thawed_caveman @ thawed_caveman @lemmy.world

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I think i've only ever used Firefox since i got the internet (2009), but that also makes my reccomendation kinda moot because i haven't used any other browser. How can i say that Firefox is better than Chrome if i've never used Chrome?

Another side effect is that i'm well aware of all the issues Firefox has, since it's all i've ever used, all the browser issues i've had were in Firefox.

I was going to use it to lubricate keyboard switches but it turns out that it's bad for plastics.

I suspect a lot of yall should say this:

There is nothing worse than seeing my own flaws reflected in someone. Like, if they're a lazy neckbeard who talks about niche media and old-sci-fi while contributing nothing to society.

Especially the flaws i had when i was younger. I die a bit every time i see an unaware selfish arrogant teenager.

what is the amount

There is no amount, how could there be? How could anyone place an exact dollar value on something like this?

You can't make a billion dollars honestly, but the exact amount of money that you can make honestly is unknowable, that's just not the kind of thing that has a hard value on it.

Matter of fact, i'm not sure if i agree with the original statement anyway, for the same reason: is there literally no way to make a billion dollars honestly? I don't know that you can make that kind of hard statement

I assume payment processors is also the reason why Verizon banned porn, although i don't think they talked about it like the wurrent owners do.

Wordpress bought Tumblr in 2019 for, allegedly, 3M$, which is a huge discount, and they've done a good job running the place so far.

Partially true: they want to bring it back but payment processors wouldn't like that (the post i am linking is from the CEO of Tumblr's parent company, who bought it from Verizon in 2019)

That was the old owners. The new owners have stated that they want to bring porn back but it's not really feasible because payment processors are anti-porn.

This is just a different manifestation of a core problem the fediverse has: it can get annoying to try to interact with content outside of your own instance.

And then we wonder why people flocked to Threads instead of Mastodon.

I really think the federated aspect should be almost invisible infrastructure, like how we never think about OpenSSL behind the scenes when we make a secure payment. There's even a browser plugin to simplify Mastodon federation, so it can't be that hard. Frankly, something even more seamless than that should be the default.

But it wasn't designed this way for whatever reason, i'm sure there's good reasons but it's hard to empathize when i follow a link and suddenly i find myself in a new place where i'm not logged in, even though this "place" is still on Lemmy.

Also, some very specialized tools are commercially available. In fact, i'm not sure what kind of tool is so special that you can't buy it at all, outside of science and advanced measurements and such.

As a moderator, i find it satisfying to clean my little corner of the internet.

We all see spam an scams when we use social media, and there's not much that you can do about it, maybe report it to admins if you have a minute. For the most part, you're powerless.

But on my fenced area of the internet, i actually get to do something about it. If your bot reposts content on r/shittyfoodporn to farm karma, i will pluck it out like a snail from my salad and kill it. Removing bad content is as satisfying as popping a pimple, it gives me the same joy as a retired dad meticulously cleaning his garden.

The less enjoyable part is when i have to interfere with the users themselves. Mildly saucy fanart will get posted to r/zootopia and i have to decide if it's over or under the line, and it feels bad to remove a post that somebody legitimately just wanted to share.

There has to be one, but i think most sci-fi authors are left-leaning so their utopias and dystopias both reflect that.

And if everyone does that, eventually there will be a main community that emerges and the other ones die.

Washed dishes that had been sitting for a while. There was moist rotten food, and mold.

Everyone reading this, you should try as much as possible to never share a 300 sqft appartment with three male students during lockdown.

Yeah, a ton of people have tried their hand at turning Askreddit into videos. It's a genre. I've watched a few of them because Askreddit is interesting and having this curated experience is even better.

However, as always with YouTube, if it's easy to do then a lot of people are already doing it, so there's a lot of channels doing this and most of them don't go anywhere. A lot of times you can tell the process is as automated as possible.

The same thing will be done with Asklemmy when there's enough content to support a channel

I am 30 years old and no achievements whatsoever. Nothing i've made has my name on it, none of it made me happy, and i got paid for very little of it.

A lot of people are deeply insecure like i am, but the difference is i have the financial privilege to not have to get out of my comfort zone, so i never did. I made a locked safe box for myself that nothing ever pushed me out of.

I'm not even rich enough to help people that much, at least not when i don't have an income. So i don't even have that satisfaction.

But a lot of torrent users have appreciated me over the years so that's nice

One guy had geo-IP banning because they believe everyone who is from these coutnries list is an idiot who doesn't know how to use Soulseek.

You think they told me that? No, they messaged me to tell me everyone from [insert country] was poor and ignorant, refused to explain, acted like it was obvious and i was stupid for not already knowing, judged me for using public torrent trackers; and when i called them arrogant, they said (this is almost a direct quote) "i'm not arrogant, i'm just better than you".

In their defense, i was sharing the Incomplete folder.

I follow a small number of people, browse the Followed feed in chronological order, and never miss a tweet from someone i follow.

I do not browse For You (algorithmic reccomendations), i do not keep up with drama, and i used uBlock to delete the Trending section from my sceen. I don't get a lot of notifications, but if i did i'd have to get used to ignoring them.

This is the way. Twitter is inherently mediocre, but it is made interesting by the people on it, so if you follow the rules above you can have a pretty good time.

As discussed here:

Honestly they do it so consistently that i’m starting to wonder if they have a choice.

A common way to do things for tech startups is that they get venture capital funds, use them to run the business at a loss hoping to acquire market dominance, and then use market dominance to turn a profit. I think a lot of tech startups that we know are currently in phase 2, meaning they’ve thrown money out the window for years and are now trying to recoup their investments.

Also, Reddit wants to go public and Twitter already is. This is relevant because investors are animals, all they see is short-term profit, and they use their voting power to make the company behave that way.

There’s a common thread between both my theories: it’s shareholder capitalism. I say this as a lifelong shareholder myself, shareholders ruin everything.

I think when they say 'illegal content' they mean, like, drugs and terrorism. Piracy probably ranks pretty low on the list.

Now yes the definition of piracy technically fits in the definition of 'illegal content', but just because two definitions intersect doesn't mean you will get the logical consequences. The word of the rules is one thing, the rules in practice is another, so i think you can get away with a lot regardless of instance.

Besides, do the rules apply to the instance where you have your account, or to the instance where you're posting/commenting? I genuinely don't know