For now I can

It’s the foundational concept of lemmy, and the main protection against enshitification.

But what do we see from that legacy now?

It bothers me so much. I wanted to pay for a friend’s ticket to visit us. By train, it was $200, a 16hr trip, of which 2/3rds was by bus thanks to Amtrack’s garbage infrastructure/system.

By plane for the same trip, it was a $180, 2hr direct flight.

It’s so god damn ass backwards. Trains produce a fraction of the emissions of planes, so why are we ok with trains being uncompetitive?

Um, acktually they’re government drones, not plants.

They actively kill competition for a reason.

I’d rather take garbage addresses instead of the current trend of enshitification.

To be fair, there is a fun, consenting way to do so. Anon’s way ain’t it though.

Even that might be going a bit short. In the long run it’s probably better to switch to piped, freetuhe, invidous, etc.

They’re rolling it out only for certain users.