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Note that DistroWatch is not the only one affected by ban on FOSS related article links on FB.
Further read: https://news.itsfoss.com/facebook-ban-fiasco/
Cue people spouting: "But muh marketplace!" "But muh friend from highschool I haven't spoken to in a decade!" "But muh extended family I barely even know exist!"
Any excuse to keep hitting that crack pipe.
The paranoia in me wants to think that this an effort to make people forget that there are, in fact, a whole lot of people capable and willing to audit any kind of open source project at any scale. Like a new AI or similar...
"Listen, we might run our entire company on this platform, but that doesn't mean we respect it."
linux for me not for thee
They were just trying to prevent people from being tricked into installing Manjaro
As someone who originally fell for that trick, bless them. I've since learned how to do it right and became a dirty distrohopper.
Either that or some Linux wizard cast the "every time you get your distro perfectly set up and stable you get bored and install another one" curse on me.
The only distro I haven't had that happen on was gentoo because the thought of reinstalling it makes me go "actually this is fine"
I take the approach of settling into a distro then getting bored and messing with stuff I shouldn't (at least on a daily driver) and reinstalling out of necessity, sometimes changing distros as well.
Smashing something with a club and and sifting through the pieces to find out why it broke is the best way to learn. Its literally primal human instinct.
No wonder why WhatsApp isn't on Linux.
You mean a desktop application? If so you can use the web version, or even better, use Ferdium. It lets you connect to various messaging services and integrates them like a native desktop app.
Sounds like a cool app.
First time I heard of Ferdium. How's your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?
I've never used beeper, but I've been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:
I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.
If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy
Like pidgin?
Wait pidgin still works?
Yeah, I use it daily. There is discord and teams plugins for it.
How to install whatsapp and telegram plugins?
I have no clue how people trust whatsapp
i still need it for friends,family and stuff
The network effect is real. You can have the best, most awesomely-designed social media platform ever and it will be useless if you are the only person on it.
You can try to convince all your contacts to switch away from whatever app is causing the most evil today, but you also have to convince all of your contacts’ contacts and all of theirs as well.
I managed to overcome network effect with YouTube btw.
It really comes down to what platforms they have with government backdoors & data sharing. If they know the government might not be able to access "encrypted" data then they'd rather suck the balls of government than create it anyway. Look at what happened to the Telegram CEO when he created the encryption & told the government to fuck off.
I quit FB years ago because it's such a garbage website. In the meantime IG has just gotten worse and worse and worse... Zuck would be king of enshittification if his websites weren't shit from the start.
And network effect people will keep using IG.
They're trying to kill counterculture. Pixelfed is also banned at meta's servers.
I have a suspicion that this isn't even about culture or revenue anymore. It's about control.
Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let's them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They're just doing it more now that they definitely won't face any repercussions.
They probably have a team of people from the Heritage foundation making the list of banned topics.
Always has been.
When you got most of the money and assets... There is really only one thing left to acquire
Bingo!
The mew type of capitalism 🙂 even worse
