danielton @ danielton @lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz

I go by the same username on world and frozeninferno.

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News for nerds. Stuff that matters.

So... what if a news article links to a toot or Lemmy post? They're most likely to link to the instance that the post was submitted from, and most people aren't going to understand that they have to go search for the post from their home instance if they want to like, vote, reply, or retoot. Email made sense to people because it is basically all direct messaging, but public linking from articles and such is going to be difficult.

Nothing will ever get done in this political climate.

I have Mastodon, and I only know one artist on there. The majority of them are still on Twitter even though they hate it.

About 10 years ago, Angelo Sotira ($spyed) fired one of the other co-founders, Spot, and started pitting paying users against non-paying users. Free users had a marker on their profile saying "Needs Premium Membership." The site also marked whether you were a paying or free user everywhere. Sound familiar?

They drew more controversy in 2018 when they hired this marketing firm to come up with a lackluster new logo everybody hated. Because, you know, it's not like they had a bunch of artists using the site or anything.

Unfortunately, it's still where the majority of the art community resides after the enshittification of deviantART. Fortunately, I have other ways of staying in touch with the "best of the best" among my artist friends now, but there are still many holdouts.

And none of this will ever get fixed in the current US political climate. MAGA has taken over the Republican party, and Democrats can do whatever the fuck they want because people will defend them with "Doesn't matter because Trump exists."

The MAGA cult wants us to return to Biblical times and values, while Democrats pretend to be outraged at Republicans while they're doing the same damn shit (like racism and bailing out the rich).

Every other developed country has universal healthcare, while the best we could do is impose a tax on people who can't afford health insurance.

People are too afraid to call out their own side's bullshit.

We need to do better than this.

We just want you to know that arrogance isn't strictly an American problem.

Ever seen Europeans on the Internet act like the way their country or continent does things is the only correct way, and North America is too stupid to realize it?

Wow, what an update! Thank you! Admittedly, I haven't used Mlem as my main, but this update might change that.

I think it needs more jpeg

Seriously. Unless they get fined at least a billion, it still made them a profit.

Absolutely. I'm not buying the "fair and square" argument. Firefox won over IE fair and square, by being better in every way, but that didn't last long enough.

Ever try using Google's sites in Firefox or Safari? Most people use Google services and started using Chrome because of Google hounding them to switch. Hell, every major site says to just use Chrome now, and if a real Chrome ever comes out for iPhone, people will just download Chrome because it's what they use on their computer.

Sincerely, a frustrated Firefox and Safari user

Pretty much, but I have no idea who the tip is going to in that case. Last time it happened to me, there was no button to not leave a tip. The options were 20%, 25%, 30%, and Custom, with 25% as the default. I had to hit Custom and type 0.00.

And the fact that Chrome has a virtual monopoly on the browser market isn't going to help them either. Other than Firefox and Safari, every other browser is Chrome, and most web devs only test on Chrome.

It's IE all over again, and I'm a bit scared that iOS's app store restrictions are the only thing stopping Chrome from being a complete monopoly.

Tipping culture and living wage are not the same thing at all. It's the owner's responsibility to pay a living wage.

Plenty of places, even in retail and food service, pay a living wage without resorting to using the registers to beg.

And this, folks, is why tipping culture continues to get worse.

Yeah, it's happened to me a couple of times.

I worked in food service and retail for a long time, not tipped. The idea that I have to leave a tip for putting my stuff in a bag and handing it to me is ludicrous to me. Employers can pay less because they can tell new hires they get tips.

Business owners need to pay their damn employees and stop using the registers to beg customers for more money.