Mastodon never wanted to topple the social media landscape they just wanted to get on the top of it.

For fuck sake you may as well come out as a pedophile if you’re going to be posting shit like this.

It’s really not hard to tell.

😀 Deregulate the government - 😏 Give the power to private corporations

😄 They start fucking up - 😲 They start fucking up

People are allowed to make mistakes every now and then. I would draw the line at open mod abuse such as using their rank to intimidate or just flat out removing people who they disagree with. Still a pretty crappy showing that I hope they grow from, but like, give them that chance.

Man, lemmy will just let anyone moderate.

Go to old.reddit enter a porn search and enable NSFW, that’s basically the same experience.

Well right now it’s just a bunch of reposts so you’re not missing out on anything. Very little exclusive content on there.

If you don’t need it you won’t find it.

It’s been over 3 years now and they haven’t fucked around, mostly because if they did it would have people asking questions like “why do we have to pay a private company for a public utility anyway?” Besides, doing so would have been a breach of contract and would have opened them up to getting sued. The plan quite literally said that a phone would be provided, it never specified the quality of the phone.

Fun fact that’s actually how I got my top-of-the-line phone for free. I went in for a new phone&plan and we negotiated a good plan that worked for me, one that came included with a phone. When it came time to close the deal they go into the back and get me a phone. It’s a crappy hand-me-down, so naturally I ask if they have any other options. There were two more options each one took them longer to come back from and each one being pretty much the same thing. I ask if they have anything better and they go back and grab an Iphone which I declined because I don’t fuck with apple. They take the phone, very quickly put it away, then walk right up to the rack, picked one of their best phones and handed it to me. I smiled and accepted.

Because they’re salespeople paid on commission, I was able to game the system to effectively rob the store of an expensive product and the most fucked up thing about that whole situation is that everyone involved still made more money off of me in the long term than if I walked. We really need nationalized communications utilities because the whole thing is just so ridiculous.

Kickstarter is infamous for being full of marketing tech bros who take your money and deliver nothing.

Indegogo is Kickstarter without any of the consumer protections. It’s not a matter of if you’ll get scammed, but by how much.

You would think that people would learn not to put all their eggs into one corporate basket after Facebook fucked everyone over…

On the other end I have a lot of first-hand experience of Discord’s abuses and that’s precisely why I have my stance on it.

You can even request your entire metadata blob to see for yourself.

COVID got people used to video/audio communication, then the other platforms enshitified while discord remained as shit as they always were.

Admins please include instance blocking for comments, thanks. No instance ending in .de ever has anything of value to say.

I’ve heard that one so many times it’s not even funny.

Well there goes another reliable source of evidence. I’m hoping that we don’t end up making everything into discord where people can flat out brag about how they’re abusing kids in their basement and then delete when law enforcement comes around (Yes I actually saw that happen)