Facebook: “Hold my beer. I’ll show you who’s the real cancer of the internet.”

This is the way.

Nah, too much freedom. Use Red Star OS to properly restrict your activities and let NK know what you’re doing.

Breaking news! Trump said something, and it wasn’t true.

So when I walk past some bicycles parked outside of a store, and simply use my eyes to determine if they have locks, I’m essentially a hacker.

That’s probably true for now. Killing the API would be too much of a shock to millions of people, which would obviously hurt business.

However, making small changes every year is more acceptable. Remember how ads were initially rolled out vs. what they are today? At first, it was just an ad banner below the video, and I was willing to quit YT then and there. Well, turns out ad blockers handled that, so I stuck around. However, a shocking number of people still don’t use an ad blocker, such as Ublock Origin on Firefox, and they seem to just tolerate the ads. These changes happen so gradually, that people get used to them.

My guess is that YT will keep on making the service worse every year, and eventually it will be the time to kill the API. At that point, everything else will probably be so bad, that nobody will even notice the API any more.

And that means that using nail polish remover in weather like that is going to be annoying. That stuff evaporates very easily as it is, but in weather like that it’s all gone as soon as you open the bottle.

I follow the “buy a Windows computer, install Linux, and slap an Apple sticker on it” school of thought. If it’s an Android phone, I would recommend using another Apple sticker.

The way I see it, we’re finally sliding down the trough of disillusionment.

I agree with you for the most part, but you omitted the symbiotic (or even mutualistic) relationship users and platforms have. For example, Google provides a video platform, and user provide the videos. Such a transaction comes with a contract we all neglected to read, but accepted regardless. As far as the contract is concerned, both parties should be fine with this situation. Nobody is stealing anything.

Obviously, this situation has quite a few problems, and the Fediverse addresses many of them. However, self hosting text, audio and video doesn’t happen for free, just like Google can’t run their servers for free. Either you pay directly to the devs and admins, or you find other creative ways to make money flow. That’s where the Fediverse and commercial platforms differ greatly.

Seems like business as usual for Google. Didn’t they also follow the wishes of China a few years ago?

Nah, too late. Now that I’ve finally migrated to the fediverse, I’m staying here.