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Cake day: December 19th, 2024

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  • How is the Discord way anti-consumer? Here, let me walk through to you the steps:

    I go to Subscriptions on the app, I see my subscriptions now, I see a button that says Cancel. I click it, a window pops up that says I can Continue or Nevermind. Right now I’d Continue but I don’t want to because I’m on a month trial, but I do imagine that by clicking Continue, it’ll end things with a notification that tells me I’ve unsubscribed.

    How is that process anti-consumer? It’s stupid easy to understand. I think you’re just arguing for the sake of arguing.




  • People and I’ve been beaten over the head with it too, were marketed to believe that to make it successfully in life is to go with tech. The problem is that most of the people didn’t begin with the chops to even understand tech to begin with and yet they try. That’s why you see these people working in tech when they shouldn’t be. Some are in tech because they got the obvious leg-up, word in about them through a friend which is common. And usually they’re managing departments or sectors of tech that they have absolutely no grasp of but they’re there for the gravy train of money because working in tech is where some big money is.


  • I truly believe that innovating the internet is really running in place. Might be just me but I can’t think of anything we can really do, to ‘evolve’ it. We’re doing everything that we’ve been doing in the past three decades, but it’s only just been more accessible and the speeds faster (depending where you are). But we’re not actually moving the needle when it comes to progressing the internet as a whole.

    And I see it this way as to why. We’ve experienced two big booms in Web 1.0 and Web 2.0, with Web 1.0 being what some consider the Wild West of the internet. Web 2.0 is basically the great social media bubble that has blossomed for years. We’re not doing anything new or different now than we did back in 2007. Every new social media platform that comes out is recycling the exact same things as many before it presented. I truly think we stopped evolving the internet the day we managed to get messengers onto phones when phones were developing and it’s only been perfected by the age of the first wave of smartphones.

    So I just think with all of this AI stuff, this “Web 3.0” I’ve been hearing about for a few years now, the Metaverse .etc are all just gimmicks. Gimmicks of shitty ideas coming from the wrong people that should be practicing said ideas, all saying that they’re innovating the internet when all that they’re doing is just taking advantage of the internet for themselves. All within political theater of course.


  • Lemmy wasn’t made with the promise of higher-end discussions or intellectual thought. Rather, the Fediverse wasn’t constructed with that in mind. It was made as an alternative to escape the grand enshittification that has poisoned the wells of Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and other overly-centralized social media platforms.

    So I think you’re really aiming too high for what you seek on here. I’ve noted and seen very clear similar behavior on some parts of the Fediverse as I would on Reddit. You really can’t escape it because it’s not strictly a social media platform thing. That’s what many people continue to fail in realizing. It does not matter where you go, because you will find groups of no-life assholes with nothing better to do than to instigate fights and shit on everyone’s parade for their amusement. Along with other bullshit they do like victimizing themselves and crying to mods with made-up stories to get you banned.

    It’s an internet thing and the internet in it’s entirety is bigger than any social media platform because those social media platforms are simply just parts of the bigger picture. So my point is, is that anyone can be an asshole, but there are always going to be dedicated assholes who live that kind of lifestyle everywhere you go. Going from Social Media Platform A to Social Media Platform B or to Social Media Platform C will not fix that. To be quite frank with you, I find it easier to stick with one community so that way you don’t have to deal with the chances of dealing with the potential assholes who’re going to be under different names.

    And it also depends on how well moderated a community is. Keep this in mind.




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    Yeah I mean, it’s silly as shit.

    Both Epic and Valve are like multi-billionaires in the gaming industry. So it’s silly to me that people are rah-rah’ing for one billionaire over another billionaire. And please spare me the launcher comparisons, I know Steam is like feature rich, though it is because of it’s stupid social features and built-in Chromium browser that it had to cut off old OS support.

    I don’t care for any of that shit, game is a game.





  • I am not one of those children that clutches their pearls for family members to give what they busted their ass for away for free. My father just paid off the mortgage of his home. It is his.

    And he paid it for over 25 years as people like us lived in and left it. It is just unearned entitlement for any of us to come to him, demanding or expecting something he earned through hard work.

    And it is something generations after his wont understand. You try being 66 years old and enduring the grind for so long to finally have something like a home to yourself. And not have a thought of reluctance of just giving it away.

    It is ironic considering how much of a clutch todays generations have with their phones. Does anyone think they are the kind to give a home away when it is paid off? You tell me.








  • Shopping at Wal-Mart for example for clothes is one of the most underwhelming experiences I ever get. They did away with Fruit of the Loom shorts and even their cotton-branded shorts with AthleticWorks. Now there’s too many jersey sports like shorts and that’s all that they ever have. On top of that, all that they got for clothes is corporate branded shit and I don’t want to be a walking billboard for corporate. As well as those shirts with dumb sayings on them to try and appeal with people.

    Shopping online is obviously better.