This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Can someone check in with the inventor of the web and ask him what the web's business model is?
I didn’t come here for heartwarming stories; yet here I am.
Don't take this the wrong way, but fuck your business model. The internet was supposed to be open and be ours, and you stole it for profit.
Everyone is too busy doomscrolling TikTok to notice.
I'm not buying whatever a billionaire nepo baby CEO monopoly owner is pedaling. Let's hear what some labor leaders have to say about it for a change.
But it's felony contempt of busoness model!!
Are they still defending the fact they host Stormfront?
Host_ed_, right? They did drop them at some point, I thought.
Good. Maybe we can go back to paying for our services instead of getting tracked everywhere we go.
When Orwell predicted universal surveillance he never anticipated that the people themselves would install the cameras, let alone pay a subscription.
This sounds more like "everyone is on TikTok and Instagram and will only ever be using TikTok and Instagram".
That’s not what will happen. We will have to pay AND be tracked. They are not going to give anything up.
Time to look for other services then.
Besides the internet?
Meshtastic is free... now imagine remaking the internet on our own terms. (blackjack + hookers)
My food subscription is about to run out!!
Trying to comment in this thread and it tells me "Toastify is awesome"? wth?
edit: nevermind? whatever borked seems to have fixed itself? I don't know.
Toasting is probably a library to add toast text (that little popup message) to a mobile app
lmao, I'm laughing so hard at this! It's probably displaying the wrong text for an error.
@dessalines@lemmy.ml do you have more information on this?
This is all extrapolated from google's self published survey of how their users interact with their search results. Approximately 60% of users don't click anything after a search. Personally I think that is because users have found their results to be seo garbage and not worth clicking on... but that's just my opinion.
Of course they don't click anything. Google search has just become a front-end for Gemini, the answer is "served" up right at the top and most people will just take that for Gospel.
I've watched a lot of students do a search after I tell them to research something, look through a few of the summaries, then look at me in defeat. I have to tell them to actually click some links to try and find an answer
I went to college for networking but the most productive class I've ever had where I learned the most about the internet was instead back in high school. This teacher would make 20 page packets with the most obscure questions like what's the weight of model number 62xRG4 (some obscure car part or something) and he told us to google it. We would spend entire classes just searching for information we would never use, but it drilled into me how to go about finding the information I need. It's been utterly invaluable. Thank you Mr Ward.
I mourn for humanity.
