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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fury at COP28 climate summit after promise to "phase out" fossil fuels is removed from draft deal⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Promise to phase out fossil fuels removed from a non-binding draft agreement.

  Clearly, climate change was actually gonna be solved if they left it in. Whole thing is a giant waste of time like Paris and Copenhagen and everything else before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk launches profane attack on X advertisers⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Elon Musk finally learns the real truth that no one really wants to say: There is no such thing as free speech in the United States.

  If saying an opinion gets you fired from your job, or gets advertisers pulled from your site: guess what, that opinion might as well be banned from being posted.

  Being held at virtual gunpoint from corporations is no different from being held at actual gunpoint from governments. This is why right-wingers complain about bannings, because, well, they have a point. Even left-wingers get hit with this too, as certain Palestine supporters that aren’t careful enough with their wording are finding out.

  I’d rather at least have the government say “To promote social cohesion and understanding, saying X opinion about Y groups of people, and stating Z false information will no longer be allowed”. Don’t get me wrong, that’s still invasive as hell and a horrifying precedent to set, but having to walk on eggshells for fear of virtual lynch mobs that can pop up at will and say “He said X he said X fire him and uproot his life or we will drag you through the mud and make you lose precious consumer money!!!” with little rhyme or reason, never stopping until their existence in society is ruined is not something that a society should support either.

  That is simply vigilante justice via keyboard instead of handgun.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can’t sell EV’s because:

  1: too expensive to buy new 2: if you live anywhere that’s not a big city, or you have a garage, there is basically no electric chargers for you.

  The city I live in (~30k people) has 6 chargers total. None of them are superchargers. Wait times are already a sticking point in the best case, nevermind what the wait times would be if everyone where I’m at had an electric car tomorrow. The whole downtown would maybe gridlock just because of people waiting.

  For comparison, there are probably 2-300 gas pumps around the city. 5 gas stations within 5 minutes of where I am, all with at least 8 pumps, all well used. People are not going to get EV’s unless there is an infrastructure that is equivalent to gas around where they live.

  And that infrastructure is not gonna be fun to get going.

  The average person living in the city can’t really use them with street parking, can’t always guarantee a spot after all, and installing a personal one for yourself all but requires a personal garage, which locks out the people who live in poorer housing.

  Lots of people in my city and I suspect many others live in trailer parks with low/fixed incomes, having just a simple driveway. Where are they gonna get the thousand or two to install a Level 2 charging station? My mom and dad certainly don’t have the money.

  Expecting the EV companies to make the infrastructure with the money they get just from selling EV’s is gonna turn into one gigantic chicken-and-egg problem. The government is going to have to do it, and anyone who’s not living along an interstate can see just how much benefit they are personally getting from it so far… (hint: none)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does it seem like women are more wont to make noise in sexual situations while men don't?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Porn has done it for dozens of years at this point, and it has just become not only an expectation, but just a thing that gets picked up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just about facts: Democrats and Republicans have sharply different attitudes about removing misinformation from social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t have any trust whatsoever for any company, or the government, to be the decider of what counts as “mis/disinformation”.

  Sometimes there are easy layups, like “the Holocaust did not happen” and “Vaccines have 5G chips inside them” which are obviously just wrong and I think most of us would agree not to have…

  But what about “The Holocaust was overblown and the jews should stop whining about it”? I and probably 99% of people would say that’s a stupid opinion, but is that “misinformation”? Should a company be allowed to ban you for saying it?

  How about things like the 13/52 statistic? Should that be removed? What about “42% of all transgenders commit suicide”? That’s used to attack that group a lot, should that be banned as well?

  And, to be honest with you, the Democratic Party is absolutely obsessed with using clinical terms like those mentioned to stifle all discussion and act like they are the only voice on the issue you’re allowed to believe. Republicans freak out about this for good reason.

  It’s always the Democratic side that gets conservative opinions that they think are bad (whether lies or otherwise), boot them off the platform, and then decide to trample all over their new platforms and get them killed off. It’s never just “pRiVaTe CoMpAnY tHeY cAn dO WhAt ThEy WaNt MaKe YoUr oWn WeBsiTE”, it’s “you are not allowed to have a place to speak this anywhere on the internet”. I really, really do not want to embolden that sect more than they already are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla tells extension developers to get ready to finally go mobile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Took long enough. What the hell was the holdup?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Copyright has always traditionally required there to be some sort of direct linkage to the source material, like “This has X character that I own in it” or “This is like X story I made, except Y and Z were changed”.

  Generative AI for the most part doesn’t do that. There is no line to draw from their pictures to the AI’s pictures. The lawsuit that maybe stabs these programs in the back would be a big artist claiming that they used the research LAION training set, knowingly, to create a product that copies their style exactly, and way to make money. Whether that has enough basis in law to work… debatable.

