this post was submitted on 09 Aug 2023
326 points (95.8% liked)

Technology

59148 readers
2268 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Thought I'd post the PeerTube version.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] backgroundcow@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So, what you are saying is that by checking this trust API, we can filter out everyone running unaltered big-media approved browsers and hardware? We'd end up splitting the web into two disjoint parts, one for big corporate and sheeple - and one more akin to the web of old comprised by skilled tech people and hobbyists? A rift that could finally bring an end to eternal September? ... Are we sure this proposal a bad thing?

[–] 520@kbin.social 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. It's very bad. Your idea assumes that the corporate side would leave the hobbyist side alone and not go on the offensive in underhanded ways. It is very much in the big tech playbook to go on the offensive in underhanded ways.

[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Also the corporate side would be a toxic hellscape worse than it already is

[–] 520@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Not to mention, the corporations know that their startup competitors capable of blindsiding them come from the hobbyist levels. The threat of competition comes from that side.

[–] LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Ohh this sounds amazing. Let them go all corporate on Edge and Chrome. It'll be fine for corporate IT and even better for IT and the world. I want my open web back, it's been a nosedive to mega corps for far too long.

Yes it’s a bad thing.

[–] Ultra980@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Like ploum wrote ("splitting the web" on https://ploum.net)