You can say “fuck” on the internet.

You’re absolutely right!

Altman just needs to cobble together a gold Trump statue, deliver it to the White House, and any bailout needed is his.

Right, but why a Matchbox car? I must have gotten it as a present, but who would buy such a thing and why was it made?

When I was a lad, I had a special edition Halley’s Comet Matchbox Car. No idea why.

Yeah, come get me, motherfuckers.

Great write-up. I’m so glad my college thermodynamics classes armed me with proper skepticism.

Assuming it’s cheap and reliable, exploiting geothermal resources for a local power solution would be useful in some places, I would think.

As predicted, here come all the purity tests.

I know there’s no way to definitively prove it, but in my mind Apple is the safer alternative vs. anything Google. I know you can do custom roms and all that, but let’s face it: It’s a huge pain in the ass. I know, I know, “It’s not really”… I beg to differ. I went through my purity phase with degoogled roms and all that. Due to driver inconsistencies, updates breaking things (even the phone part), and the inability to use a lot of “normal” apps, I gave up and went with an iPhone. Apple’s business model is to sell you the thing at a higher price, thus reducing the incentive to sell your data or enshittify. Yes, that will degrade over time and I’ll reach a threshold at which I’ll reevaluate my options. Given the two major choices, I choose the less terrible ecosystem of the two.

I refuse to have any Google or Meta products on my iPhone. I know that makes me lame here, but we should also understand that any normie would never go to all the trouble of OS tinkering. The are a lot more people who want to degoogle vs. the people who understand how to do rom flashing. Criticizing a person’s degoogle effort as “not good enough” does nothing but drive people directly into the arms of the very evil we wish to diminish. This is a community to banish Google, not everything backed by a for-profit corporation.

Sorry, I just don’t see that happening. “Truth” Social is just a mastodon instance, and yet mastodon still exists. Enshittification is merely the process of giving something for free and rent seeking once it becomes popular. This can’t be done to a protocol.

So in theory he could pay tons of money to ruin it, but that wouldn’t be enshittification. The protocol allows server switching without losing contacts and history, so a real exodus from his sock-puppet instances would still be possible. Therefore nobody would be locked into his instances and forced to pay.

Lemmy is FOSS and federated. How could it become enshittified?