zarkanian
@zarkanian@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 10 hours ago:
If they were really serious about not being evil, they would’ve formed as a public benefit corporation (which they did not).
- Comment on YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy 10 hours ago:
Those aren’t opinions I would care about in the first place. Somebody thinks you should be watching ads? WTF?
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 days ago:
This is why I gtfo when Elon took over. I knew something like this would happen.
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 days ago:
No, he’ll just issue an executive order that gets rid of term limits. Who’s going to remove him?
- Comment on Despite constitutional limit, Trump says he's seeking a way to serve 3rd presidential term 3 days ago:
Naw, he’s got at least another decade in him. His dad died at 93, and his mom died at 88. And that’s without the medicine they have today. I wouldn’t be surprised if he lived into his 90s.
- Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft. 6 days ago:
You are correct in principle, but Lemmy isn’t on a blockchain. It’s much less permanent.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
In theory, Bluesky is supposed to be immune to that due to it being open source. In practice, I don’t know what that would look like. The architecture seems to be much less decentralized than ActivityPub (which is what Mastodon uses).
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
They just go where the money is, and if that means going to a dictator, that’s what they’ll do.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
But Plushtodon is fren for Blahaj
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
I think fascists idolizing the Roman Empire goes back as far as Mussolini. The fasces, after which fascism is named, was a Roman symbol
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
If you mean somebody, somewhere is footing the bill, then sure, if you torture the definition of “free” enough, then nothing on Earth is free. It is worth pointing out that if you enjoy (for example) Wikipedia, then you should donate if you can, because Wikipedia runs on donations. If you’re just trying to be a pedantic jackass, though, that’s another thing.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
But up until recently, Twitter used the blue checks to verify identity. Bluesky (as far as I know) doesn’t verify anyone’s identity. Instead, your domain name is your verification.
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 1 week ago:
At Meta’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park, Calif., Zuckerberg wore a custom T-shirt with the Latin phrase “aut Zuck aut nihil,” or “all Zuck or all nothing,” as he revealed the first working prototype of Meta’s augmented-reality glasses.
The phrase was a play on “aut Caesar aut nihil,” which means “either a Caesar or nothing,” or more simply “all or nothing.”
Zuckerberg has long been interested in the Roman Empire. He spent his honeymoon in Rome and two of his children, August and Aurelia, are named after emperors Augustus and Marcus Aurelius.
Incidentally, fascists tend to have a hard-on for ancient Rome, but I’m sure that’s just a coincidence.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 1 week ago:
The big problem with web forums was dealing with spam.
Also, one thing this article overlooked is that X is no longer indexed by Google, because you’re required to log in to read most things.
- Comment on "Tesla protesters are planning their “biggest day of action” yet, aiming for 500 demonstrations at Tesla showrooms across the world on March 29th..." 1 week ago:
You know what helps a boycott? Protesting.
- Comment on Digg is about to be rebooted. Thoughts? 3 weeks ago:
In 2025, that’s like saying “Hey, we should go back to Myspace!” Myspace did a complete makeover, too. Does anybody care? No.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 4 weeks ago:
Also tell them why you’re boycotting them. That’s an important step.
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 4 weeks ago:
You’re hired!
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
How is that regulated?
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
Diaspora, too, but I’m not sure how active that project is nowadays.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
Bluesky is more popular because it has VC money behind it.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
That isn’t a conspiracy theory. That was, in fact, the original plan. Jack Dorsey explicitly stated this from the outset. However, due to reasons (Wikipedia doesn’t go into specifics), the project lead decided to make Bluesky independent from Twitter. When Musk bought Twitter, he severed all ties.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
I think you need to curate your feeds better. My experience doesn’t match yours.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
most people won’t want to bother learning what an instance is or what federation means.
What have you seen that convinced you of this? Has this been studied?
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
When you sign up with Bluesky, it gives you the choice to sign up with the big main server or with an auxiliary server. Just like Lemmy does.
The problem is that when Lemmy got hit with a big influx of users, the main server couldn’t handle the load, so they quit accepting new users. This confused and upset a lot of people, because now they had to go shopping for another instance to apply to, and many of the bigger ones weren’t accepting new users, either, because of the same problem. This was a crucial moment for the adoption of the platform, and the infrastructure just wasn’t there to handle it.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 weeks ago:
What does this mean? “Good” how?
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 5 weeks ago:
Nonsense, fellow human! I am sure you—l mean we—have nothing to fear!
- Comment on Robot with 1,000 muscles twitches like human while dangling from ceiling 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people 1 month ago:
Tbh this just sounds like ADHD or something.
No, it’s APD (Auditory Processing Disorder). That’s explained in the article.
- Comment on Reddit plans to lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says | Reddit executives also discussed how they might introduce more ads into the social media platform 1 month ago:
YouTube hasn’t been replaced because adblockers still work.