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4 percent of the browser market is still well over a hundred million users.

Google leverages their monopoly search position to push people towards Chrome, using messages that, to lay people, imply a lot of websites won't work correctly unless they install …

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You used to be able to do this, but e-mail has been required for some time. Over on Lemmy, it is the instance operator's choice whether or not to require e-mail, but most instances…

In theory the regulators, as part of the government, serve the will of the people. But the state under capitalism serves no one but the massive corporations which these regulators …

The capitalist class on the other hand is famously innocent of thuggery. It's not like the established socioeconomic relations in Korea were incubated under a military dictatorship…

You either approach it from the social perspective, or the utilitarian perspective. From the social perspective, the goal is building a community. To build a community, people need…

It's a mistake to think echo chambers are a phenomenon which only take place on the political extremes. Reddit itself is an echo chamber of tepid liberal orthodoxy and American exc…

Counterpoint: If you are a member of an oppressed group and the leaders of your community punish people for calling you slurs, it makes it pretty obvious that they do, in fact, hav…

It's actually a great feature. It sorts out the edgelords very quickly, while taking 10 minutes to disable for any administrator with a modicum of technical prowess. If removing a …

If not being able to say the N-word impedes your ability to articulate your political worldview, you should probably reflect on that.

Ideology is when you disagree with the status quo, and the more you disagree with the status quo, the more ideological you are. And when you disagree with the status quo a whole lo…

If you want leftists to engage with you in good faith, you simply need to ask the right questions. Questions that demonstrate a baseline of familiarity with the history and theory …

Wait. You mean those "Heckin adorable Police Pupperino" threads that inevitably pop up on r/DogsWithJobs and r/Pics without fail every time the cops lynch another Black man?

This criticism could just as easily apply to Reddit. The entire thing is an echochamber of American civic religion and they ban any subversive communities. Their director of conten…

There was a wave of Pirate Parties about a decade ago, but they never gained even as much traction as the Greens. Onerous enforcement of intellectual property is just one of the ma…

Another great thing about the Slashdot moderation system was the "overrated" and "underrated" tags. A comment could get moderated as "-1 Flamebait" then get moderated as "+1 Underr…

I haven't been around Tildes in a while, but they are doing the right thing when it comes to producing an alternative to Reddit - which is focusing on building a community rather t…

There is no justifiable reason why one person's vote should be worth more than another.

I'm quite partial to the Bongcloud opening myself. http://www.chessmastery.com/bongcloud.pdf

Moderating discussion forums is not censorship.

McConnell has no ideology besides accumulating power.

> Why is there no privacy focused Facebook or Google? The tongue-in-cheek answer to this is that they all eventually get bought by Facebook or Google. Anything that poses a threat …

Nonsense. In many cases, vendor lock-in and the network effect present a substantial hurtle to living free of these companies. Sure you can quit Facebook, but they'll still build a…