Sigh, so is Mozilla just like Google now? Can’t trust any services to stick around?

So the plot of Johnny Mnemonic?

Here’s one. And their profits went up when they replaced their CEO https://www.forbes.com/sites/sherzododilov/2024/01/11/can-ai-become-your-next-ceo/

Tbf human operated cars are also murder machines, we just are more amenable to tolerating it

20 years ago while learning web development Dreamweaver was going to supposedly eliminate the need for code on websites too. lol

But sadly, the dream of eliminating us seems like it will never die

It’s definitely better…but. Thanks to Google SEO the internet it’s bringing you results from is still filled with shit

I thought this was going to be about setting up packet radio and making offline backups of Wikipedia, for when the world tears itself apart less than a year from now 😓

Oh yeah. I remember this episode of Mr. Robot

Shit. I misread. OP’s image is for the whole fediverse… 🤦‍♂️

But still…no way that’s active users

Although FediDB claims we have about 418k active

Nope, that’s gotta just be registered users. We’re kidding ourselves and don’t even have 200k active users

*update: this is just Lemmy users, but OP was talking about all of the fediverse *

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Firefox needs to ship with IPFS & IPNS built in, then we’d have a Distributed web. Which is I think what you’re asking for maybe?

I certainly have no interest in buying one as long as he’s still involved

Of course it’s going to backfire. China will just make their own chips and probably outpace everyone at some point. They’re starting out behind, but they will catch up

I think another issue here is a side effect of the move to Software As A Service. With installed software you could run an old version nearly forever, but with SASS you’re always on the latest version