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I’ve not read All-Star yet, but I keep getting it recommended to me. Thanks!

Have you ever read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman%3A_Red_Son ?

I’m not a big fan of Superman stuff, but I found that one to be pretty interesting.

Youtube has been hiding videos from me for years. I’d look at my “Subscriptions” page, and wouldn’t see anything new. Then I’d go to the channel’s page, and see a few new videos.

That prompted me to start using my RSS reader instead of youtube subscriptions. A more reliable experience, for sure.

Sorry no :(

It’s an “IRL” friend only thing, and I don’t want to associate this account with my real name (My IRC instance has my name tied to it)

But I’d be happy to help you get connected to one of the public servers if you need! :)

I <3 IRC

I still run my own server. My friends and I hang out and play with chat bots and send memes and comics back and forth. It’s a pretty chill place to hang out, and it’s super easy to self-host.

Go take back the web that was taken from you.

Do you mean Subverse? Searching for Subspace is just redirecting me to Subverse, but maybe I’m missing it

IRC is still around! I run my own server and everything. It’s still a blast :)

I can’t even count the amount of times I’ve sent some variation of “Yeah, so I think we should reboot the server:wq” into irc

They got a lot of money by selling out their users. They are still getting a lot of money by selling out their users.

Wait, you mean the people that hoard all of our resources and don’t pay taxes will leave? Oh noes! 😱 What will we do without them…

LoL, that wasn’t the original internet. That was years after the internet had been around. <joke here about these kids needing to get off my lawn>

What is the gain? What is a single gain you think they have milked from their users?

But nobody pays for Firefox? Do you mean the “recommended pages”?

They get money from Google, advertisements, and selling data. Did you think Mozilla made it without paying their employees and executives?

The costs only ballooned because the companies keep bloating themselves. It’s gotten cheaper to make games, but more expensive to run giant companies that pay ludicrus amounts of money to executives.

Money for their executives

“…from email to LLMs, that nobody self-hosts”

As someone that self-hosts those things, both professionally and personally, I’m gonna have to disagree. I wish more did, but there are plenty of self-hosters out there, they just don’t get headlines.

Yes. I find a lot of people actually learn what they are talking about before talking about it. I also find that a lot of people read what I write, and address those points, rather than points that I never made.

And I have a hard time addressing people who refuse to research, and keep arguing against things that I never said.

Citation requested

Do some searching here, on reddit, etc. You’ll find it.

Good for the massive waves of people who want to give Mozilla money. They already can https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/?form=donate-header

That’s not what I said. I said that they wanted to donate to Firefox, not Mozilla. I find it very telling that Mozilla doesn’t let them do that, but insteads forces people to donate to the org, that overpays it’s executives.

Oh yeah. I LOVE when my boss tells me that I am going to get paid less but I will be more effective because of it. Oh, wait, no I don’t.

Who said that the people who are actually working on Firefox would get paid less? I certainly didn’t. I clearly said that the useless executives would get paid less

Honestly? it sounds like you don’t care about reality and just care about things being ideologically pure for you with the expectation that it will all work out. So… maybe try to educate yourself on any of all this before trying to have a discussion about it?

I have. But you clearly didn’t read what I posted. If you aren’t going to address the things that I wrote, why comment?

I find some sites like that, but for the most part, if not having JS breaks the site, then I just move on. It’s very rare that there is only one website where I can find the information that I need.

I also have it set up so that it’s just one button to re-enable JS, so it’s quick and easy to turn on if I decide to do so.