Shareholder Blight?

What term would you prefer?

What thing are you referring to?

Yes, it’s unfortunate it didn’t have a positive effect long term due to being coopted. :(

As people are going to continue to use twitter style websites until they fall out of fashion, I figure its best if that twitter-like is at least not controlled by people who can go rogue and do severe damage to society, such as what happened with twitter.

We realistically can’t ban them, we can only mitigate the bad. Personally I don’t use twitter style social media, only Lemmy.

Enshittification is specifically how something inevitably gets worse and more anti-user due to pressures from capitalism/shareholders/profit incentive.

Rot, at least in my mind, is not that specific. It could mean the codebase is not well maintained and slowly failing, as an example.

It’s unlikely it’ll go back in the bottle, and that style of social media is capable of facilitating positive social change (Arab spring as one example) that may not have been possible without it.

There’s a quote from Eric S. Raymond about the issue of getting people to switch to something better (in this case the OS Plan 9) if there’s already something that’s fulfilling the need just enough that it becomes difficult to get anyone to move.

it looks like Plan 9 failed simply because it fell short of being a compelling enough improvement on Unix to displace its ancestor. Compared to Plan 9, Unix creaks and clanks and has obvious rust spots, but it gets the job done well enough to hold its position. There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough.

The fear now is that people will just switch to Bluesky until it becomes like Twitter, and it’s not a guarantee that Mastodon will be next in line. It could be another closed service that’s primed to take its place, and thus, the cycle continues.

“What the fuck dude, you’re talking like there’s no paper in tray two after I just filled it. Fuck off!”

Toe shoes would qualify as barefoot too, but I they’re just a more extreme version I think.

Barefoot shoes usually have 3 traits:

• Zero Drop - The shoe is the same height from the back to the front, so your heel isn’t higher up than your toes
• Flexable, thin soles with no arch support - Allows you to feel the ground and build up strength in your feet and arches
• Wide toe box, to allow for your feet to retain their natural shape for comfort and stability.

This video does a good job of explaining why those other two traits are desirable.

I started with these. Unfortunately only available on amazon, but they were an affordable way to try them, and they’ve been surprisingly durable!

Once I confirmed that I loved the barefoot style, I eventually invested in some vivobarefoot boots as well, and those have been fantastic. (If you go that route someday, look for them on eBay and wait for a deal).

I have duck feet, and always assumed ‘wide’ shoes were just how a well fitting shoe was supposed to feel.

Then I bought a cheap pair of barefoot style shoes, which often have ridiculously large toeboxes that some people avoid just due to how they look.

It was nirvana; finally, a shoe that truly fit! I can never go back now.

Also @Soup@lemmy.world, you might wanna try some if you haven’t!

My old pixel 4a with graphene os is still as fluid and snappy as the day I bought it.

And, at least from what I recall, the incentive for bell to toss that excess money into research, is the corporate tax rates were so high it would’ve been taken from them if not spent anyway.

Depending on how long ago that was, you may have a much better experience. Linux now has a new audio subsystem that is low latency, and generally just works out of the box with DAW’s now.

FL studio is known to work well in wine, but third party VSTs can be hit or miss.

Your experience with XMPP will vary depending on the client you use. It’s not a 1 to 1 replacement for discord, and I’m not sure if there’s a client that can do group calls, but It can do 1 on 1 calls and group text chats. I’d recommend Cheogram for mobile, and possibly movim for desktop.

For group audio calls, if you found matrix unstable, then Mumble is likely your best bet, or perhaps Signal, if that’s not banned as well.

Microsoft offers a long-term support version of Windows called LTSC that’s stripped down, only receives security updates, and is supported for 10 years from its release.

It’s only officially available to business clients, but with a little yar har fiddeldy dee, you too can experience extended support!

Perhaps Privacyguides.org, but I’m not aware of a replacement for the exhausting level of detail and breadth which thatoneprivacysite once provided.

Bear in mind that info hasn’t been updated since 2019, when the OG thatoneprivacysite sold out to a shady company. The .xyz site is an old backup someone put up of the site before it changed to only recommend a handful of bad VPNs.

Humans are also inherently cooperative for survival, and it has been argued by some credible historians that our current forms of antagonistic society is an abberation from the norm.

Catalonia during the Spanish revolution is a pretty solid example. It showed no signs of not working until they were forced to stop due to Franco winning the war. Wikipedia entry for more info.