Technology

37727 readers

609 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

165

Super Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companies (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

35 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Apps that offer to "do it all" will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Emacs does it all and is actually pretty nice though.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Emacs is more like a runtime for many smaller programs doing all these things, with common way for them to talk to each other. It's closer to Java than to Facebook.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The good old Unix philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can I read Lemmy in Emacs?

[–] astraeus 4 points 1 year ago

Oh you certainly can, does that mean you should?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Looks like it: https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el I haven't tried it though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You trying to start a war, or what?