Blakerboy777

@Gordon_Freeman

@ThatOneKirbyMain2568 they only work if people care about it, so double edged sword.

@wjrii

@Madbrad200

my experience is eerily similar to yours. Used it a bit in the first few days, popped in on occasion. Deleted my account today. When I first went on, one of the questions I asked was “is this FOSS or privately owned” and got bombarded with that cadre of users explaining why it’s better and safer for it to be owned by one person and that Jake would never make bad decisions like this exact one. At one point a user was being so agressive about how I should just trust Jake that I said I must be talking to his mom.

I also briefly had a Voat account when I thought Reddit was cracking down too much/too arbitrarily, and quickly realized that I was not in good company. I’ve been very optimistic about this Reddit exodus because it really doesn’t have the same ideological bent to it, so the diaspora isn’t just the dregs of reddit.

@palordrolap

@Haus antivax “just asking questions” bullshit has made us all so cagey about asking genuine questions. Really sucks. I hate that so muvh conspiracy bullshit gets spread via asking loaded disingenuous questions.

I know what you’re talking about, basically if the virus mutates the thing that vaccines target, there didn’t seem like a very likely pathway to mutate and remain highly contagious. That’s not necessarily a general vaccine rule, but it applies to the covid 19 spike protein. No idea how this news relates to that and would love to have some really smart person show up and explain it. Maybe Hank Green will do a video on it?

@stopthatgirl7

@rafoix I’m confused about the defense of “they should have closed off the roads”. He drove around a barricade according to the story, so it sounds like it was shut off. Also just kind of weird to say “yes, I intentionally ran into those people, but the cops should a have done a better job of stopping me.” He didn’t negligently hit them, right? It was on purpose? You can try to share some blame when an accident happens and say <I was negligent, but the harm should have been mitigated by other safety measures which also failed>. But it doesn’t work when you’re actually trying to cause harm.

@Gutotito

@Snorf

To be clear, this wasn’t a zygote, which would be a fertilized cell. This was a fetus at week 23, which is later than most abortions are performed without fetal abnormalities. Less than 1% of abortions are performed that late. A fetus may be considered viable around that point as well (this would be on the extreme end though). Many pro-choice people base their justification around fetal viability and don’t necessarily feel great about abortions performed after that much development.

I’m not trying to justify these charges, but let’s steer away front hyperbole. Prior to Dobbs, a state could have restricted access to abortion in this same way. Saying “zygote” implies this could happen to anyone who gets an abortion, which simply isn’t implied by this decision.

@Saganastic

@SCmSTR @bazus1 @SaltySalamander

When I ran into issues with too many people trying to stream at once, I had to upgrade to the most premium subscription which allows 4 simultaneous streams. Whether it was a black letter rule or not, the “more money for more simultaneous streams” policy goes hand in hand with shared accounts. How many households are going to need to simultaneously stream 4 different Netflix streams at the same time? Not to mention other oddities.

1. they just developed the profile transfer feature alongside the password sharing crackdown. Previously, they supposedly didn’t want people in different households to share an account, but had no solution for if you left a household.

2. this gives a strong preference to households over families, which is not how other internet services work. When you send your kid to college, each year they need to make a new shared Netflix account with whichever roommate they have, and even mid-year if their roommates change. They can’t share with their own parents. Imagine if cellphone family plans worked that way?

3. why did they stop advertising that premium plans increase the number of people who can watch simultaneously? When I go to select a plan on Netflix right now, it’s now religsted to a footnote. It used to be a prominent feature. It would seem to me that they are aware how counter-intuitive and misleading it is to advertise the amount of simultaneous streams your allowed when it’s already limited to household members.

@garrettw87

@Aityz @NotTheOnlyGamer @Sephtis@kbin.social

I’m following Midwest.social on mastodon, which is an instance of Lemmy, not mastodon. I give it a 6/10. It’s far from ideal, but you’ll basically come a cross comment chains in your feed. It’s much harder to take in the WHOLE discussion and kind of gage the general sentiment of people on the platform, but it is functional and easy enough to leave your own comment, as well as keep track of specific users replying back and forth. I could definitely see people using a more Twitter-like app as a reddit replacement now that I’ve test driven it myself.

@be_excellent_to_each_other

@Aityz @Ignacio @NotTheOnlyGamer

Judging a platform by its users or vis versa is really shitty unless it’s something truly extreme like Nazi’s. “Do we really want normies who mostly follow celebrities and l brands?” Yes, we do. I’d love to follow Matt Mercer and Wizards of the Coast on here. I’d love to follow my favorite youtubers and politicians and game studios. That probably sounds pretty palatable to many users here, but if my mom follows movie stars, TV networks, and crafting influences because those are her interests, how is that any less legitimate? And is it wrong for me to want the accounts she’s interested in to join the fediverse so we can have a common platform to share things with eachother?

@cyberian_khatru

@zalack @FreeBooteR69 google never “depended” on Android in any real sense. It was developed by a for profit entity that was bought by Google while it was still in its infancy and has always been wholly owned by Google since - the source code is open, but it wasn’t a community project that Google EEE’d, it was a privately owned project that they’ve made all the investment in and done all the work on, except the apps themselves which they assert little to no control over. The same company literally EEE’d a chat protocol with Google Talk so this was just a really oddball example to pick.

@bioemerl

@Roundcat @Ensign_Crab

What does “dies” mean in this circumstance? We already only have 1% of their users. Are we afraid that access toore content here will cause users to leave for Facebook?

To my understanding it’s a somewhat reasonable approach that has its upsides and downsides. I believe Twitter apps were all designed that way back in the day as well.

I pretty much agree with this. If you look at the accounts of the people complaining, how many of them have posts hitting the frontpage? I’m not saying I have any data, I’m just speculating that most people who are power users, whether they use 3rd party apps or not, can recognize how shitty reddit went about this and won’t complain about the protest.

I’ll second this. I really like it. Apple just added the privacy feature of FaceID locking incognito tabs that Edge has had for a long time.