Such passion and giving. That’s the least offensive thing I’ve seen Trump do.

I know it’s real because I have “common sense”.

I say we handle it like Elon and just say its a real video, boost it to millions of viewers, then remove the article a week later if it turns out fake

And all that only a tiny portion of the hate i feel for greedy billionaires who destroy the lives of millions because they want even more wealth and power

It was nothing personal, more of an off-handed commentary on how things usually end up going after 20 years of seeing literally every site/service I’ve used and most of the companies I once considered “the good ones” eventually get shittier in some way when the business side puts on the squeeze.

The one exception I can think of is Wikipedia.

But I don’t have any reason to think badly of these folks, their current owners seem to have their hearts in the right place and indeed have made decisions that avoid lockin and assure users, and I hope they are another Wikipedia that will endure the tides of enshittification.

But I will never again assume that such hopes will remain the reality, even in this case. This is a snapshot in time. Owners change, priorities change, pricing models change, file formats change, common sense statements of basic decency like “don’t be evil” get rescinded, scrappy fun websites created by free-thinkers become tools of fascist oppression.

That doesn’t mean they don’t deserve your business and support currently. Just make sure your off-ramp options remain acceptable if things begin to change.

“…until we have a large enough userbase to start monetizing and enshittifying…”

Having distro-specific flatpaks really seems to be defeating the whole purpose

They make it illegal except for Trump loyalists

Corporations are people, my friend.

Sociopathic people.

Meanwhile OpenAI no doubt frantically copying the shit out of Deepseek right now

Bot became sentient and started stating empirical observations

Life will be harder for everyone

Consider that we live in a world where Trump was elected twice and you’ll start to get an idea of what the issue is

How long before they introduce some sweet new fascism features?

If this is “testing the waters” then buckle the fuck up folks

Physics

Reality

Then you got people like Musk using their websites as foreign influence platforms to restore Nazis into power so I’d imagine there’s an appetite for not being so reliant on the increasingly belligerent US media oligarchy, which itself is the victim of Fox News and Murdoch.

Plus everything is already enshittified anyway so easy to create better.

His wealth and power is set in stone for generations. Still he whines like society has been so hard on him

I got a free shirt with this around 2010 and thought it was a new thing