Not sure it’s a plan as much as an unintended consequence. The man doesn’t really have a track record of deep thinking.

That was my first thought, those people will be back in the machine when the news dies down.

Uuid

Between Apple walled garden and the new dev signature thing from Google, those big players sure do like control over what we can do as users.

I agree with you, PWA is the way but Apple has been slow walking integration for years now (see https://brainhub.eu/library/pwa-on-ios)

I mean, the Wikipedia page does say it was sold in 2018. Not sure how it was before but it’s not surprising that it enshittified by now.

Or you’re using some kind of proxy/vpn from a server that has been identified as malicious and their subnet is banned in some list. Pretty common and more likely.

I think you mean anecdotes my friend

That’s why I’m posting this 🤷‍♂️

That’s not entirely true, France is battling with very similar issues to the US. A rising far right power, media that are using the fox news playbook, t additional media that is playing catch-up and following the Overton window set by the previous point, similar blue collar struggles, a president that is appealing to the right while claiming the center despite a majority of constituents clearly signaling left in the last elections, etc. France is not far behind unfortunately.

I’d like for him to point at the western hemisphere on a globe.

In mainland China it’s called Douyin, exactly the same app, same company, not the same content of course. It’s separate because Beijing wants a tighter control on social media in mainland China.

Those are the discussions I’m interested in. YT music is making me cringe with ads between nearly every song.

Here’s a writeup by FiveThirtyEight that happens to now be a part of ABC but didn’t participate in this pill: How outlier polls happen — and what to do with them