Comment on Stop the datacenters
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week agoWhy do they need all that when most things can be done on a simple arm SBC? Most “online resources” dont need to exist to begin with. We dont need 30,000,000 AI generated articles. We don’t need 7,000 different social media sites. We don’t need tracking cookies, advertising, or any other of the stupid bullshit that came with Web 2.0. We were doing fine before corpo shills ruined the internet. ActivityPub is a perfect example of how the internet SHOULD be. A single user instance costs almost nothing at all to host. If you remove the “profit incentive” the internet would be a lot more efficient.
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
I almost completely agree with you. But this is a capitalism problem and not a datacenter problem you do realize?
Datacenters existed and worked fine before the examples you mentioned existed.
The other problem is that users don’t know what they are doing, and that’s why datacenters are required…
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week ago
The reason users dont know what they are doing is because corporations simplified the computer to such a degree that users do not need to learn anything about them to begin with.
The current implementation of data centers are inheritly capitalistic. They are not there for anything other than profit. There is no reason not to educate people on what they are actually doing when they connect to the internet, other than profit and power.
There is no reason for me to want a data center to exist in its current form. I will continue to be against them being built until we see them being used for good. (lmfao, good luck in this economy)
rabber@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
100%. This started with mass adoption of the smartphone in like 2013. Hot take but I think the world would have been better if we never let “normies” on the internet so easily. But you can’t really put the genie back in the bottle now
Turret3857@infosec.pub 1 week ago
I dont necessarily agree that people shouldnt have been allowed. It would have been better to educate people on what they are using and how it can be used. I will give you credit on missing when data centers were used for something good. Not how I expected this interaction to end but I’ll take it.