Ditto for 12 yrs. No porn account either. Quit cold turkey.
Ditto for 12 yrs. No porn account either. Quit cold turkey.
What in the actual fuck?
This is like a physical embodiment of Poe’s law.
Xitting, pronounced “shitting”
Who told you western teenagers were too dumb to understand this fact and would fail to include the remedies to their ideology when they rile up against capitalism?
TIL I didn’t know the meaning of normies.
It’s not a word I use but when I saw it first, I thought it meant neurotypical, then after a while I saw it in a more political context and thought it meant centrist. Turns out, it just means mainstream. I think.
What exactly does this word mean?
Right? It’s just that good!
I somehow skipped over Hollow Knight until now. I’m playing that this week, and maybe forever.
The game is dope.
<insert yo mama joke here>
The extreme profit oriented business culture of the US combined with the human nature of bandwagons make these sort of disgusting practices possible.
Corporations are justified, by default, in anything they can do to increase profit, and will do so until there’s enough public backlash to negate the amount of profit that practice makes.
The public backlash is tied to the social momentum the idea has. Because profitability is the default idea to be promoted, you can’t say something like “don’t do this obviously profitable thing because it’s bad for people” unless there’s enough people around you who’ll get on the bandwagon. If suddenly some influential person or a critical number of schmucks say the opposite, then everyone is defending the corporation’s, not only the right, but the duty to be profitable.
It’s an unpleasant way to live, really, but people are creatures of habit and won’t easily go against the culture they grow up in.
I’d say it’s exactly as productive as saying “It’s no big deal if Meta joins the fediverse, It’ll be fiiiiiine”.
We should watch everything very carefully.
Maybe they’re trying to make this urban legend hoax a reality.
Read this. You’ll understand the issue a little better.
I’m not in for the giveaway, I’m just supporting the random select suggestion since you mentioned the inherent problem with upvotes.
You can use something to randomly match users with a game. Maybe you can devise a way to use a random sample generator used to group people for randomized studies.
The problem here isn’t talking to Meta or Meta making a federated platform.
Nobody can prevent Meta from doing that anyway.
The problem is the need to push against the insistence of Meta to keep these meetings off the record. It’s against the entire philosophy of something like not only fediverse but FOSS in general.
If Meta wants good faith, they have to show it first.
Notice that in the email, Kev gives his guidance as to the matter. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you put people first and make a product for the purpose of serving them.
This should be the attitude everyone should have first.
We will accept you as long as you’re bringing value to us, not the other way round, got that Meta?
As long as any dev is taking this approach, Meta included, I’m supporting them. If someone is secretive about their intentions about a public service which is not a for profit endeavor inherently, I’ll have a hard pass too.
Yeah, of course. It was a tongue in cheek comment that didn’t land well.
If the adoption rate continues and quality of life improvements such as efficient mobile apps keep getting made, I think it’s inevitable. But I also think it can be a good thing, especially if the distributed instance culture with semi-independent communities persist. If the culture shifts so much to instances just being nodes into the larger “verse” so to speak, the general experience could shift a lot with it.
In any case, with all the different user experiences available already with Mastodon, kbin, lemmy, Calckey, Pixelfed and Peertube offering vastly different experiences into the same ecosystem, it’ll be a lot more diverse I believe as everyone will find their own comfort zone.
I don’t know how many sinks I have to let in at this point.
As well as higher average IQ, it feels like.
Reddit is full of people who call it an app in conversation.
I thought they were talking about the reddit app but no, they are talking about the site itself as an app because they found it on the app store like they found tiktok
Right? Both the Israeli and Qatari governments suck ass