tchncs.de runs their own lemmy server along with many other services, at least they seem serious.
There are many different matrix IM clients, both for desktop and mobile. I'm guessing you're thinking of Element, the defacto standard client from the makers of the matrix platform? Some of them are more tailored to the "average user", like FluffyChat and SchchzshchildyChat (???)
IMO the variety of clients only make it more confusing for people unfamiliar with the ecosystem.
On top of that there's different instances. It's about as messy as the ActivityPub-based fediverse.
On my way to sue you for daring to type out the trademark "Nintendo" without proper authorization.
Even if you buy five tablets, won't you still have only three desktops?
You party animal, I went to bed as soon as socially acceptable.
I don't care if the big corpos set up obvious data privacy traps that sucks the data right out of people's pockets any more than I'm upset about a venomous snake on the side of the road. I'm more upset with the people who blindly walk into them despite clear warnings from more knowledgeable people, and in the process gives up OTHER people's data as well.
I don't want Facebook to have my phone number associated with my name, yet I'm sure countless people over the years have given it to them by uncritically accepting the app's terms and pressed the "Sure, go ahead and have full access to my phone's contact list" button.
If one uses Spotify instead of a personal music collection one controls, this is what one gets. If one uses Facebook, Google or similar, this is what one gets.
I read about 1/3rd of the piece until I was sure that not a single one of the problems described concerns me. Because I don't use Sonos, I don't use Spotify and every other shitty service described as enshittified in this text.
I feel sorry for the technologically poor, every single sod who totally relinquishes control of most of their digital life, in a time when more and more of our daily live becomes digital, to people they know are out to get them. I will never understand it.
I'm a man who both stand and clean my own toilet, sorry if your preconceptions are wrong.
It's not dead, just retired.
smee
joined 1 week ago
Are you sure this is merely mildly infuriating?