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.
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.
I feel bad for every user that hasn’t experienced an internet before all of this. Golden years to me, was 1996 ~ 2008. To others, far earlier.
The only thing we had to deal with then, was just popups. Now, it’s like every fucking thing imaginable has to be turned into some subscription or retooled to be shareholder friendly. Because that’s exactly what everything is gearing towards to appease - these fucking shareholders with stakes. Shareholders, who constitute a band of people who have absolutely no knowledge or fucks given as to what made things as good as they were in past internet. It’s all about data farming for money to then market people to shit.
Google had to go and acquire YouTube, things seemed okay in the beginning. Now look at it, fucking bombardment of ads if you aren’t using an adblocker. Amazon had to go and acquire Twitch and things seemed okay in the beginning. Now look at it, you’re meaning to tell me I have to sit through 8 ads, while you minimize a stream of a channel I’m watching?! AND You’re going to make YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION WHEN AMAZON PRIME ISN’T ENOUGH?! ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!
Reddit was great until 2016, it broke itself over politics. Then it broke itself even further by 2020 and now we are where we are with it. Social Media, is running in place. It’s about statistics anymore. Has Facebook ever been useful and functional? I’m having a hard time now remembering when the last time it even had real people helping you, because now it’s just in some stupid half-ass wiki that doesn’t even have all of the answers in it’s own ecosystem.
Everyone is too politicized now, almost can’t go a damn few comments anymore without someone coming up to you with an emotionally charged reply, that’s hiding in the background, the basis of their political stance.
And that could very well mean that you won’t ever get another shot with them again for quite a long time. So let’s say there is someone you’re crushing on and you’ve been hesitant on asking them out or feeling for them to work on something. But nothing comes of it for reasons....
I just had to report something to the police that will probably end a very close friendship of mine, but it was something that was totally not okay and I had to do it. But I still feel like a piece of shit for it. Have you ever felt like this and how did you get through it?
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.
My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.
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
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.
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.
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.
Now to add to the distro wars as to ‘which distro is better than which’, we’re gonna have ‘what is real linux and what isn’t real linux’ on top of that eternal debate? Lovely…
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.
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.
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.
I have a vendetta against Chromium because of Valve having to cease support for older OSes. They did that because of Chromium being built into the Steam client.
The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It’s that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.
I’ve been using the internet a long time before dark mode was a thing. I’ve served my time by dealing with too much white, everywhere, that blinds me whenever it came up suddenly.
Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
Everyone should pile the blame on the GOP and current SCOTUS. The only ones not blaming are the ones obviously loving the idea of watching this country go to shit aka their voterbase.
I’m open for a Somebody not Biden, Somebody not Trump, Somebody not Republican, Somebody not from a crazy batshit philosophy with rabid tyrants behind and Somebody who is competent to be on the ballot.
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.
Place is going exactly as expected (lemmy.world)
Losing someone you love to another person isn't what hurts the most, it's when they're burned out from love that does
And that could very well mean that you won’t ever get another shot with them again for quite a long time. So let’s say there is someone you’re crushing on and you’ve been hesitant on asking them out or feeling for them to work on something. But nothing comes of it for reasons....
Unconfirmed PS5 Slim: New PlayStation 5 console rumored for upcoming reveal (www.notebookcheck.net)
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Have you ever done the right thing, but felt like shit afterwards?
I just had to report something to the police that will probably end a very close friendship of mine, but it was something that was totally not okay and I had to do it. But I still feel like a piece of shit for it. Have you ever felt like this and how did you get through it?
Blizzard games are coming to Steam (www.theverge.com)
I guess they’re giving up on convincing people to download their launcher.
Besides speed, what would actually suck about surfing the internet back in the day compared to now?
My pick would be, dealing with the ‘wild west’ atmosphere. That being, before cyber bullying laws existed, you had bunches of people getting off scot-free with telling you to off yourself or call you a list of derogatory terms.
Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share (www.theregister.com)
Not mine but sounds like a showerthought to me. TL;DR ChromeOS is the “wrong” version of Linux and has 4% while GNU/Linux has 3%
Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?
I know data privacy is important and I know that big corporations like Meta became powerful enough to even manipulate elections using our data....
Baldur's Gate 3 Will Feature 17,000 Ending Variations (wccftech.com)
In your opinion, how would the perfect online social media platform be like?
See title
"It has to be Chromium" (lemmy.world)
TIL Alice Walton (Walmart heir) killed a pedestrian in a driving accident and was never charged. She has also been arrested for DUI twice but never charged. (en.wikipedia.org)
The sketchy part is not her not getting convicted. It’s that no charges were even filed. I also enjoyed this bit of info from one of the sources regarding the other DUI incident. Prosecutors in Texas have dropped a 2011 drunken driving citation against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. heiress Alice Walton.
TIL: Dark mode causes eye strain
For a few years I used dark mode because i thought it was better for your eyes; it isn’t....
Young Americans blame SCOTUS, GOP for unforgiven student loan debt (www.axios.com)
Young Americans are piling the blame for their student debt balances on conservatives, according to a poll by Generation Lab provided exclusively to Axios.
Biden raised nearly as much money as all the Republican candidates combined, showing the power of the somebody-other-than-Trump vote (www.businessinsider.com)
Top Extensions to Make YouTube Bearable (lemmy.world)
Hello fellow, lemmings, lemmur !...
[meme] Trains are 100000x easier to electrify and automate than cars, so why does everyone keep talking about electric and driverless cars? (lemmy.world)