The Fediverse (specifically Lemmy and PieFed) have much higher signal to noise ratios and are frequented by the same folks you see here in a lot of cases. Additionally, their APIs are open and free.
Contrast this with another story on the first page this morning: "Google are deliberately breaking YouTube when it detects you're running Firefox" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42388983).
Open-source content on the Fediverse will become more critical as corporate oligarchs continue to exert their influence.
This is mostly an opinion piece that's critiquing issues we've only begun to solve.
Also, Elon has now shown us all the absolute danger of centralized platforms. Email and web servers are a federated system and function just fine, so I'm disinclined to believe so hand-waving about how this "wont ever work."
> But China can continue to improve the quality of life for Chinese people if they don't do anything really stupid and end up isolated like Russia.
This is extremely unlikely. Half (HALF!) of China's 1.2B people will be dead by 2050. The CCP is almost certainly doomed to fracture/fail due to this factor alone. Additionally, Xi has elevated himself to cult-leader like status and killed every person who ever brought him bad news. No nation run like that will succeed for long.
Lastly, China imports vast quantities of food and oil and has a tiny navy. They are wholly dependent on the outside world - a point that Peter explores in greater depth in his earlier books.
I'd love to see the engagement metrics over time. How many minutes are people really spending per-session on Facebook now compared to years ago? It has to be trending downward...
We're not slaves anymore. You as a human being are allowed to express your thoughts and opinions. Would we know how awful it was at Activision/Blizzard if those employees had not said something? Elon and C-Suite execs own and control everything, no need to bootlick.
Dark Reader and other extensions aren't necessary. Chrome has built-in functionality (since v78) to turn every website dark and works flawlessly on 99% of sites.
I replaced jQuery with vanilla JavaScript a couple of years ago and never looked back. Between the abundance of features in ES6 now and the death of IE, I wouldn't recommend any junior developers utilize libraries like these.