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- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
They’d get banned for spam.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 1 month ago:
I feel like Lemmy also has a problem with corporate troll farms.
Reddit is far worse though with bots and establishment troll farm shill accounts.
- Comment on SanDisk introduces the first 8TB SD and 4TB microSD cards - Liliputing 2 months ago:
The only things that I can fill it up with are video games and video recordings. Hoarding downloaded files can also build up over time.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I have mixed feelings. “Because I said so” can get compliance in high school, but that’s mostly it. It’s not going to be that effective. At the same time, a lot of this overly permissive parenting seems like a reaction by people who are upset about being told no as kids and that will lead to problems, especially once they get into places that don’t care about constantly trying to have a debate back and fourth.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
The “critical mass of users” is the essential part. People want to participate where there are already other people.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
A lot of the old forum applications still exist. A lot of old school forums are actually still around. The problem with old school forums compared to Reddit or Lemmy is that it’s just so much easier to get people to join a subreddit or a Lemmy community. If someone discovers a subreddit, all they need to do is go there and start posting. Creating a new account usually isn’t that hard but it’s still a considerable hurdle for someone who is considering joining.
Old school forums are simply too decentralized. It’s a lot easier to get reddit.com to come up in search results then it is for some relatively obscure forum.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
I’m going to try setting up an instance but one issue with it that I see is that instance owners will be the only permitted uploaders for most instances since storage and bandwidth is a huge issue when it comes to video hosting platforms.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
Odysee is is one of the few alternative platforms with a decent left wing audience. The only other majority progressive platforms are Mastodon and Lemmy, though Lemmy has a lot of neo-progressive tankies and angry conservative tankies.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
It’s a shame because the thing that kills alternative platforms is getting flooded with racists to the point that they drive everyone else out.
A lot of “free speech” platforms box themselves into a corner by declaring themselves “free speech” platforms while intending that to mean they won’t ban users for mild wrongthink, but then white supremacists show up, and if they get banned then they start causing a massive shitstorm over the fact that the platform isn’t truly supporting free speech. Then they drive out all the normal people who don’t want to be associated with them and the platform is forced to shutdown.
Then you have morons like Tim Pool who will endlessly attack “free speech” platforms if they ban white supremacists.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
I have watched super progressive content on Youtube but also watched conservative content as well. It’s possible there are a lot of progressives who also watch content from the other side so the algorithm pushes it.
- Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads 3 months ago:
Unfortunately that’s one of the problems with a lot of alternative platforms.
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 months ago:
When I use Windows 11, I use a second local non admin account.
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 months ago:
Louis Rossman is a far right extremist who promotes unfounded conspiracy theories against technical corporations.
I’m wondering how many people won’t know if that’s serious or not.
- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 months ago:
I finally installed Linux Mint along with Windows 11.
- Comment on Neo-Nazis Are All-In on AI 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t say that Gab used to be an exclusively neo Nazi site, but now that Twitter allows standard conservative discussions, all the normal people probably left Gab for Twitter and now Gab is probably more of a Nazi shithole.
I have seen openly Jewish people on Gab but you couldn’t go 10 posts without finding something blatantly racist.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
I agree, but the real problem with ebikes over light motorcycles is the range. Trying to get an ebike with decent speed and range costs a fortune and the range and speed is still incredibly limited for long trips.
You also can’t ride them on the road where I live, a point that I’ve been trying to get through to one of my roommates.
- Comment on Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption 6 months ago:
There’s also a huge about of FUD on EVs being able to be remotely controlled or disabled. The same can be done with gas vehicles that have computers in them and EVs can be made dumb with only the electronics needed for them to function.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
If this is how Youtube advertised, I wouldn’t block the ads. I refuse to sit through ads when I’m searching through videos and I don’t even know if the video is the one I want to watch. It’s going to take a three minute search into a 10 minute search.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
This is what Louis Rossman said. Youtube is completely in their right to kick people off for blocking ads. At the same time, it’s also not a pissing match that’s worth getting heavily invested in, because ultimately Youtube is going to lose unless they can start coercing people into installing proprietary apps which they already have for mobile devices.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 6 months ago:
This is what Louis Rossman said. Youtube is completely in their right to kick people off for blocking ads. At the same time, it’s also not a pissing match that’s worth getting heavily invested in, because ultimately Youtube is going to lose unless they can start coercing people into installing proprietary apps which they already have for mobile devices.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 8 months ago:
Tim Pool is blaming the Russians.
If they’re actually behind it: Image
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram are currently down. 8 months ago:
Based
- Comment on Microsoft Flight Simulator x Dune - Official Launch Trailer 8 months ago:
It’s a licencing issue. The manufacturers won’t allow Microsoft to use the real names and trademarks if the planes are shown destroyed.
- Comment on ChatGPT's new AI store is struggling to keep a lid on all the AI girlfriends 9 months ago:
Because it drives people even deeper into self destructive incel behaviors.
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 9 months ago:
quoting MLK
Wow smh far right extremist /s
- Comment on Women STEM students up to twice as likely as non-STEM students to have experienced sexism 9 months ago:
r/transgendercirclejerk incoming
- Comment on This console generation seems skippable 10 months ago:
PC gaming isn’t that expensive right now anyway, depending on the level of performance that you want. I have a computer presumably without a dedicated graphics processor that runs Fallout 4 well. It will run Fallout 3 at consistent 60 fps at 720p.
Depending on how new the game is and whether or not you turn down the graphics, it’s not that expensive to get a gaming PC.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 11 months ago:
Technically, but it’s not likely. They’d probably do more damage to their reputation then it would be worth.
- Comment on Cable lobby and Republicans fight proposed ban on early termination fees / Customers should be allowed to cancel cable TV without penalty, Democrats say 11 months ago:
If you feel comfortable giving your SSN to privacy.com, you can just give them a privacy.com credit card number and then cancel whenever you want.
You could probably do the same thing with a reloadable prepaid card and then just withdraw all the money whenever you want to stop paying.
- Comment on Google Reveals Gemini, rival to GPT-4 11 months ago:
Google doesn’t want anyone using an alternative to the Web. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was intentional.
