Not to mention Beeper claims to be open source, but it actually isn't. That's a HUGE red flag.
This could have changed of course, and anyone's free to prove me wrong, in fact I'd be glad if someone did.
Because running a local Beeper instance over trusting them with your data is ALWAYS the best choice.
Yes, I know a lot of indie devs are also in this conversation, but their fears are also misplaced.
Indie devs already get a free pass on expectations, because more often than not, it's a team of <10 people.
So you don't hold them to the same standards as large game companies.
All this says is that large game studios don't see anything but money.
Game development should be about making the best product you can.
It isn't about getting paid 200 million for "development" costs.
Indies know this, and large game companies are A F R A I D.
So when someone makes a product that's good, and it threatens their model of minimal effort/maximum profit, they start making hitpieces like this.
Customers do not decide what games you make.
Quit game development if you think we set the bar.
Customers choose the best product for their time, and I'm sorry, if that's Baldur's Gate 3 tier standards, and you can't as an AAA studio with 10000 employees make as good of a product, that's on your lack of skill. Stop crying, git gud.
It's all just about what you consider "conscious" to be.
To be alive, to me, is to be conscious.
One might raise the couple issues with that, and to an extent, they have a point.
Such as completely comatose people.
We've recently discovered comatose people are conscious, and are working on ways for them to communicate.
What about people who are kept "alive" only by machines, with no brain activity?
I'd consider that person dead.
It's only that his organs are being kept stable, in the event he can be recovered, or until the organs get donated.
This is actually false.
Browsers have very good garbage/memory management, and will work perfectly fine with loading infinite amounts of data to the page.
The issue is absolutely horrible coding from frontend devs that causes bloat which the browser doesn't clean off due to static references.
Is a turnip as complex lifeform as a dog? Of course not, not that we know of anyhow.
Should we still disregard it as a living being? No.
Just like we don't disregard heavily disabled humans. Or abandon heavily disabled pets.
Plants may be however complex lifeforms, but to claim they're simply piles of lifeless mush is to disregard any science progress of the past 100-200 years.
I'm not saying the OG is/isn't bait, I'm saying humans need to be less narrow minded, and more open to discussion regarding these kinds of things.
I'll try to find the papers to reference them proper, but take that with a grain of salt, because I'll probably forget or fail to do so.
And yeah, the ones I've linked so far are very surface level, but it does however prove the existence of something that isn't all too well understood yet, much less known of by a overwhelming majority.
So I try to spread awareness to it. Better if I had the links, I agree, but alas.
Recent studies actually show the opposite of "no sentience".
Plants communicate with each other, even across different species and kingdoms.
That means certain animals for example can understand signals from plants better than they understand us.
And that's just communication.
The world of life on earth is so much more than the naive human way of thinking.
In fact, it's likely we've already encountered multiple different life forms from space already, and we just have no way to know yet.
So please.
Jump off the high horse, take off your hat, and acknowledge that the food on your plate has had a very diverse, colorful life.
You can still choose not to eat animals.
Just like I choose not to eat dogs and cats, some people see them no different to cows, pigs, and plants.
Try Liftoff for Lemmy, not sure it has a Google Playstore page, but it is in FDroid.
The best FDroid client (in my opinion) is Neostore, so check that out if you're looking to check it.
[ https://github.com/NeoApplications/Neo-Store ]
For PC, others have already listed several alternatives.
Just write a userscript that only shows your own comments.
Or create your own server, defederate from everywhere, and talk to yourself in an echochamber.
I know I'm not the target aydience, but deer god I can't stand minecraft channels.
Absolutely obnoxious camera spanning, 95% of the video is zoomed in a minecraft characters face, obnoxious speech.
Not to mention Beeper claims to be open source, but it actually isn't. That's a HUGE red flag. This could have changed of course, and anyone's free to prove me wrong, in fact I'd be glad if someone did. Because running a local Beeper instance over trusting them with your data is ALWAYS the best choice.