At this point, the shutdown might even be strategic, to make it more difficult for the us to gather leaked information

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Institutions don’t want to or simply don’t care. Anything else said is just an excuse to give a good-looking response

Judging by the quote, they’re likely going to bluesky. They will say that mastodon has a too restricted reach. It’s like a pattern. Every time I see someone coming with that “there’s no ethical [thing] under capitalism”, instead of promoting the anticapitalist things or the most ethical choices, they use the phrase to justify using another capitalist thing.

When they close, it will be a huge loss of information in the internet…

We’re 0 days since last windows update broke functionality

I don’t know how online banking access is around the world, but here in brazil, they made it completely impractical to use from computers by applying artificial restrictions. Some payment institutions doesn’t even support access from computers anymore. Meanwhile, accessing from the phones has been made easier and less restrictive, so basically everyone has to do banking from the phone. It has even become a popular thing to have a separate “banking phone” to use at home, but many people can’t affort that.

Their strategy:

• announce they will make extreme restrictions
• people get crazy over it and backlash
• announce that they’re listening to people and will soften the proposed restrictions
• people relax and accept the restrictions, while the media portray them as the good guys

But what if they starting requiring that you remove the sideloaded apps? We’re getting trapped

So, we will have to enable developer mode for that? How long before banking and government apps refuse to run if you have “sideloaded” apps installed? This will be the same as not allowing the majority of people to sideload. No win in here, just an advanced strategy from google to make us conform

This user ducks

Imagine destroying those robots as a hobby just to make the big tech lose money

Better yet. Say that the software isn’t intended for any use at all and they don’t allow you to download it, but then leave an open directory with the images

But what’s a terminal operating system in this context?

Don’t stop at chatgpt. Cancel any subscription you have! Stop using any big corporation you can!

Never too late. the idea that it’s past time only benefits the big tech

We can stop using their services, move to open source, stay with older hardware (so that they don’t get money from us) and promote the few open hardware projects

They just fear or losing users to other apps in places with restricted access

Just commenting so you have one more line to read

Teach us your ways!

I didn’t really like the name microslop, but after their reactions, now I love and use it