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  • Okay? That's not at all the point of the discussion, though, so why bring it up?

    Did you read the article? Or even the very first paragraph?

    Instagram was auto-translating user bios that included “Palestinian” and an Arabic phrase that means “praise be to God” to say “Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom,” which the platform says it’s very sorry for.

    Tell me how your comments are at all relevant.

  • You were the one who started off weirdly aggressive by likening nationality and religious belief to terrorism. What did you expect to happen with such a blanket statement like that?

  • I don't think the people buying Teslas are doing so because they believe them to be an economically viable option. They're buying Teslas for the brand recognition/design more than anything.

  • Dang, what happened? Arms get tired from carrying that goalpost so far?

  • This isn't about Elon. While it's about one of his companies, Elon has little to nothing to do with this story.

  • What’s with the quotes around the word Autism?

    Probably because "autism" is burying the lede. Autism, on its own, typically doesn't cause low IQ. It sounds like he had some other developmental disorders at play that may have had more significance toward the situation than just autism.

  • I'm not sure what the ideal solution would look like, but I imagine that we're going to be seeing a lot more of this across the board for all "free" platforms.

    Ads suck. They're a privacy/security risk in many cases. A lot of them are straight-up fraudulent, and there's little that the ad servers will do to correct these issues. But also, a vast majority of users will never pay for these services. And video platforms are prohibitively expensive for any other company to maintain.

    PeerTube is great, in theory, but for the use-case that most people have in mind when they consider a video platform, it's not exactly filling in the voids that YouTube would leave if they were to close down or otherwise restrict access to their platform.

    For me, there's a lot of creators that I watch who would not be able to continue producing the content that I enjoy if not for YouTube and their ad revenue systems. They could move to paid platforms, but would likely end up losing tons of money in the process, and would possibly have to discontinue content creation altogether as it would no longer be sustainable.

    I pay for YT Premium so that I can have an ad-free experience while still supporting the channels I watch, which already makes me an outlier. But there is no way that I'd be able to afford to support even a quarter of the creators whose content I love if they were all to move to other platforms. This is a tough situation for everybody involved, and there's no clear better solution than "let the ad mongers continue mongering ads".

  • That's... not what "underserved" means lmfao

    Besides, you were using that term in reference to the content, not the instance.

  • as if they’re trying to “disguise” themselves to fit into society

    Isn't that what you're doing by referring to this as an "underserved niche"? You're talking about it as if it's a knitting community or something.

    I think "underaged niche" is more fitting here.

  • PeerTube is great if you like low-quality DVD rips and hour-long discussions on Linux.

    At least, that's all I seem to ever find.

  • Nope. Xbox One/Series, PS4/PS5, and Switch. Those graphics are definitely rough, though.

  • That friend's name? Albert Einstein.

  • Or you could just post piracy-related things in a piracy-focused community. This isn't Facebook, go post your drama there.

  • This thread is unnecessary bullying. If you don't like his take, then downvote him and move on with your life. Posting his username and comment in another community/instance is just poor taste and makes you seem a bit like a crybaby.

  • Common pirate mentality: anyone who has something I want doesn't deserve to have it.

  • The devs aren't the ones making these decisions. That's like chewing out a customer support rep because their CEO did something you didn't like. Aim your anger more carefully.

  • I had free Nitro for a few years because I was a partner. Only ever used it for making my username end in #0001. Nothing else it offers is really that useful, imo. Especially for the price.