erranto

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[–] erranto@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

They are very fierce at censoring their IP material, anything that lands on youtube that hasn't been altered to avoid copyright bot, gets taken down immediately. even shows that have aired the same day.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Yep, even when bing censors something, it gets censored by DDG aswell, DDG is just a fancy proxy.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I have been following the DMA closely, and so far it has been a big disappointment, just as I expected.

The way the EU approaches this walled garden problem, is to try and offer ways for other competitors to tap into the user base of the bigger players instead of trying to allow all EU citizens to chat with any other EU citizen who uses META Products regardless of their host platform. meaning "us" people who wish to self host an xmpp or Matrix servers and chat with facebook friends, It won't be straight forward or entirely possible for us to do so. unless maybe by doing a KYC with META. and signing up very stringent service agreements.

Meta will be creating all sorts of hurdles the DMA laws will allow them to, to cripple interoperability, from making other plateform signing up to special permissions from Meta, to hiding interoperability settings and making them opt-in, and building a scary rhetoric why you shouldn't be allowing other people outside of META to get in contact with you. There are some valid concerns, but I suspect Meta will implement the most spiteful procedures they can get away with, then spin up a rhetoric about proving their users being massing against interoperability.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months ago (51 children)

Those who buy apple products deserve each other.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know where you are getting your numbers. maybe it's your selection bias, but facebook's userbase keeps groing, and even if its getting less teenager engagement, those teenagers are flocking to Meta's other platform Instagram.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 55 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Contrary to many in here, I don't think this will cause another exodus from reddit. those who might be concerned by this have already left or reduced their time on the platform

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I am not criticizing the free work of the open source community. it is just a recognition that commercial software is way ahead of anything the FOSS community has produced so far. And this is true for almost all software categories

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

If you are doing professional work. than Gimp doesn't come close to Photoshop, when they will introduce non-destructive editing Gimp will definitely become better. but PS keeps widening the gap with very powerful tools like AI fill an stuff.

  • Gimp needs to seriously reconsider their UX/UI design it is an absolute nightmare. it feels like trying to steer a spaceship from Startreck.
[–] erranto@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Hopefully, Matrix [Element & al ] and Revolt will catch up to discord

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

As long as they keep getting money out of it. and with record numbers year over year. they have no incentive to change course. Google has a monopoly over search engine that affords them the unique position of not giving a dime about user satisfaction. the users are trapped anyway!

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I don't believe Apple made this product to sell. it might be just marketing ploy to keep people talking about Apple and how they are always ahead of the curve. they have a brand reputation to maintain.

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