I personally don’t see the “Eureka!” moment that big tech apparently does in moving EVERYTHING to the cloud when they struggle to design safe and reliable services as is. The whole cloud stuff just kind of says “sure it will be a privacy nightmare rife for exploitation from bad actors, but THINK of the money we could earn from it in the long run!”
Some folks really don’t understand they can absolutely get what they want out of the fediverse, they’re that accustomed to the limits of the more mainstream options. It’s whatever they want it to be. If you’re tired of not seeing enough of something, there’s nothing stopping you from creating your own instance or a community within a pre-existing instance and rallying others to engage. You’re always bound to find someone with a few similar interests around.
It will never grow or change if nobody is willing to directly participate in what they wish to see grow or change.
I’ve noticed a few other Max Headroom AVIs on my Kbin browsing journeys, so I want to create a community that actively encourages and promotes using Max as your avatar in some form or another. The broadcast hijacker counts too.
Wait, this was supposed to be from my alt…
This reminds me of that Deathsauce person on here. I know them personally and have it on good authority that they’re still a huge Savage Garden fan to this day.
Read ‘TTS’ with exaggerated glitching/stuttering for maximum effect.
Take me back in time to the 2000s when the most scandalous spyware was a purple gorilla virtual assistant telling awful jokes with a TTS voice.
This about sums up the current state of things well.
It’s the age of Techtalitarianism. They’ve become more brazen and less discreet in the fact they want everyone to pay to access what has become an essential communication method. Soon enough, the “free” aspect of social media will be on par with a video game demo. One or two levels (or features in this instance), certain amount of posting and reading privileges per day, just enough to get a feel for the real thing hidden behind an increasingly hefty paywall.
Corporations will literally do anything except act remotely ethically towards consumers.