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Sick and tired to be forced to see content from creators that I did't choose to follow, I switched to RSS as an aggregator and doom scrolling is suddenly interesting again.

"Attention Media" is the perfect definition of what those platforms are, the term "social network" is deceiving

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity" - Robert J. Hanlon

If you ever tried to setup a martech stack you konw what a PITA is to comply GDPR without any error

yes, the good news is that once recognized the pattern we can work in the opposite direction

when politics ban science you know things are messed up big time

indeed, it is indipendent from scientific consensus

Great books. One of the authors looks like now is a climate denier, so I wonder myself about the existance of technical approach detached from the scientific one

«Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice.» - Robert J. Hanlon

This sounds like a very smart idea in a climate emergency era.

The MIDI modulation new features are pretty impressive to me.

Great to see Bluesky getting some love from the devs, is such a nice platform 'till now. Looks like a meeting of all the best people after their escape from other poisoned platforms.

"[in Germany] in 2022, CO2 emission goals were exceeded by 40 million metric tons due to the increased use of coal-fired power plants resulting from the necessary cuts in natural gas consumption; estimates for 2023 assume 38 million metric tons.

The Emsland, Isar II and Neckarwestheim II nuclear power plants supplied a total of 32.7 billion kilowatt hours of low-emission electricity in 2022. German private households most recently consumed an average of 3190 kWh of electrical energy per year. This means that these three power plants can supply more than 10 million, or a quarter, of German households with electricity. The resulting reduction in the amount of electricity required from coal-fired power plants could save up to 30 million tons of CO2 per year."

https://www.replanet.ngo/post/open-letter-save-german-nuclea...

It seems more like a move to make things work in a more effective way rather than a move in order to subtle ignore your will. The former can be a side effect, not so terrible if there is transparency and the ability to opt-out the tracking. I should be able to defend my privacy with some switches in a sort of "Manage cookie preferences" page/banner way and to going nuts adding some special chars in my email address.

Smart use of data in an highly effective visualization. Great.

A static website (let's say a Hugo blog on GitHub pages) can make the magic and host the content in a future-proof way.

For the discoverability: every social network can help to drive visitors to your posts.

It's crazy how today a lot of effort are put on decentralizing finance meanwhile the simplest activities (like blogging) are being strongly centralized.

It looks like a reference to the hype cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gartner_hype_cycle

obviously, i've edited the comment in the meanwhile

I came here to write the very same sentence. Signal is so underrated.

it's a pity that we are losing good services cause we are unable to create a fair form of regulation

I strongly recommend everybody to read "The Age Of Access: The New Culture of Hypercapitalism, Where All of Life is a Paid-For Experience" written by Jeremy Rifkin in the year 2000 (!) when his theory was looking like a sci-fi plot or an ante litteram Black Mirror episode.

There is something wrong with it, obviously. But is not deadly and way less dangerous than tobacco or alcohol.

Cool, but I find even cooler the native support in LibreOffice, IIRC. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Macros/Python_Guide