• Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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      No, not worse. It’s just not decentralized in a meaningful sense, so it suffers from the same enshittification problems that have killed Twitter, Reddit, BoingBoing, Digg, Slashdot…

      Fundamentally, it’s not any worse, but it’s not any better either.

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          I don’t agree that the idiom implies “worse”. In trying to escape being burnt in the frying pan, you’re getting burnt in the fire. Either way, you’re getting burnt.

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            You don’t get to decide how language works.

            It implies going from a bad situation to a worse one, and has from the moment it existed.

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              30 days ago

              Fine. It’s not the right idiom to express the point.

              Point is still valid, even if I initially expressed it poorly.

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                I think you, and a large number of people on this site, need to accept that the vast majority of people don’t give a shit about FOSS, and many actively view it as a bad thing.

                Especially a government agency.

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                  This isn’t about FOSS. This is about decentralization. You could make that argument on Reddit or Xitter. Not on Lemmy.

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                    You’re being a pedant, all while missing the point.

                    The point is most people don’t care.