A lot of people were
Apps aren't even that bad an idea, by themselves. Transmitting only the actual information and not the entire UI every time is a good idea, even more so if the apps are FOSS and the services have open APIs (which admittedly is the exception).
I grew up with IRC and of course everyone seriously using it used a standalone IRC client, not a browser chat interface.
the senator with the snowball, did you really never see that
Are you seriously denying that Käsekrainer and Bernerwürstel are a lot better?
Thou shalt not delude thyself.
Thou shalt not get caught.
In the 2000s we thought user-generated content would lead to a utopian future where we got our opinions from each other rather than from big companies.
Turns out: big companies, governments and other institutions with money are perfectly capable of paying people to be "users" who are "generating content". Now we get (at least some of) our opinions from them and don't even know it.
Cannot confirm. The most upvoted comment I've ever written on Lemmy was exactly about Israel/Palestine: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/4589158
I don't know if this will change now that I've drawn attention to it.
Ad blocking and playing music in the background
Many people have tried that before. Wikis just aren't that appealing anymore. Today's internet is all about social media.
As a general rule, I think the things that tend to happen on each kind of Internet platform with user-generated content are mainly the result of how that platform is structured: which posts are shown to whom under what conditions, etc. These are just some examples of this phenomenon.
schnurrito
joined 1 year ago
ActivityPub, as the name implies, is just a protocol for publishing one's activities. Those activities can be blog posts too (just like they can be Lemmy comments, which is what I'm doing now).
Lemmy only allows subscribing to communities, not arbitrary accounts, but on Mastodon, people can subscribe to anything.