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Erica @erica8/4/2023, 3:51 PM

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Johnnemann @johnnemann8/4/2023, 6:52 AM

I just opened my Google drive and was like "why are these files all over the place? Why aren't these folders nested any more?" and after a moment clicking around I realized that Google Drive has instituted an algorithmic view of my stuff. Not "here's your files where you left them" but "here's some files we think you might like!"

Is nothing sacred

#google drive #google drive sucks #google sucks #complaining #computers were a mistake

Chris Franklin @Campster8/4/2023, 7:09 AM

I know Twitter is very publicly showing its ass and is ruining its reputation for the one thing it did and now fails to do but like

It really must be noted that Google has been tanking its reputation in the 30 different things it had been perceived to do well. It is no longer a good email client. It is no longer a good search engine. Chrome is now considered toxic and bad next to Firefox. They killed their RSS reader. Docs is loaded with problems. Between Stadia and various projects before it, it is no longer a place to assume they will build a well supported platform you can release software on. YouTube continues to integrate Shorts in the most awkward, ham-fisted way, and that's ignoring the myriad problems it has for creators and viewers alike.

Like, Musk's ass-showing spectacle of a disaster might be more glamorously embarassing, but Google's collective failure on and enshittification of like 80% of their business ventures is undeniably just as terrible.

nat @itsnatclayton8/4/2023, 8:27 AM

It's tremendous the degree to which the internet feels like it's just breaking apart. Twitter is ultimately small beans. It's a website with some people on it. But every other interaction I have for work, for communication, for play, is just slowly degrading at the altar of infinite growth.

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@mumil8/4/2023, 7:50 AM

My brow furrowed deeply as I read this. I think it might be stuck

Deepshock @deepshock8/4/2023, 11:24 AM

That doesn't even make sense for the usual bullshit reasons associated with algorithmic sorting! "Engagement" is irrelevant with regard to one's own files! This is pure cult behaviour where folks believe the algorithm can never fail, it can only be failed.

JP @vectorpoem8/4/2023, 2:25 PM

next year they'll remove the "last modified" column.

Johnnemann @johnnemann8/4/2023, 2:37 PM

I was already stymied earlier this year by the inability to sort by size - they've made the whole flow of removing large files more difficult in order to increase the incidence of purchasing more storage

Froey @froey8/4/2023, 2:58 PM

"Hey, our users are telling us to go fuck ourselves for ruining another thing."
"Maybe we should listen to their feedback and give them what they want?"
"You're right, let's incorporate algorithms and AI into everything, then charge more."

jcd @jcd8/13/2023, 1:44 PM

Can't hit performance review requirements (cascaded down the management hierarchy) to integrate generative AI into everything if you don't integrate generative AI into everything.

Rocket Ship @redcanoli8/4/2023, 4:05 PM

I just noticed this today too! I needed to reorganize my DND world building notes and can find /nothing/ without the specific search term. :eggbug-classic:

@Cyborg7718/4/2023, 6:36 PM

I know you probably already found it, but just in case, the folder view is still there under "My Drive" on the left, and you can change the default landing page in the settings. I agree this is dumb, but it's just as dumb when Windows and MacOS do it. Google isn't breaking new ground with this particular feature.

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JP @vectorpoem8/4/2023, 2:23 PM

musk's fall is pure bro self destruction, a trust fund kid torching his own limited edition ferrari for no reason. google's self destruction is like MS's during the ballmer era: corporate dysfunction settling in bone-deep like a kind of permanent cognitive impairment, a rich guy in a logo knit and khakis reaching for his electric toothbrush, accidentally grabbing a power drill instead and soberly, unhesitatingly, using it anyway.

vivian lim ⭐@viv8/4/2023, 10:11 PM

damn, this hits hard

Caro @caro8/4/2023, 5:51 PM

i thought firefox was the good chrome alternative

Fluffies🐾 & ☉∇ ΘΔ Ⓥ @Fluffies8/9/2023, 6:26 PM

ah, we read it as "when you put chrome next to firefox, chrome comes out looking badly".

Caro @caro8/9/2023, 7:02 PM

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

@Tenderizer1710/23/2023, 1:28 PM

I was gonna say the same thing. Thank god for Fluffies putting my mind at ease. If nothing else I don't want to use Chromium that's (presumably) controlled by google and that leaves only Firefox.

GLITTERING CAMILLE @ROZOROSSO8/4/2023, 8:29 PM

of the many google Ls both recent and gradual, the most shocking to me is still 'created .mov and .zip tlds which are a phisher's wet dream.' like they keep doing things that make me go 'buddy I thought you KNEW about this stuff'

@elena8/10/2023, 8:46 AM

and then they sold their domain business immediately after doing that

Plum @plumpan8/10/2023, 9:10 PM

And yet, even when viable alternatives exist, people continue to use the google stuff. That's the scary part to me.

There is, obviously, no good alternative to youtube at the moment.

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Remi Erin Autor the remeranAuthor @remeranAuthor8/4/2023, 4:50 PM

What a society might need to industrialize is completely different from what one needs to live well. We aren't capable of asking when it's time to say something is good enough and canonize it. We have to improve improved improve. But when something is good already to the point where no more improvements are necessary how do we improve anymore? The same drive to grow and make things better fester into a disorder.