nyamlae

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BDS calls for boycott of Microsoft and Xbox gaming products over alleged Israeli military connections⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, it’s not so simple for gaming. People who don’t already own a gaming PC will need to drop a lot of money to buy one, and then get used to gaming on Linux (which can be janky, as I’m sure you know).

  But, it’s worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Signal and the noise: Why the messaging app is great for privacy but not for war plans.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, variety makes groups more resilient. If Signal were to ever become compromised somehow, people who use other apps like Session will be okay.

  It’s not a zero-sum game, either – people can use Signal and other apps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to do with the societal consequences of how them “valuing their time” impacts people. Nurses refusing to do volunteer nursing has little impact on the overall system of access to healthcare.

  Healthcare is heavily regulated through legislation, and is going to be free or paid or corporate or not corporate largely as a result of the legislation. Nurses can’t just do what they want. People who are concerned about the state of healthcare should therefore change things by targeting legislation, not by targeting nurses.

  Creative work is not like this. Creatives refusing to do do volunteer creative work means that either they will charge for their work, which creates a barrier to access, or they will use (and push others to use) platforms like YouTube and TokTok that make money from ad data.

  The former choice results in class differences in access to art, and the latter choice results in everyone using platforms that have proven themselves to be hostile to minoritized groups and progressive causes. These outcomes aren’t legislated – they are the result of creatives choosing to “value their time”.

  In otherwords, creatives choosing to “value their time” means that they will happily enforce class-based restrictions in access to art, and will happily support conservative corporations and surveillance capitalism.

  And I practice what I preach, too. I have spent hundreds of hours developing free software and making free educational materials for people, donating my labour to support progressive causes and supporting others who do the same. Creatives who insist on charging for their work are a ball and chain on the movements I support. They are leeches and class traitors.

  Creatives should value other people. Fuck their time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, my point specifically relates to creative work. You said in your comment:

  under our current economic model people require money to survive and if they do not get money for doing their creative work they might not be able to continue making that work.

  This is false, basically. They can do other types of work. Creative work can be done without making money for it. Plenty of people have a day job and make creative work in their free time. The same option is not available for most other types of work, such as government, doctors, lawyers, etc. If you try to do these types of jobs outside of the framework of a regulated business, you’ll get the book thrown at you.

  The issue I’m getting at isn’t “are you responsible for the actions you take to make a living”. Rather, I’m getting at the issue of “does creative work require becoming an employee of a capitalist company, thereby siding with its shareholders in having a vested interest in increasing that company’s profits regardless of the societal damage caused?”

  The answer to that question is a resounding “no”. Creatives need to grow a spine and get a day job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re not a leftist unless you have daddies money to support you wasting 100 hours on a 20m video.

  I didn’t say that, though. Clearly it’s not worth engaging with you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube removes 'gender identity' from hate speech policy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not selfish to want to be payed for working on something like a video that in some cases takes hundreds of man hours of work to complete

  Yes, it is, if your desire to get paid causes you to remain on corporate-controlled social media, to the detriment of society.

  Not to mention, plenty of people can and do put hundreds of hours of work into projects that they don’t ask for payment for.

  “Content creators” who get paid through advertisements are class traitors whose interests are aligned with the capitalist class. They will fuck over society to make a buck for themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Friendica UI is terrible, unfortunately. Way too complex.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To expand on your second point in case anyone isn’t sure what you mean:

  Different browsers render webpages slightly differently, because they use different “engines”. The most popular browsers are Chrome or Edge, both of these which use the Blink engine, whereas Firefox uses a different engine called Gecko.

  Web developers want their websites to work for most people, so they develop websites that are optimized to run in Blink, which means they sometimes don’t look as intended on Gecko (Firefox). It’s not Firefox’s fault that developers are doing this – of course developers want to reach the most users possible. There’s nothing wrong with Gecko, either – if it were more popular, then developers would build sites for it instead of for Blink. But, this issue of sites breaking can sometimes turn people off.

  (Conversely, I develop for Firefox first, so sometimes webpages I make don’t render properly in Chrome/Edge. That’s not ideal, but I don’t care much. I think Gecko is the better + more consistent engine, and I’m not interested in chasing mass appeal.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  So you, a normal person, join and instantly when a meme or comment allude to being altruistic, you leave?

  Lol, the lack of self-awareness in your comment is astounding. You immediately jumped to interpreting them in the least charitable way possible, instead of just asking them to clarify like a normal person. You are exactly the type of leftist that pushes a lot of people away from using Lemmy.

  Who needs conservative saboteurs when you have leftists to do their work for them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They asked 2 questions and you just said “yes” 🙃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t agree? Even in big cities, I’ve often seen marketplace posts from people with mutual friends, so I could easily verify their trustworthiness. In other scenarios I can at least check to see if their posting history and/or profile seems legit or if there are any red flags. Having more data helps people decide whether to trust someone, but Craigslist doesn’t allow for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Flohmarkt - a Fediverse replacement for Facebook Marketplace⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least when I used Craigslist, there was no social network element to it, so it was difficult to determine the trustworthiness of any given poster.

  For that reason, I don’t want a Fediverse clone of Craigslist – I want an existing Fediverse platform to add a marketplace. I will not use anonymous marketplaces.