There were longbeards early on who warned us that Reddit would centralize discourse, providing a target for pr spooks, and then destroy free expression on the internet, and they were right.
Oh look! Spooks -- stratfor spooks in this case -- think they're aristocrats who get to use censorship for self-preservation. What a shocking, brand new development.
I kept reading past that point and found that it's, so far, worth it. You won't necessarily find anything new if you do a lot of reading on the subject of workplace personal fulfillment, but you will find a reasonable restatement of what type of environment reinforces rather than erodes itself. I've definitely been in environments where I wish I could have shared something like this (but knew that if I did it would only increase the toxicity from others).
Yet another example of our society having a massive, oppressive double-standard about which worldviews should benefit from freedom of express, and of course the beneficiaries ardently refuse to admit there's anything like that going on.
Real shilling/astroturfing is a different phenomenon. It certainly exists, but from everything I've looked at, it's orders of magnitude less common than fans making up bogus accusations about shilling.
> Real shilling/astroturfing is a different phenomenon. It certainly exists, but from everything I've looked at, it's orders of magnitude less common than fans making up bogus accusations about shilling.
This is interesting... how many orders of magnitude?
I'm glad I degoogled. This kind of thing is why.
It wasn't even hard after I got email switched over. If they didn't have a video monopoly, I would never have to use their stuff.
Not sure why this comment was dead, but I vouched for it. I've been slowly separating from Google for a while now for slightly different reasons, namely that I've grown increasingly distrustful of surveillance capitalism on the whole.
Any other mail service is already better than Google's. You don't have to host your own to get off Google, if that's what you're aiming for! There are a lot of other trustworthy providers. As someone who hosts their own email, I'd thank you for diversifying.
While, one the one hand, I don't have a lot of trouble with delivery even from a residential IP address and I'd recommend self-hosting, I understand anyone who's hesitant. My mail lands in Google spamboxes much more often than it should (I don't send any automated mail these days, i.e. not even website notifications or anything: everything is hand-written or at least triggered by the person receiving the email; my sending IP has been stable for a decade). Another downside of Google is that they hide the existence of the spam folder and many people will simply never see it and be able to update its filters by replying to me or marking it as not-spam. Heck, some Google-for-corporate mail service even blocks your email at smtp level and there is no recourse. By diversifying receiving servers, at least Google doesn't get to set one standard: if your mail doesn't arrive in a Google inbox, it's currently extremely hard to argue that "but it's google's fault" (when it totally is). Clearly I as an individual have an issue and the big google doesn't.
It's a pretty site, don't get me wrong, but which law suggests presenting lists of obscurely named concepts as fullscreen shape art where I have to click one by one to read the list?
