• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?

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      Long gone are the days when I used be excited to read update notes for new features… Now I just hope they don’t god damn force an update on me.

    • spyd3r@sh.itjust.works
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      Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000’s they stopped making products “for” the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.

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        Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they’re the most profitable demographic to market to.

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        shareholders

        If 0.000…01% shareholders count:

        Guessing a lotta us have a few bucks in index funds… suppose that ain’t cool, gotta find a principled fund.

        The most principled funds must only invest in like three companies cuz every corp has some problem.

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      That’s part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.

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      Absolutely. Although, this is just making old technology worse because web 3.0 and AI aren’t performing to corpo expectations.

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      That’s what happens when you aren’t the (sole) paying customer.