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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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        -84 days ago

        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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          94 days ago

          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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            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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              14 days ago

              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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                54 days ago

                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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                  Agencies will have to share custom-developed code amongst each other in an effort to prevent duplicative software development contracts under a new bill signed into law by President Joe Biden.

                  That’s not what open source means.

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                    Are you expecting that regular people will understand what foss means without ever seeing it before? The law is literally named the Securing Open Source Act. By law, code that is not classified must be open source.

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      it suffers from the same enshittification problems that have killed Twitter, Reddit, BoingBoing, Digg, Slashdot

      I’ll easily agree that these platforms are bad, but saying anything “killed” them is very, VERY generous. Reddit and slashdot are very much still a thing, and they don’t look like they’re slowing down, despite the supposedly insurmountable issues. Keep in mind that the goal of a “social network” (for lack of a better word) is having an audience. Reddit literally shat on its user base, AND on the people that kept the site usable, and communities are still thriving there.