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I wouldn’t be so hopeful, Twitch has pretty much remained unbeaten and the only “ad block” solution I’ve found still gives a 30 second interruption of the stream, it just doesn’t show the ad anymore. It’s why I don’t use the site anymore, even with Twitch Turbo as an option these days.

It’s nazis turning on nazis. I don’t care who wins, I just care that they decimate each other so this invasion stops before the potential outcome of Trump ending up back in office.

I invest in Meta since I figure I’d better make money off of Zuck if he’s gonna make money off of me, and I’m curious if my money is literally on him. This seems like the type of universe where stock prices could fluctuate based on whether or not the CEO has a better punch than the other guy.

I can understand not wanting to be referred to as CIS, it’s hardly like everyone associates good connotations with the prefix considering the high tensions that can come in relevant discussions, but to outright ban it is absurd. To be clear,

Banning use of a word that’s part of our daily vocabulary around the world

it’s not part of everyone’s daily vocabulary around the world, and that is precisely the problem. I grew up in shithole Oklahoma, and the only time I have ever heard or said the word in-person is when talking with my trans friend, and I literally had to remember what the prefix was last time I was having a discussion involving it. I learned about the word not from someone who was politely explaining to me the difference, but from a very openly hostile person referring to CIS people as “scum” online. That’s a really shitty first impression. I get that it’s not actually an offensive term, but the feelings I was experiencing when I learned the meaning have sure stuck around and I don’t generally enjoy using the term. If, instead, the term was more normalized, it’d just be a normal run-of-the-mill word to me that I wouldn’t have a problem associating with.

I feel like banning it and calling it a “slur” is literally only problematic for these sorts of reasons and will lead to continued pointless division of something that should just be a basic descriptor. It’s misleading, will associate negative emotions with the word, and will in turn hamper LGBTQ+ acceptance as the phrase is continually thrown around.

tl;dr Musk is a dumb fucking idiot that is going to harm society.

They have a definition, they just won’t tell the users because it’s not a realistic definition and they plan to pull the rug out later on.

If third-party apps were only 3% of total traffic and reddit was willing to destroy its image and massively increase the viability of its only competitor just before IPO over it, I’m sure they’ll have no problem getting rid of whatever percentage of blind people who can’t see the ads reddit wants to serve anyway.

Nah, reddit is taking so long with the data requests it’d probably be easier to just ask these guys.

But seriously, this confirmation makes reddit look so much worse right now.

You’re safe from the big bad scary communists on Lemmy.

Kbin.social doesn’t defederate lemmy.ml, so either way we’re playing by their “don’t say Uyghur genocide because we don’t think it’s real and we will ban you based on that belief” rules if we accidentally stumble into there.

This is where I would like to see individual-level instance blocking so that it doesn’t show up in the home feed, same as how I can block everything that pops up in a language I don’t speak.

Edit: Turns out we have that! Just found another thread showing how. On kbin, it’s possible to view entire instances separately, and there’s a “block” button similar to individual magazines/communities/users. To see lemmy.ml, the link would be

https://kbin.social/d/lemmy.ml

but replacing the lemmy.ml part with any instance should take people to that instance just the same.

Yes they are. Facebook’s audience is as many people as possible, because their business is advertising based on collected data. They would ideally want literally everyone on the platform, but this is the real world and lowest common denominator makes more sense from a business standpoint.

Edit: Getting celebrities and influencers on-board is basically a requirement to get the average person to care, because they’re not on the platform to follow other average people.

On the upside, patents have an expiry date. Quite far from now, but if we make it to that, then we’ll just have ourselves a single common standard that everyone is free to use.

It just sucks in the meantime.

That’s what I’m hoping for. I don’t want a bunch of accounts depending on what device I’m using, I want to have one account on a platform that I like and have good interfaces for using it.

That’s why I left reddit, they removed my ability to do that by killing Boost.

I used to use Boost, I stopped when they banned the community showing how to switch to kbin.

The fact of the matter is that I don’t care if something is a monopoly as long as it’s a monopoly for it’s quality. Reddit used to be that, a hub for damn near all of my interests, and I used Boost to make the experience great.

But reddit is getting worse with this change, so I’m here now.

The enemy of my enemy is also my enemy.

Because it’s a Microsoft phone, not because it’s a bad idea.

I agree, that web page is awful and even as a generally tech-savvy person it steered me away from Lemmy. Only joined kbin after reddit banned it and I had a clear “join this thing, reddit doesn’t like it” sign.

While the ideal may be spreading users out across instances and federating, I think the fact is that reddit refugees probably just want to be directed to something popular they can join and get content from without hassle.

Name a more iconic duo?