• 409 Posts
  • 9.79K Comments
Joined 3 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 5th, 2023

help-circle






  • The technically lirerate people aren’t exempt from the power dynamics created by the vast market share of Chrome and Google, created and reinforced by Google. Even if they/we have some more freedom to maneuver. We still only test our web app features on Chromium because there’s limited time for testing, if any, and we can’t convince product that making sure the feature works, or fixing bugs on a 2-3% browser is priority. If all the developers in the world used Firefox, it would still not change this power dynamic.


  • This is of course thanks to all the people shitting on Firefox over the years and saying that Chrome is just better and that there’s nothing wrong with giving Google control over the web. So yeah, thanks.

    No it’s not thanks to those people. Blaming individuals for not stopping what a much bigger, infinitely more resourced, organized actor has been/is doing to maximize profit is shifting the material responsibiltiy from the actor with real power to the actors without. It’s like the personal carbon footprint oil&gas came up with to shift responsibility for climate pollution from themselves to individuals. Or plastic and recycling. It feels good to lay blame on those people who did something we did not but it doesn’t help change anything material beyond that. Divides us into camps which prevents us from organizing against the profit-driven culprits.











  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.catoToronto@lemmy.caSunset
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    4 days ago

    Technically it’s possible to post from one to the other. But I don’t think it’s possible to have the Pixelfed feed in Lemmy. I keep it simple and have an account on Pixelfed for browsing and posting photos. I think it’s possible to post photos from Pixelfed into a Lemmy community but I haven’t done it.