Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.
I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?
It's frustrating seeing the twitter drama lead so many people to try to get into that blue website, rather than Mastodon, because people are conditioned that only capitalist-backed things exist. Same deal with people still using Windows I guess.
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Federated services just seem really resource and labor inefficient too. Not to mention that the whole anti-censorship extreme privacy scene has been tainted by hate speech, misinformation and cp.
The most pressing problem is the lack of a coherent business plan for what are glorified bulletin board systems with addictive design patterns and surveillance. I just want a big dumb phpbb at this stage.