"I did a ride the other day, and she said she paid $102 for a 40-minute ride. I got $25, and that’s because I had a $5 bonus!" said Lyft driver Debora Williams. "It’s just ridiculous."

Come on, cut out the middle man. They're providing nothing of that value.

feddit.uk seems to be online.

Thank you for your contribution.

Yes, they should be legally required to open up access to their service. No more walled gardens that hold a large number of users hostage.

Wikimedia ist ein typisches Beispiel, wie eine Organisation sich so lange ausbreitet, bis das ganze Budget verbraucht ist. Die Hosting Kosten sind für lange Zeit gedeckt und diejenigen, die die Artikel schreiben, machen das ehrenamtlich. Die Wikipedia ist eine wirklich tolle Sache, aber es gibt andere Organisationen, die Spenden mehr verdient hätten.

If it's not ActivityPub compatible I don't care anymore. Interoperability is a hard requirement at this point.

Vote with your wallet is only ever said to those whose wallet is thin.

I don't use any any Google services for good reasons, but I wouldn't trust myself more not to lose my data than Google.

Dual.

Yeah, but they only could provide that by burning a LOT of money in order to gain a monopoly and then squeeze everyone dry. Uber has always been a venture capital sham: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/11/bezzlers-gonna-bezzle/

I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.

Recently Android added another scary "malicious" warning to the already numerous scary dialogs if one tries to install F-Droid. The "Install anyways" button also became hidden in the "More details" menu.