*most* of you guys

The only reason I havent deleted Facebook yet was because of family, but I'm moving em off it and just trying to communicate through email n calling them more n such. Twitter is useless fr. So useless. Instagram should have kept independent n not bought off byFacebook, I'm gonna save all my photos n move off there soon enough

Oh really?

It'd be a shame

If it got deleted

You realise Google Facebook and Twatter don't have the monopoly on user interface

what does "heavy UX" even mean?

Before you could move em off of it

Lol

we had working window managers in the 80s.

web browser in the mid 90s

That'll be a *long* discussion

But just remember how computer illiterate people were back then

And they havent gotten that much better

The Internet was a -much- better place before normies ruined it

Like

Imagine getting everyone here to setup IRC

90% of these guys would get lost

thats easy, x-window based IRC existed decades ago

Again

Most people

I haven't had a laptop since 2015 or something

MIRC for windows is pretty ancient

Cant use it

Wish I had a laptop or smth

Or pc

You are referring to a time when so few people were on the internet

Because you used to require a decent number of brain cells to use apps

I'm baffled by this insistence that if facebook and twitter went away, suddenly nobody would be able to use a computer

most UI/UX bloat is crap layered on crap so that theres a new product to sell or to support lavish websites that are barely usable

I didnt say that

Dont strawman

Then what is your point

@system11 barely usable to us, sure

Not for normies

Coolitic was kissed by alien technology n abducted that's why he's preaching like this

no, ive seen normal people struggle with (for example) windows 10

@Eccles SV is way more than just Twitter or FB

or the labyrinthine mess which is chrome now

What we're demanding is a level playing field with objective and fairly/equally applied rules, protections against monopolies, protection against political intereference and bias, and appropriate taxation

I'd enjoy FF if Mozilla wasnt gay

@Eccles irrelevant

I only struggle because I've literally been without a computer for like 6 years n all I did then was download mods for Halo CE look at memes and turn youtube videos into MP3 files

all browsers are shit, currently - you have to pick the one broken in ways that bother you the least

We were talking about the consequences of ending SV altogether

Overnight

the question is what you mean exactly by 'SV'

All the ventures

All the backend

All the management

It'd be like brexit - a shock followed by period of high entropy as people move platforms, and then back to normal

No

you couldnt nuke it without significant fallout, but if your focus is social media you absolutely could hit the big DELETE button right now and people would get by

You dont think someone else can just make youtube?

It'd be going back to a 90% reduction of the internet

Someone else already did

That no1 uses

Key point

If YT didn't exist, that custom would go elsewhere

Nope, not most of em

Half *at best*

Lol, of course they would

And that's after a long adjustment period

All silicon valley is this right, imagine if all the soda companies instead of having their headquarters in different states imagine they all lived in the same area and they called it "Corn syrup alleyway"

No

Ignorant

Another business will become the next youtube or Facebook or Twitter or google

youtube is much harder to replace, there are no viable alternatives

There are, System11

Yeah server farms are no joke

but twitter we could delete right this minute

@system11 continue this for me plz

I gtg

There are working and scalable alternatives for all these companies

Itll happen not by them making it but people will just migrate to different outlets

They're just small -now-

name a viable youtube alternative

Bitchute

Hah

Lol

videos which are less watched can essentially die on bitchute

Yeah no.

Commies today basically

That's retarded, Joey

Lmao

I mean am I wrong? lol

That's like claiming peasants oppressed under a feudal system are communists because they care about not dying of starvation

bitchute also lacks a working monetisation model, so killing youtube would kill anyone who creates video content for a living and cant afford to set up their own streaming server

Pfft

Youtube lacks a working monetisation model

Okay let's talk about it then

Where is the cheap housing?

it still works for some people

Here? nowhere, Joey

Where is here

UK

See I'm from US

In places of high crime and no jobs at a push

the cheap housing is all in the north where the jobs arent