Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

  • robot_dog_with_gun [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    all the for profit things we use are worse because they are for profit.

    most of the time a site or service UI is made worse it’s because AB testing found the worse UI wastes user’s time and the metrics read that as engagement.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Exactly, most of the bloat on commercial sites isn’t there for the benefit of the user, but rather in order to monetize them. It’s ads, trackers, metrics, and all the other garbage that you don’t actually want.