I would say the biggest unifying factor for all Lemmy users is the belief that big tech sucks for one reason or another. If you want someone to answer 'No' to this question then you need to ask it somewhere else.
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Yes.
We should have done that yesterday.
But the next best time is now.
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We did. #Linux #LibreOffice #Thunderbird #DuckDuckGo #Nextcloud #Signal #Mastodon
Change is inevitable.
If you live in a capitalist society, everything will eventually become monetized.
Tech isn't the problem; monetization is.
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Yes, of course.
Yes. We already screwed it up when Internet Protocol took over and DNS was established. There were better methods. There are better methods.
That aside, we did have alternatives to big tech software for a long time:
- Linux
- Berkeley Software Distributions
- All GNU software
- LibreOffice
- Mozilla software, at least historically, and forks of it
- Etcetera
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We should have stopped at MySpace.
Regular users were warned 10 years ago to drop all social media like Facebook but they have no incentive to do this. They are now using AI on top of that because they don't care about privacy anymore.
Governments were too lazy to change, but they had/have to do it now because of Trump (mostly) and maybe a bit because of the war in Ukraine, and Russia, China, and North Korea hacking everything. That's why they are now thinking of replacing Microsoft products like Office, creating European clouds, and relying more on European AI. But administrations are not known for being smart or fast in their decisions.
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Depends on who you mean by we; if you mean literally everyone then yes absolutely, but I highly doubt we'd be that coordinated or monolithic. If you mean the people like us on the fediverse who are currently trying to do it then I think starting earlier would only make a mild to modest increase in our number.
Yes but most people don't give a fuck if companies collect and track everything about you just so they can get their menes.
Yes
Yes, or start raising the potential problems much sooner.
To any anti AI millennials I try to point out that there’s a direct line from google search (which millennials were crazy about in the day) to AI.
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