You’re seriously blaming company for trying to make their product popular. Even if we assume that current Chrome state violates the anti-trust legislation, that’s still a pretty silly moral condemnation.
Hard disagree. Discord is great place for non-tehnical-project communities
"Normally, rooms are silent, and no one is chatting"
Yeah, cause you went to unactive servers. It would be like coming to Hackernews, opening first link in newly submitted, and complaining that no one is here.
Just go to active servers. Servers I frequent are very active.
"The UI as a whole is a jumbled mess that feels bloated"
Another hard disagree. UI is one of my favourite things about Discord. It feels very well designed and it even works very well on mobile. I'm quite impressed by this aspect
"That is: without ads, people would gravitate towards buying what fits their needs best. They would make generally rational choices given the information available."
Not to sound snarky, būt have you met humans?If sociology and economics have shown anything, itš that human do NO make rational consumption choices
"If the reward from working is barely enough to cover the necessities, then there is technically no difference between working as a free citizen, and being forced to work as an indentured servant, other than a vague notion of freedom, which in that case is the freedom to decide between working and living on the streets."
What an incredibly privileged perspective. Do you think that actual indentured servants would agree with you on this?
umm you DO know that Gmail isn't only free email, right? Like, just use another one which doesn't force 2FA. Why is this become an issue? I don't get it
Google? Definitely. Meta? Not really. All Meta has is two social networks and one messaging service. They haven't really experienced huge success in anything else. They MAY hit big in VR/AR space, but that's yet to be determined.
This is why massive companies like Meta and Alphabet needs to be nationalised. They simply have too much power over lives of billions.
This article is just another reminder of this. At scale that Meta operates, this algorithmically decided domain blockings mean nothing to them, but everything to hundred's of non-profits. There need to be legally mandated protections so things like this never happen again.