deweydecibel @ deweydecibel @lemmy.world

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That was literally always the case, and frankly it was not nearly as big a problem as people made it out to be.

Also, the front page is basically broken, so the traffic on the site isn't being directed to content in the same way it used to be.

Basically, the site was very different when "Hot" was the way most people experienced the front page.

Now it's... whatever fucking curated bullshit and "Best" which is all just terrible.

They also painted a gigantic red target on their back with that.

The legal arguments against piracy are related to loss of potential income, but that's hard to prove.

Except when you accept donations and they can point to it directly. When the donations spiked around the time of the Tears of the Kingdom leak, Nintendo's lawyers probably got very excited.

I'm not saying the devs for emulators can't or should never accept donations, but you have got to be smarter about this.

So we send them back when they get over.

The idea isn't to let them in. It's to avoid unnecessary death, because they're going to try regardless.

causing additional injury, death, or at minimum financial burden.

And trauma. Some of don't like killing things, even accidentally.

Thank you for the update.

Recently I downloaded iTunes again because I'm trying to consolidate my music library/listening history from all my old services and get them on Jellyfin.

And...I'd honestly forgotten how legitimately good a piece of software iTunes is. Not perfect, obviously, but I'd forgotten what it was like to have sophisticated music management tools. Just the sheer amount of options and tools to sort and manage the list, to be able to edit the properties, etc.

Then you look at modern streaming apps and it's all just...terrible. The user is completely neutered. You can't do even half as much with them. Things are just straight up hidden or don't exist anymore, you have very few methods of controlling how things are organized or sorted, etc.

"Modern" design principles seem to be "you can just deal with using the app the way we think you should, we won't give you the ability to make it your own".

That's what made Google Play Music so good: it was that beautiful sweet spot between the useful tool of iTunes-esc music management and the convenience of the streaming services. I didn't feel like my hands were tied when using it like I do with Spotify.

They don't care about his overall popularity, they only care about his popularity with their viewing demographic, and he's as popular with that demo as he's ever been. More so, honestly.

Remember Trump won more votes in 2020 than 2016, and his popular vote percentage rose by 0.7%. The fact he still had that much after 4 years of his shit tells you everything you need to know about these voters.

Problem is the entire concept of a site like reddit being "for profit" in the first place.

I know we all wax nostalgic about the old non-centralized Internet with its various small websites and forums, but one thing I do genuinely miss from those days was that those places existed because the people running them wanted them to exist. They had ads or took donations to keep the lights on, but no one was looking to get rich. Passion, not profit.

The decentralized internet was run more by people, the centralized internet is run by board rooms.

That's why I like the idea of the fediverse. That is why this place feels familiar to those early days.

The stock market, much like capitalism in general, is useful if regulated properly, but the inherent corrosive nature of human greed on any regulatory system will eventually erode those regulations down and let this shit run rampant. There are genuine benefits to it, but they're buried beneath the sheer scale of wealth begetting more wealth at the expense of everyone else.

Part of it is that, to spite it being "gambling", it sure doesn't feel like there's a lot of losing going on with the biggest players. They don't seem to need to be as careful as you or I would need to be. It'd be one thing if it was fair gambling, but it isn't.

I appreciate the imgur links and not direct images.

They don't need to retain users for very long, they just need to keep you around as long as possible.

There's always new single people aging into the dating pool, and thanks to Apple, the ones aging into it now are too tech illiterate, susceptible to lock-in tactics, brand loyal, and resistant to trying alternatives if it's even marginally less popular or well known. All of which guarantees a steady flow of new singles to milk dry.

The dating app scene is honestly one of the best examples out there of how fucked this unregulated app market is. Any time an app started to grow, started to chip away at the entrenchment of Match, they just bought it. It provided zero benefit to customers to let it happen, in fact it has made it all demonstrably worse.

This place is also just like reddit in that comments like yours seeking to seem smarter than everyone else by pointing out technicalities in the article as evidence everyone has the wrong idea, without appreciating the full context, and deliberately ignoring the overall point.

Executives paid in stocks and options are completely normal, and those stock options have a value. Moreover, those things were not given to other employees nearly as much as they were given to the CEO.

The actual dollar amount he receives from Reddit is not what matters. What matters is the amount of compensation given to him in comparison to everyone else at Reddit and to other CEOs at other companies, especially when taking his performance into account.

The point is Reddit is effectively giving way too much of its value to one person who has done little to actually make it profitable in all the time he's been there while routinely making mistakes and allowing scandals that have hurt Reddit's reputation.

Also, "to be fair", no one should be profiting of it period. Even $1 is a disgrace.

The fact there's money to be made in denying or refusing to do anything about climate change is literally the primary cause for climate change to go unaddressed.

Profit created the problem, and profit maintains the problem.

Just in general, if any app or platform or website prompts you to allow them access to something out of the blue, and there's no obvious benefit or reason why you would need that, don't grant it. It is on them to adequately explain what it is they're asking for and why.

This "improve your experience" bullshit is Microsoft's default reason for letting them do anything. It means exactly nothing. Go to Microsoft to check documentation or ask them to explain thoroughly. Never take that line as an adequate explanation.

Hell, chances are, if you allowed that, you'd probably see another pop up in a couple days or so saying "Ya know, why not just use Edge? Think of how much more improved the experience could be."

A good 80% of the shit Microsoft notifies you about nowadays is either a disguised ad or some sort of campaign to pressure you into their ecosystem (effectively ads). If the thing is working, you can ignore most everything else.

Of note, I do not give one cold shit about GPT's "growth"

I mean, if you like the platform, it's growth is tied to its continued existence and free usability. Still in the honeymoon phase as long as it's growing.

The people are stupid but the system accurately reflects what people vote for.

Sort of. It really depends on where we're talking.

If we're talking about the national government, then no, it actually doesn't. The president is not elected by popular vote, and the Senate is a deliberately anti-democratic body that does not represent the people proportionately. The Republican party controls nearly half the Senate despite Republican senators representing far fewer Americans than the Democratic senators, and moreover, the Senate doesn't pass most things with a simple 50/50 majority.

We have an archaic system that's based too much on geographical lines drawn up centuries ago and not enough on what the citizens of the country actually want.

So yes, in a very loose sense, a great deal of Americans want these things and that's why we have them, but it's definitely not a majority.

This is entirely too simplistic of an answer.

Religion is part of it for some people, but on the whole, this trend is the result of multiple issues with our culture, our education, our media, and a whole host of other things big and small. All of which have been exacerbated in recent years by bad actors.

It's really satisfying to say things like "religious zealots" but the world is not that simple.

How are we defining "neckbeard" here? Actual assholes, bigots, angry hateful people? Or we just using that as a catch all for tech enthusiasts? I see a lot of conflating between the two.

The tech crowd is always there first. They're the early adopters, so yeah, place is gonna have a lot of those. That was true on Reddit in its early days too. That goes hand in hand with a move to a decentralized platform like this. I'm continually puzzled by people that seem to think this is unusual. We came here to escape a centralized, increasingly walled and corporate controlled space...so yeah, lots of tech enthusiasts, FOSS-heads, and Linux users will be here. Where else would they be?

Actually, reading these comments, this place is starting to feel like reddit.

There's absolutely nothing more Reddit than people on Reddit complaining about Reddit and how everyone else on Reddit is shitty and unreasonable (without supplying any context).

So yeah, it seems Lemmy is right on track.