Yep spot on. I get that people have their own preferences and tolerances, but that's what it is, thier own, it feels pretty entitled to think everyone else should be affected when you can just block communities and people yourself
Whenever I see these threads pop up I always look for this comment. People need learn to block communities and users that you're not keen on, not reach for the de-federation ban-hammer because you personally don't want to see the content.
There's an argument to be made about instances made 100% in bad faith, or where the content is overwhelming stacked, but for most of these situations people need to take care of this themselves
Also talking about GIMP, plenty of people have said "there's heaps of Photoshop alternatives" yet legit everything on Ubuntu I've has been buggy AF and feature poor. Like I get that FOSS software is hit and miss but this has been really rough
Old mate can't stop copping Ls, first being forced to buy Twitter and then trying to force Twitters old legal council to pay back the money they were paid. These weird tweets are just the next step in his sad saga
Was pretty supprised to find out that you now need to log in to an account to even do a basic TeamViewer session. It legit feels like every time I'm forced to used it to help out old people the UI is getting more bloated
I've been splitting my old Reddit time across multiple sites and projects now. I'm pretty keen on watching the content at squabbles, they've generally got a really positive environment and nice pictures.
Also been working on improving kbin since it's open source, great to get some mobile centric changes to make everyone's experience a little better 🦙
Pushshift was an API service that connected with Reddit to pull information about posts, users and other data. For example you used to be able to use unddit to input a URL and get a full listing of a comment thread, showing all comments that have been purged.
This was a super handy service that Reddit all of a sudden cut off with only 1-2 months of notice. Moderators used to use this service extensively to help them moderate and actual data scientist used to integrate with it to pull out a heap of data.
The best part about pushshift was that you could take a permalink (e.g. a 5000+ point upvoted deleted comment) and see if it actually violated the rules of the subreddit OR if the admins were just being shitcunts.
I ended up pasting a concise message replacing all my comments, pointing out how dogshit Reddit has been and that I'd rather go somewhere else in the fediverse. Hopefully as the things get now dire, more people will make the move across
A race to the bottom with who can come up with the next dogshit idea on how to ruin the internet and make things actively worse for the people who use it
Surprising, the Google homepage on Android (swipe right) seems to have some pretty decent news recently. I'm unsure if that's because after a decade and a half all the data I've given them finally has yielded actually good results or if they've changed the way it works.
Yep spot on. I get that people have their own preferences and tolerances, but that's what it is, thier own, it feels pretty entitled to think everyone else should be affected when you can just block communities and people yourself