It not necessarily about evil intentions, instead that without an easy off-ramp for users, a platform is eventually guaranteed to get enshittified, especially if they rely on investor money (which Bluesky does, see their post 1, post 2).

Cory Doctorow wrote a few pieces about the topic:

• Fool Me Twice We Don’t Get Fooled Again
• Bluesky and enshittification

There’s also StoryGraph - it’s not federated, but ran by a tiny UK company, but seems pretty popular. I like the content warnings feature and stuff like readers rating the pacing and moods of the books, which is then displayed with graphs on the book page, but they have also introduced some AI features :/ (fortunately opt-in)

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PieFed has its own share of dodgy stuff:

• opinions of the dev are hard-coded into PieFed’s code with overreaching content blocks, and error messages deliberately lying to users
• plus a 0/5 priority of testability, 1/5 priority of reliability and 2/5 priority of security described in their architecture document

instead of Piefed :)

The web version is very inferior to the desktop one. I had to use it at work and it was a very frustrating experience, e.g. missing many conditional formatting options.

yay :)

I love that idea!

just set it to the January 1st of whichever year would make you 13 when you registered your account 😏 (I remember a platform deleting the account of someone when they, years later, revealed that they were under 13 when they registered)

My Genshin install on PC would be ~115 GB (in practice it’s more bc I have an extra voice pack), while the same game on mobile is allegedly ~30 GB 😒

Ahh my bad, I haven’t read the comic again once I saw which one it was, and forgot it mentions the diet coke thing 😅

Not sure why you’re being this hostile.

CMYK is easy to work around.

But that’s the point, that you need workarounds for such a simple and (if you work with printed materials) essential feature.

So, your argument is, that you can find 1 tool where AI is better, and then everything else doesn’t matter?

That’s literally not what I said, just that I don’t think it’s necessarily the best based on what I’ve read. I agree that it being FLOSS raises its appeal quite a bit, but it’s not quite there yet to replace Illustrator for me.

Well, fine - keep paying a sh*tload of money for Adobe, and use AI, that’s totally fine by me. :-)

Yeah, Adobe’s predatory pricing is why I’m not paying for it. But sadly it’s still the only tool I found that has all the features I need.

Oh, if you’d be so kind, show me something made in AI, that Inkscape can’t do?

A CMYK file lol. But I’m not going to do work for you, you’re clearly not engaging in good faith.

that’s sad :(

I’m only using it for tracking new releases of 400+ Steam developers, which still works 🤞

(mentioning the “400+” part bc I had tried so many other change tracking tools before finding this one, but the free ones all had limits of like 25 sites)

I’m not sure about that “best” qualifier. From what I’ve read, it still doesn’t really support CMYK colour mode and its text tools are lacking compared to Adobe Illustrator.

wrong thread?

Google Keep is a very basic note-taking software. Imho its main appeal is that it seamlessly syncs between desktop browser and phone app - I use it for shopping lists.

Other note-taking apps are much more advanced in features. E.g. I use Obsidian (sadly not open source) for everything that doesn’t need spreadsheets. Logseq, Joplin and SiYuan are open source alternatives recommended elsewhere in this thread.

ooo nice, maybe I could switch away from Total Commander after like 25 years :)

and lastly, Tor Browser: anonymous web browser to evade state censorship and surveillance

qBittorrent: only for your legal torrenting needs from e.g. archive.org :>

Open Hardware Monitor: track and visualise CPU/GPU/HDD/etc. performance over time

(I’ve been using the original repo that I see hasn’t been updated in some years, this is a more active fork.)