• kbal
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    4816 days ago

    I’m sort of tired of articles describing some catastrophe that happened ten years ago and saying “it’s worrying.”

    • @alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      916 days ago

      Agreed, this article would have made sense in 2020 or earlier.

      And now we have the fediverse, which is causing a resurgence of content that is independent of Reddit or Discord.

    • @tfm@europe.pubOP
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      316 days ago

      Is it? When was the last time you googled something and the first website that came up didn’t spit out some SEO or garbage content?

      • Pennomi
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        516 days ago

        Like every day? Yeah it’s worse now but Google is still useful for a lot of things.

        That being said, I do have AdBlock so it’s a different internet for me.

        • @tfm@europe.pubOP
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          116 days ago

          Have you ever tried DuckDuckGo or Qwant? They have better results in my opinion, as long as you don’t care about the business snippets.

          • drzoidberg
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            216 days ago

            DuckDuckGo is so much better than Google. Barely any ads, and results that are actually useful 9 times out of 10.

      • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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        416 days ago

        Today. Among thousands of times.

        I’m with OP. People have been screaming this for ages, and the collective societal reaction hasn’t even been apathy, but “We vote for Big Tech CEOs, full steam ahead.”

        So… Yeah, I’m tired, too. Screw it all. Let the internet burn in Reddit/Discord/SEO hell. Maybe we can build something from the ashes.

        • @tfm@europe.pubOP
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          216 days ago

          How about strengthening the Fediverse and Lemmy?

          Let the internet burn in Reddit/Discord/SEO hell. Maybe we can build something from the ashes.

          So basically, let the world burn? Because that’s what it looks like we’re heading toward right now because of big tech.

          Maybe we can build something from the ashes.

          The big question is whether it will be us who do that.

          • @brucethemoose@lemmy.world
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            116 days ago

            let the world burn

            That’s what’s gonna happen.

            Maybe Europe and China will “isolate” themselves from much of the burning. I hope they do. But the rest of the world seems quite entrenched in Big Tech.

            Maybe burning quickly is better, since more people will notice.

      • @maho@lemmy.funami.tech
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        315 days ago

        Better question would be “when the last time you googled something without prefixing it with ‘reddit’ to get good results” 🤭