Their reasons mean nothing. It’s my device. I shouldn’t have to worry about an application installed on my device being policed because the developer got a hair up their ass about people downgrading.
The phrase “more secure” is becoming meaningless as it keeps being used as a blanket excuse for literally every user hostile change.
The notion of “summer reddit” went hand in hand with the “moms basement” sayings, and even “touch grass” in a way:
Namely all of them are from millennials that are still thinking the person on the other end of the comment is sitting in front of a computer. It ignores the simple fact we all have the internet in our pockets and can be chronically online and actually out in the world doing things at the same time.
Why does removing them from the site also mean cutting their user count from Active Users though?
It could be, but combine the color looking very much like Apple’s space grey, the slimness of it, particularly how slim the lid is versus the body, and what looks like the MacBook’s classic black, rounded rubber stoppers on the bottom, I think it’s safe to say that’s meant to be an MacBook.
Also certain MacBook models tried to go to a single USB C port about a decade ago, and it was on the corner like that.
Fair enough.
And let’s be real, you at least need a degree of tech savvy to deal with the inevitable issues that will come up. Even on the simplest distro.
I’m seeing a lot more of these MSN, “Microsoft Start” links lately. You can’t even get to the original article through this trashy page or read the whole thing without downloading an app. It’s like AMP links but significantly worse.
I don’t know where people are getting these, but please stop giving Microsoft clicks by sharing them. Link directly to the article.
https://metro.co.uk/2024/09/08/esas-salsa-satellite-will-plummet-back-earth-this-evening-21568170/
This many chiefs (not rank-and-file, chiefs), putting this much effort into breaking Navy protocol, together, is crazy. And for what? Memes?
I know deployment at sea can be boring but Jesus fucking Christ, read a damn book or something.
I’m shocked I had to come down this far to find this.
They’re talking about bots, but that doesn’t in any way sound abnormal. People downvote comments like that all the time for their own satisfaction.
For example, imagine a post where three users comment:
One posts a heated stream of idiocy, falsehoods, and outright nastiness, thinly veiled bigotry and other garbage. Paragraphs of it, all poorly written.
Another is some basic comment not saying anything of any real consequence. Completely mundane to the point no one has upvoted it, but it is perfectly harmless.
The final is a comment with some meat on it and something to add to the conversation, but unfortunately they arrived too late to the thread. No one saw it, so no one upvoted it.
Without downvotes, all three of these comments are treated exactly the same.
I get downvotes can suck sometimes but they’re a valuable aspect to this system and removing them does not make the place better.
I’d argue what people need to do if these things are genuinely bothering them is turn off the scores entirely and learn to live without them. It’s better for your mental health.
Will provide singular answers, with no sources, that no one else can see and therefore no one else can fact check, correct, or improve upon.
Then, instead of being posted publicly for others to find and searches to index, those answers will disappear into the ether, so that no other users get that answer unless they too do an AI search from the same provider.
And all of this at the expense of every website and content creator who no longer even gets seen in a search engine, let alone page views. At the expense of every writer whose words will never be seen, only thrown in a pile of words and remixed, then vomited back out. And at the expense not the environment that will suffer to power all of this wasteful, needless garbage.
This is going to be a disaster for the internet as a whole, and it’s really sad how many people can’t understand this. Tech bros continue to fundamentally misunderstand what makes the internet valuable isn’t code, it isn’t “data”, it’s humans.
I was banned from /r/grindr for suggesting it’s ok for trans people to use it. It’s legitimately one of the most blatantly, unapologetically terrible mods I’ve ever seen, and it’s just him.
Cat drama in particular seems to always hit maximum outrage really fast.
Because what you consider a fact is based on studies that don’t provide as compelling evidence as you want to believe they do.
Generally speaking, it’s probably best to not do it, but calling it outright abuse requires evidence that it is causing actual harm, and the scientific consensus on it is not as solid as you think it is.
Recent academic review of many past studies have found that it’s inconclusive.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9860667/
Basically, we need more studies before we can start deleting shit on accusations of animal abuse.
Posting an article about something and then using it plug something else alongside it is the kind of deliberate spam mods should be removing, no matter what software they’re plugging.
Are you a bot or just this uninformed?
Firefox has extensions and isn’t chromium. Only a fool thinks a Chromium browser will stay friendly to extensions after Manifest 3.
Ugh.
Can’t even escape srgrafo’s pandering, lazy garbage on Lemmy.
This has the same energy as early YouTube where channels would “crossover”, i.e. YouTuber stands in the doorway of their room talking to no one on camera, and another YouTuber talks to no one off camera, then edits them together.
That’s literally always been him. The whole time.
His lazy comics were always spam to attract attention to his profile where he sold merch and took commissions for loli shit.
I’d take that bet.
I would love to believe the situation is as you believe it is, but I just don’t see it.
As others have said, the usage on old reddit appears to be exceedingly low, around 1-2% if developers are seeing it accurately.
We know that the vast majority of all usage nowadays is mobile, or at least hybrid. And at least half of those mobile users are on iphones, where they have no choice. The only thing that keeps old.reddit working on my phone is Firefox extensions.
The unfortunate truth is the reason reddit and so many other platforms get away with rampant enshitification is that the overwhelming majority of users are either incapable or unwilling to find ways around it. They just accept it and become increasingly angry and frustrated with the platform, but refusing to do anything else except continue to use it.
Developers see these numbers and they plan for it. They getting extremely condescending about it, too. Why listen to the “vocal minority” of technically inclined power users when you can pay attention to the majority of silent people who accept literally anything.
Gone are the days where the majority of your users are going to be tech savvy. Once upon a time, when your user base was made up of informed, technical users on desktops, what you did with your software or your site would directly have an effect on your numbers because those users knew how and were willing to try other things.
Nowadays, because of phones are in everyone’s pocket, your user base is everyone, and unfortunately for all of us, that everyone includes the majority of people who will drink a shit sundae over and over again before will even consider going to different restaurant.
It’s not an actually a captive customer base, but it effectively is. They’re just held captive by their own tech illiteracy and lack of patience. What those people do determines the future of the industry now.
Yes they will. This tool would force users to always use the Play Store which would increase the download count on their app, which would help its ranking in the Play Store. Every last single developer is incentivized to use this.