Bebo@discuss.tchncs.de to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoSuper Apps Are Terrible for People—and Great for Companieswww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technews
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Apps that offer to “do it all” will subject users to even more exploitation and surveillance, while large tech companies profit.
minus-squaredjango@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up24·1 year agoEmacs does it all and is actually pretty nice though.
minus-squareTheEntity@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 year agoEmacs 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.
minus-squareastraeus@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoOh you certainly can, does that mean you should?
minus-squaredjango@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoLooks like it: https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el I haven’t tried it though.
minus-squareThrashy@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoYou trying to start a war, or what?
Emacs does it all and is actually pretty nice though.
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.
The good old Unix philosophy.
Can I read Lemmy in Emacs?
Oh you certainly can, does that mean you should?
Looks like it: https://codeberg.org/martianh/lem.el I haven’t tried it though.
You trying to start a war, or what?