Have you tried it though? I find that it’s not lootbox-like in any way, although to some extent I suppose it depends on who you follow.

I do not accept “infinite scroll” as shorthand for all that bullshit. I don’t like infinite scroll much myself, for other reasons, but this is the Fediverse. There are plenty of people around here looking at pages containing nothing but things in chronological order posted by people they chose to follow, and choosing to load more by scrolling down.

How the scrollbar works says nothing about what’s on the page. You could make similar claims about web pages in general — you never really know if you’ll get what you were looking for. If anything, having to click “next” to try again would make it more like a loot box. But still not much like a loot box, usually.

No.

I download albums (through piracy or not) and add them to my modest mp3 collection the same way I used to buy CDs — once in a while when it seems like a good idea. If there’s an album I don’t think is worth listening to again, I delete it.

Not at present, but I have spent time living in the stereotypical suburbs where nobody walks anywhere.

The only day of the year children are allowed to go on foot beyond the end of their home driveway.

I’m willing to give it a try at least once if I get to haggle with the cashierbot over the price of my cheeseburger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m31KxsBb78U

I love that there are still people learning that for the first time. Keep it going.

If we suppose that belief in Hell does some good for some people, what about belief in the Easter Bunny for an alternative? We could train everyone to know that the Easter Bunny exists in Heaven, takes a deep personal interest in every one of our lives, is always watching, and wants us to be good? Those who displease the Bunny will have bad luck until they repent. It might just work, if we’ve ruled out humanistic approaches to morality for some unstated reason.

Can the EU really save Canada from itself? I sure hope somebody can.

In my feed people who post stuff every hour get blocked or unfollowed, unless it’s really good stuff.

I expect reddit will roll it out slowly and stop if they’re losing too many users. If they actually follow through and impose age “verification” on everyone it’ll be a bigger exodus than anything seen before — so they probably won’t.

I assume that scheme is part of a long-term effort from Google to reinforce the idea that nobody but them should be allowed to have root on their phones, and is therefore working as intended.

Major nation-states remain amazingly eager to gear up for World War 3, finds every international arms dealer.

You’d think that “no AI” would be an easy feature to implement, and it’s much in demand. Strange that it seems to be beyond the abilities of so many software developers.

What do you mean? Everyone knows that protein comes from salamanders.

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Your first ever download?

Perhaps she didn’t make it clear enough that the idea was “send them back to where they belong, unless that happens to be Italy in which case send them somewhere else.”