JasSmith

There are no ad blocking YouTube apps on iOS so I suspect Apple blocks them. The DMA will soon let us in the EU install whatever we like, but fuck Apple.

Wikipedia is a good example but they actually employ designers and developers. I think the secret sauce is paying people to build great software. So a non-profit with donations could absolutely work.

Open license software will never beat paid software in the consumer space. I know that’s a controversial opinion, but it’s been proven a thousand times. There’s no way to beat the user experience of Reddit when they have a hundred experienced UX designers doing nothing but optimising for engagement. We think the overall experience is worse, which is why we’re here, but we are the minority. Lemmy still hasn’t figured out basic problems like what happens to the user experience when an instance defederates from another. The user had no control over that, but suddenly their subscribed communities have disappeared without notice or explanation. Now they have to find another instance to subscribe to, and they lose their entire Lemmy identity.

Yes comrade, I, too, welcome bread lines.

Except BLM and LGBTQ isn’t political. It’s Civil Rights.

I’m sorry but you just sound naive. These are not mutually exclusive. Civil rights are part of politics. All you’re arguing is that you think the politics you like should be allowed in the work place, and the politics you don’t like should not. That’s the hottest take in the entire post.

But if I can’t wear my rainbow onesie to work it’s literally genocide.

I don’t use Spotify, but no one forces artists to list their music on Spotify. They can choose list on any platform they like. FYI Spotify does in fact pay artists. Just less than Bandcamp. Streaming is why I don’t pirate anymore. If I had to go back to paying $30 for an album I’d be a pirate again. So artists can take some of my money, or none of it.

I don’t pirate music or games because there are reasonable platforms and pricing models which make pirating more hassle than it’s worth. Shows and movies, on the other hand, are an absolute shitshow to purchase legally.

• Outrageous pricing.

• Declining quality. Especially writing. See Rings of Power, Wheel of Time, and Foundation.

• Content is often unavailable to purchase. See Disney vault.

• Competing streaming services. I’d have to subscribe to six services to access the shows I like.

• Content disappears from services with little notice.

• Studios and platforms have been removing and modifying older content for political reasons.

It’s like they’re trying to make the experience as bad as possible. So fuck ‘em. Thank you Sonarr and Radarr.

At 18 we let people vote on the direction of the entire nation. We let them buy houses and go into debt for life. We let them die in war for their country. Most places in the world let them drink and get married. Of all of these rights, the absolute least of them is the right to fuck whichever other adult they choose. I cannot understand the utter insanity of thinking one is responsible enough to vote but not have sex. If you don’t think they’re responsible enough to have sex then they’re sure as shit not responsible enough to everything else.

18 year olds are adults. It’s time we stop infantilising them. People used to get married much younger than even that. If they want to fuck an older person, more power to them.

I think this is the biggest risk. 19 year olds often change a lot before they’re ready to settle down. If OP is looking for a long term relationship it’s more risky.

Rage is engaging. Marketing works. Without the rage algorithms and heavy marketing, Fediverse will always be niche. I think that’s okay.

I do too. That’s why I hope Ukraine is able to defend themselves against Russia bombing hospitals and torturing children. Once they’ve pushed Russia all the way back to their border, I hope that the world gives Ukraine so many weapons that Russia will never think about attacking them again.

I fully agree. I’m here so that I can avoid the political echo chambers like Reddit and Facebook. It’s been bizarre seeing the calls to turn Lemmy into Facebook.

I, too, enjoy my safe echo chambers. Just like Facebook!

Wanting to reduce the deficit and immigration isn’t fascism. Every time you misuse that word it becomes a little bit more meaningless.

You are why mass famine in Africa is inevitable. Sustainable population growth isn’t eugenics.

Water demand in sub-Saharan Africa is growing faster than any other region on Earth, and by 2050 it is predicted to rise by 163 percent. That’s four times faster than Latin America, which is the second-highest at a predicted water demand increase of 43 percent.

And how are these sub-Saharan African nations responding? With sky high fertility rates. Nigeria currently welcomes five million new babies every single year. In a nation in which a significant proportion doesn’t currently have access to running water, indoor plumbing, and even electricity. It’s insanity, and there’s literally nothing the West can do to prevent this train from colliding with impending famine. Education is inversely correlated with fertility rates, but these nations are having 35 million babies every single year. Even if we transport every single teacher in the the whole of Europe to Africa, it wouldn’t be enough. We send thousands of tonnes of food aid every year, which only seems to exacerbate the problem. It has also destroyed local food production. Farmers can’t compete with free.

It’s just one huge clusterfuck. The inevitable result is going to be mass starvation. Europe cannot integrate a billion people from sub-Saharan Africa. It can barely accommodate the millions of Syrian refugees. Action needs to be taken now to curb population growth before it’s too late, but it needs to come from within.

That was really an eye opening moment. They didn’t just interject, or caution parties, or attempt to broker a deal. They fucking CRUSHED the workers so hard their kids will remember it. If using a heavy hand was absolutely necessary - and it was not - why not crush the railway companies? The vast majority of the country was behind the workers, so they’d only gain political capital. Instead they took the coldest, most brutal neoliberal position possible. I honestly don’t think the Republicans would have done worse had they been in control.

The first step is allowing others to think a different way. On Reddit, using the wrong word can see you banned from 20 of the top subreddits and even earn you a site-wide ban.

Anything politics related is incredibly toxic. I’ve received death threats for having the wrong political opinions.