We need at least one of “hide reply” or “limit who can reply.” It’s like anyone can come and shit on your living room floor. And while you can throw them out after the fact, you can’t mop up the turd.
how to browse the web in 2024
1. open site
2. close email subscription pop up
3. close push notifications
4. dismiss cookies pop up
5. dismiss the request for your location
6. close the "did you find what your were looking for?" dialog
7. apologize to those around you for the loud swearing
8. try to remember why you opened the site in the first place
i will say though it's more fun than outdoors these days since it's so hot and mosquito covered and everything costs money to do. 😅
Did You Know?
you can write your own #irc server in less time than it takes to read the discord privacy policy and terms of service
When I was growing up, I was promised, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, that if I followed the rules that the authorities told me to follow, the system would grant me a comfortable life.
What I discovered was that the rules are arbitrary and variable and impossible to follow perfectly, the authorities are arbitrary and variable and impossible to understand perfectly, and the promises were lies they told to prompt my compliance with the system.
The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.
I guess most humans are pretty comfy with their physical form or the natural ways to agument it?
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.