know if any seller/publisher of this book sells it without DRM?

I just bought Permutation City on Kobo, where I usually buy all my ebooks. ...And what a let-down: the book is DRM-protected, so I can't simply download the purchased ebook and read it on my laptop or phone, without having Adobe breaking my privacy.

So I returned the book.

I've happily bought the brilliant Mistborn, "Wax and Wayne", and Stormlight Archive full collections by Brandon Sanderson without DRM on his books. I think it's thanks to the Tor Publishers. Here's what Sanderson says about DRM:

This isn’t even getting into DRM, which is a practice that punishes only those who want to do what is right by supporting the release, rather than pirating. There hasn’t been as much talk of this lately, but I haven’t forgotten. I think people should be able to move their ebooks between devices, and store them locally in case their chosen platform vanishes. (To their credit, Tor Books has released DRM-free ebooks. That is not the case at my other publishers.)

In my case this translates to "Twitter is now deleted".

Thank you for sharing your experience with it. Good to hear from many people that it was reliable.

Thanks for the encouragement, I will! I'll report here in case anyone is curious.

Great community! Sorry must go – peeing myself after seeing the first posts there 🤣