  But “This work it generated violated my copyright” is for sure not the way to get them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t like the concept, stop using the service. It’s that simple.

  But also that annoying, because this model where your ““tip”” becomes a bribe is a cancer upon society that needs to be eliminated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The pirates are back - Anew study from the European Union’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) suggest that online piracy has increased for the first time in years. In fact, piracy rates have bee...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hmm, wonder why. Couldn’t be price increases on everything in existence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Buy a social media company because you know there’s no way you’ll ever make one naturally

  Claim that it’s too full of bots and try to walk out, despite having already signed the deal

  Treat your new employees almost like slaves because apparently sleeping at the office is a reasonable proposition

  Rebrand the social media network for no good reason, tanking value

  Drive advertisers away by changing the algorithm that helped make site so good

  Lose millions in company net worth and become an internet laughing stock

  Have the bright idea to save the company by also making it a banking provider

  ?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT? You should see the people addicted to c.ai, they have them beat by miles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What makes this website resistant to enshitrification?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The people running the instances (currently) don’t run their sites as a business.

  The federated protocol itself makes no difference; lemmy.world is a good 70% of the content and could essentially run this part of the fediverse if it wanted to, as it is close to a monopoly already.

  Thankfully, they aren’t greedy owners. They are fine with it “losing money” and not running ads and such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella admits giving up on Windows Phone and mobile was a mistake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  By the time he was CEO it was already dead. He was right to kill it.

  I have my doubts that a three-horse phone race would have been stable in the first place, as one of those three (Android, iPhone was too established) would have likely fallen out of favor. And then, you all would be complain about monopolistic practices Microsoft would inevitably be doing.

  Google is not a good company, but they have treated Android much better than they could be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$6.2B in profit wasn't enough: Nvidia hikes GeForce Now prices for Canada and Europe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man everybody’s hiking up prices. Where’s the money gonna come from to pay these, though? Considering thanks to inflation a lot of us have to use that money for more important things like… food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blue-Checked, ‘Verified’ Users on X Produce 74 Percent of the Platform’s Most Viral False or Unsubstantiated Claims Relating to the Israel-Hamas War⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  About everyone (including several news sites) have produced false/misleading claims about who launched which rocket and how many were killed and all the other stuff, because this fight is messy, and both sides want to look good.

  How many of those misinformers just copied from another source that’s supposed to be more trusted?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google asks Congress to not ban teens from social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  As if teenagers would actually go on a service that forces them to upload a government ID.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨meet project primrose, adobe’s real-life interactive dress that changes design every second⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say the same thing about posting on Lemmy. Or playing your favorite RPG. Or Starbucks’ newest coffee flavor. Or any number of other comforts.

  This is the “don’t be depressed, people in Africa have it worse” kind of argument.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Did not realize, damn… so that’s zero good decisions I guess. Elon has gotta be the worst owner of any tech company… probably ever, honestly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X drops headlines from articles, as new report details its bleeding ad revenue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, Elon just never stops, does he? He has made one good addition to what was a perfectly good Twitter (Community Notes), and at least what, 30 bad decisions? Has there ever been a CEO as stupid as Elon has been to Twitter over this year? I mean damn, even being outed as a child molester and forced to resign probably wouldn’t have been as bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Uses Bing to Flood the Internet With Racist Images⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Really? We’re doing this again?

  Haven’t we all learned by now that there will always be a part of 4chan that will do something bad purely because they think it’s funny? Just ignore these people. If we don’t give them attention and doom about them, the five people on the site being little contrarians will get bored in a week, and they’ll stop doing their stupid racism garbage.

  Simple as.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, the main problem for popularity’s sake is the un-diverse userbase.

  It’s a bunch of techy redditors, the same way that many other services that splinter off from reddit are. Almost all the communities are literal clones of reddit ones. So for someone who wants a similar style of place and doesn’t have a hatred of reddit corporate built-in, why would they not go to reddit, which has the same kind of userbase but with 100x the users?

  Honestly, other than “Open Source Master Race!!!111!!!111”, there isn’t any reason, especially not one that the average person will care about.

  Another one, and I fucking HATE saying this, not enough zoomers dragging their friends along. This place feels like a place for the 30-something instead of the 20-something. Which isn’t bad, of course, but in terms of network effect power it is, because peer pressure is huge for social media.

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  But, separate from all that, do we actually want it to be that kind of popular? Maybe we should stay under the radar for the most part. Keep it from becoming stale and condescending like lots of Redditors can be. Keep the advertisers from sinking claws in. Maybe that’ll be better for the site as a while than needing ads to support a service 100x the size.