Enshittification of Xbox Live was day one of launch, dude. Online used to be free, nobody charged for it until Xbox did.
This is kinda why I wish we had user-level instance blocking, there aren't any popular instances that match my preferred blocklist and I don't want to have to go out and request federation for everything I want to see. For example, the top sites I don't want to see are lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and exploding-heads, and while beehaw gets all three, they also block instances I don't find problematic like lemmy.world.
So I ended up on lemmy.world and manually block all the stuff I don't want to see, but it'd be loads easier if I could just ask not to be shown content from instances I want to avoid.
Is it appropriate to contact the instance admins in this case? Not really sure what the procedure is for this issue on Lemmy.
Who needs lobbying when you can just collect blackmail data on politicians because they willingly install your app?
When I'm at home sitting around thousands of dollars of gaming hardware, I'm going to use that.
When I'm out and about with less processing power, then I retro game.
They really paid $8 million to reinvent something that already exists. Like I'm using it right now to talk shit about Bluesky.
Alright, let's say I'm a Windows user who wants to dual-boot Linux and was planning on Fedora because I've heard it's pretty good for someone transferring over from that OS, but this telemetry bullshit has turned me away.
What would you say is next best?
@gk99
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