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> HN buried Mastodon as a viable social media platform a year ago.
It should be:
> HN buries Mastodon as a viable social media platform every time an HN user posts a moderately popular link to Mastadon.
I want to love Mastodon but until they figure some stuff out they're never going to be a viable platform to (for instance) explain to all those who need to know how one of the largest cloud providers is deeply compromised.
Edit: -4 downd00ts! Haha must have triggered a few oldies who never let go of their hate.
The Microsoft today isn't the Microsoft of the 2000s.
Now I wish the same thing could be said about Google which is quickly becoming the Microsoft of the 2000s.
They still have horrible security. They are still product dumping. They're still ignoring user preferences and forcing their agenda (eg: Edge) They're worse than ever about user privacy.
I could go on. I don't like Google either, but your corporate loyalty is silly. Both can be and are terrible.
Security is no worse than what I see with osx. I don't use Linux because I have real work to do.
Edge is just chrome with a big blue E.
And every company product team ignores its users for monetary gain.
You really can't teach an old dog new tricks.
One of the big reasons that monopolies are really bad is that they are also inevitably incompetent. The fact those two things go hand in hand makes the inherent corruption of monopoly / cartels doubly damaging.
....almost all markets are cartels at a minimum these days
Now if we want to talk about Google...