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  • Microsoft hilariously butchered the introduction of Edge, which showed a logo that was strikingly similar to IE. They've sworn up and down that Edge wasn't like IE. But Edge, behaved similarly to IE. It took Microsoft a few years to finally give Edge it's own identity and more or less, better functionality.

  • Nowadays, Google just gives you results. Relevance may vary.

    DuckDuckGo can give you more accurate results, but feels thin.

    And search engines like Bing and Google, try too hard on being swiss army knives that do everything. From calculating to weather to showing movies from local theaters. Anything they do to keep you glued to them.

  • I felt like I caused a bad chain reaction in my IRL family. My sister was in a heated family court case against her ex-spouse and the custody battles for her son aka my nephew. I worked and voiced against her in the whole case which cast a black cloud of judgment over me by everyone else. She was just, doing every possible thing wrong in the whole case. Blaming her ex-spouse's daughter in baseless claims, fruitlessly attacking her ex-spouse for unrelated incidents. She was just not painting a good picture of a mother who cared about her children, it was just "I was in what I felt was a bad marriage and I want to make my ex husband pay!" rhetoric.

    In the end, she lost. She not only lost custody of her son, but got to serve 10 days in jail as an example set by the judge of the court room. Similar circumstances almost repeated themselves years later when she stupidly had sex with former ex-spouse to try and win custody and alimony for their daughter aka my niece. She lost that case too and I stood my own ground.

    I felt bad all around for the entirety of both cases. It didn't need to happen. It shouldn't have happened. If only she wasn't a dumbfuck with the outdated, feminist mindset of "MAN BAD!" which is ultimately what costed her both cases. So now, niece and nephew are just out there enduring the trials of being motherless and who knows what their futures will be when the day comes that they will reflect on this.

  • It's now a symbol of how deteriorated Reddit has become. I mean, yeah, you've summarized it perfectly. r/place is now the symbolism of everything wrong with Reddit. It's repetitious, as much as all of the karma farming posts on Reddit have been for years. All the other places had contained a culture snapshot of everything that Reddit brought together.

    All that this version of Place has brought, is all of the anguish towards one person and their poor decision making.

  • And for estranged reason, the previous CEO will be missed.

    This happened to Gaia Online, where they lost their main admin for a good few years. Was remembered for basically just stumbling upon luck which got Gaia Online into it's hottest peak within 2007 through 2010. New CEO comes in, practically decimates the site and it's community with greedy practices. Old admin comes back, is practically worshiped, but really didn't bring the same magic as before. Because again, he just struck luck and we realized that he didn't really have a lot of good answers to bring the site back to shape.

  • That worked for me as well. Anything else, I just kept getting error after error after error. So I'm not quite certain what's going on. It appears that to me, it doesn't like the format provided in this community on the sidebar.

    I was proven wrong. What I did was that I looked into my modlog, took the snippet of "/c/web1", applied it over the format example, while combining the link provided in your comment. It works perfectly.

  • Yeah I'm seeing this stupid 10G thing advertised by Mediacom, too in my area. Like, we're just entering 5G era here and there's this...10G? So, you're meaning to tell me that we've been duped into believing 5G all along as being the next best thing but oh wait, did they dig this 10G shit out from some governmental secret program that was hidden for years to provide us this speed to browse with?

  • I'll gladly take YouTube Shorts Block. It is by far, to me, the most unnecessary thing I've found on YouTube. So when you watch one of these things, note that you cannot control the volume of them. It's always mute or not mute. They also have a tendency to snap in place when you're between videos and in doing so, will restart the video all over again. It is annoying.

    I get it's purpose, but I don't need it in my face.

  • It'd have no karma system, so there'd be nobody to say or do things to artificially inflate votes.

    There'd be subcommunities but they'd be decentralized from eachother so that there is no overlap. There'd be a central hub for you to navigate with that'll take you to where you want to go.

    There would be a focus on privacy for sensitive communities. Like for example, if there's a mental health or depression community, any outside view would be blurred and you'd be unable to interact with the community unless you're registered and proved a set of credentials so that you're not there just to gather ammo on some people or risk being problematic for the sake of the community.

    There wouldn't be a thing like on Reddit where, if you delete something, you can see it again through archives. Once it's deleted, it's gone, out of sight and out of mind.

    And unlike Reddit, I'd prevent the abuse of alt accounts by actually installing verification systems through registering. It's amazing how ignorant they've been on their registration system.

  • And all of them are probably going to be slightly alternate from eachother, but serving no significance. Kind of like those Mortal Kombat endings where each character had a slideshow ending, but just reworded.

  • They're only as strong as long as there's persistence. But, that doesn't mean that when it is used, it won't have an affect. People have been getting arrested and charged for alluring people to kill themselves online. Whereas, back then, it felt like quite an uphill battle because everyone would've just told you to block the person or close the IM window.

  • There also used to be a huge stigma with being infamous online. Like, you were seen as an actual loser if your only claim to fame was online and not anything worthwhile in real life. That's such an interesting turn of events where by the mid to late 2000s, people were getting crazy popular online and actually earning revenue for it through YouTube and it has built up since with the likes of Twitch, OnlyFans .etc

  • If they've nothing to hide, then why are they so dodgy when things like lolicon are discussed? Their actions speak louder than their words ever could.

    There is an age old practice from olden days of the internet. If you don't want your nudes out there, if you don't want your name out there, if you don't want anything of you out there - you don't put it out there. Because once it's out there, you won't ever know who'll see it much less, have it. I always assume, that as soon as I upload a picture of myself somewhere on social media, someone would've had to have right clicked and saved it already. For what purpose? Who knows, could be a matter of some sick personal collector of people they particularly are fascinated with to potential murderers who're only lacking my location but should they find me out in the open, they'll know what I look like and probably kill me. And anything in between.

    But so many people on Facebook, complain about how it is that they make new accounts and suddenly are presented with familiar faces to re-add as friends. Whether or not it's a new e-mail to even a new location, Facebook knows you so well by now, that they'll pitch you all of whom you've had, even if you don't want them. That defeats the point of wanting a refreshing restart on your life when all you've got is reminders.

    Black markets also exist that circulate your data. Why would one think that one day, they're seeing a bunch of transactions that they didn't authorize all of a sudden? Well, somewhere at somepoint, someone did seize your credit card or bank info and now is running hogwild on it.

    They're not worried yet because it hasn't happened to them, but boy do the tables turn once people are affected by these experiences.