No Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Spotify, or apple?
Google seems front and center too after the recent “privacy” updates to chrome (the web browser with 2/3 the global market share).
What did Spotify do to deserve a spot?
Oh boy, a whole lot. I was compiling a list, but it turns out that Spotifys shady business practices has a whole wikipedia page. Not sure if it’s included in there but Joe Rogan. Just everything about the Joe Rogan deal. As well as their ties to the military industrial complex. It’s less “what have they done?” and more “what haven’t they done?”
What music platforms would you suggest as an alternative? Apple Music can’t be that much better, can it?
Tidal is pretty popular, they at least pay artists more. There’s a couple other recommendations I’ve seen floating around on lemmy but the names are escaping me atm. I don’t think there’s any services out there with clean hands tbh, but limiting the harm from your consumption is better than doing nothing about it
Your comment actually inspired me to try the free trial for Tidal and I really like it. In the future I might switch over to it from Spotify, at least they seem to pay artists better.
Spotify is a DRM-infested despicable hellhole
And one that platforms fash or fash-adjacent imbeciles
Destroying artist’s livelihoods, for one thing. Shady business practices, for the other.
I guess Facebook is bad for it’s… Well general shittiness… But they did invent react which a lot of the good parts of the internet use
And llama. They’re making it so that small companies can compete in the AI game
Could all be summed up in the last one: capitalism
Well the camera one doesnt technically have to be capitalism.
You’re right, not necessarily
None of them have to.
Greed. Taking more than equilibrium. People focus on the apparatus but not the source. We don’t need to change the system we need to change human nature.
Oh shut up. If human nature is based on greed because you see people taking more than they need, then it’s equally if not more based on mutual aid, since you have doubtlessly also seen people sacrifice their own desires and needs for the love of others. Why is one human nature, but not the other?
Where is greed in open source? Where is greed in volunteer work?
You’ve missed the point. The structures of our society is emergent from human will. Greed is a blunt word for an aspect of collective human will. I didn’t imply it was the only one, ya dummy.
Then a society based on cooperation would also be an expression of human nature, and a much better one.
I apologize for calling you a dummy. It was just a response to you telling me to shut up. I wholly agree, society based on on cooperation and the nurturing of that cooperation would be great. We should identify and implement changes to our human nature to foster such a ideal. We need trust and transparency and the removal of our levels of separation for a start, I think. I dunno, what are your thoughts?
I apologise for saying to shut up. I just feel strongly that us humans cannot be defined by greed. I agree with transparency and the removal of artificial divisions, such as race, nationality and class. And i also believe the only way we can achieve this is with a worldwide revolution. I believe such a thing is totally possible, but exceedingly unlikely.
The structures of society are created by human will, but the structures in place and the interactions they require also shape our values as cultures. Capitalism is a system in which by owning capital, wealth and the means of production, a capitalist derives profit from the workers who are the producers using the tools and facilities owned by the capitalist. To be successful in this, or to raise yourself above the working class, you must own capital and use it to derive profit to increase your capital further, or else other capitalists will take your place in the market.
Capitalism and market based economies have only been a part of the global structure for a small minority of the total time that humans have created societies. There are thousands of years we have very little information of, making it difficult to derive what sort of social structures were in place in different societies.
In the absence of pressures like poverty and economic competition, people help each other. When someone trips in front of you, the vast majority of people will be concerned and help them up. I truly believe altruism is a core aspect of ‘human nature’ as much or more than greed.
Can’t say I understand the point you’re trying to make. Are you saying these things should not be hated?
All of “triple AAA” Gaming, i.e.: Activision-Blizzard, Ubisoft, Microsoft (classic), …
Unity does not qualify as “internet thing”
Also if they’re considered on the level as all these other companies there needs to be dozens more at that table before them.
Whenever something or someone appears on the internet they have a grace period where small mistakes are forgotten and bigger ones are forgiven, but eventually the time runs out and everybody will hate you.
I had been starting to develop a unity game just as a hobby. RIP.
Great time to pick up Godot, though
Unfortunately they’re not directly comparable though. Godot is missing a lot of tooling when it comes to 3D, especially compared with Unity.
Good reason for a dev to start contributing to godot. Be the change you want to see. In open source it is even actually possible.
I can’t argue with you there, but the engine code is also significantly more complex than the project code, and I’m not too familiar with how to create it. But, you raise a good point that it’s time to learn.
Thank you. I am only a hobby dev but I‘m also considering contributing to the projects I use for my home lab. It’s quite intimidating as I‘m not proficient in any language but I‘ll give it a go at some point.
2023 still not done, plenty of room for more shit companies and situations to unfold!
Oracle, IIRC they are/were the biggest data gatherer.
Got so many ad blockers about the only time I see ads is when I accidentally look at a billboard
You’re forgetting the guy with the second biggest mug in the world.
Ah yes, the paypal mafia. Most of it explains that pic. Techno feudalists trying to take over capitalism with capitalism 2.0: even thinking a thought will be charged edition
Bring back the old Soviet Internet, before it was privatised!
The amount of times capitalism gets dragged into a thread that has nothing to do with economics or politics is, quite frankly, astounding.
edit: I get it, you are all replying the same thing. Point taken, capitalism has its hands in everything. My point: we don’t have to circlejerk about it every 3 seconds. I would rather not delete this comment, but why isn’t there a block notifications button on Lemmy?
The number of people who still don’t understand that absolutely everything is politics and economics is, quite frankly, astounding.
We understand, we just don’t want to talk about it all the fuckin time
Capitalism is a function of everything that happens in a capitalist society
It’s almost like the economic mode of production touches and influences everything in our lives
You tankies have thick skulls. No one here is saying capitalism is good. That’s beside the point
If you answer at least try to address the point
There is a point at which conversation breaks down and everything you say is basically ignored because people on the internet make snap judgments about what you’re saying and filter it into the category of “agree” or “disagree” and then up/down vote accordingly. I don’t have time to go back and forth with people on the–fuck, I just responded
My sibling in Christ, you broke the conversation down,it didn’t magically happen. Someone responded in good faith and you were an asshole instead of continuing the conversation or offering literally anything of substance
Eh, maybe you’re right, but I was getting dogpiled and it gets old fast. Honestly, I think capitalism is a major problem and we can replace it with something better, but people on Lemmy are so fucking obnoxious about it that my patience wears thin. If you say anything remotely against that group think, you will get dogpiled. The other day, I had a post that said something about China/Tiananmen Square, and had so many comments complaining. I don’t think I even encountered this much toxicity on reddit, this is ridiculous. Hence the “you tankies” comment.
people on the internet make snap judgments about what you’re saying
Crazy, you’re describing exactly what you did
Good or bad it’s everywhere and has its fingers in everything.
Which part of my comment implied you did? Seems like a poor choice to be calling other people thick skulled when you’ve just failed basic reading comprehension.
Counterpoint: using the word “circlejerk” to disparage points we’d rather ignore is a really annoying thing to do.
Pretty much any mainstream social media imo
