• @AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml
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    93 years ago

    Just wait until they remove the option to disable it and give some corporate speak excuse that they’re reducing confusion for users.

    • Travis Skaalgard
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      53 years ago

      That’s how it always goes with all proprietary software. “Why are you complaining, you can turn it off!” quickly becomes “We got rid of that option because ‘nobody’ used it! Get used to it!” I saw this pattern in so many places over the late 2000s and 2010s that it turned a die-hard Windows user (me) into a FOSShead.

  • @rish@lemmy.ml
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    43 years ago

    And they somehow figured out how to update the old design too. They couldn’t add any useful feature because of the legacy code but this goes live everywhere at once.

    • DessalinesOP
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      193 years ago

      It’s a privacy violation to turn this on by default, especially opens up people to stalking and harrassment.

      • @someone@lemmy.ml
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        -193 years ago

        Removing this dot wouldn’t make their lives any harder. A harasser can just send you nasty messages whether you are online or not. In which case you can block them. It’s extra useless for a stalker, Reddit still has RSS remember?

        • DessalinesOP
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          203 years ago

          The vast majority of people don’t know about or use RSS, they use new reddit, and the indicator shows up to your name and comment when you’re online now. So this is going to encourage ppl to harass others because they can see that they’re online.

          • @someone@lemmy.ml
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            -133 years ago

            You don’t deal with this by taking away features from people mate. You deal with this with A) Effective moderation B) Decentralization or C) Being picky about who you let in It’s just a dot, it won’t change anything. It takes more to remove a dot from profiles to deter stalkers and harassers. Harassers will just assume you are always online, and stalkers will figure out when you are online and when you are not by looking at your posts, comments and upvote/downvote history.

              • @someone@lemmy.ml
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                -53 years ago

                Nothing, it’s just a damn dot. It’s worthless. I’m compeletely indifferent about it. There are a lot of things to hate on Reddit privacy wise, but this dot isn’t one of these things.