Yep. During my very short (6 mos) stint as a tech support rep for Dell, I've learned to assume your customer is an idiot. Even when they're using techie terms or jargon (and at times more so). Never assume other things besides that or you'll probably regret it.
You have to be very clear and precise. A single misunderstanding can take a simple problem a lot of time to get fixed.
Not to mention saying "just stop using Zoom" is pretty dumb if your company insists on using it. I've lobbied for other apps to be used with my company but they didn't budge mainly because we'll have to convince ALL our customers and clients to use whatever service we use as well.
There's no evidence. If they wanted to censor "fuck spez" they would have done it from the beginning. They were censoring nipples and piss - why did they leave those? There were tons of them all over the canvas, with a big one by various communities towards the end. Plus, it's a known fact that admins remove all color but white towards the end - that's why this was planned when people knew r/place was ending.
I also don't see anyone mentioning reddit going down anywhere. You're the first one to mention it that I've seen. You have links that reddit went down? Legit Q because not even the discords I'm in mention anything about that.
r/place would have been successful even if zero protestors even thought about going there. That's the unfortunate reality. You gotta understand that in terms of traffic (this includes bots and streamers), we're nowhere near reddit to make any difference.
Given that, what would we have accomplished had we just stayed silent? I'm not saying all of us must participate (that would be stupid of me), but we can still do something despite the odds.
A lot of people are blissfully unaware of the protests. A lot of people don't even know spez. Much less knows about the fediverse or other alternatives. I think it's worth it to even get those people thinking why a lot of people are reacting to spez that way.
Another thing I keep forgetting to add is the exposure. I'm honestly shocked at how mamy people are ignorant to the protests. A lot of them don't even know who spez is. Even if they don't leave reddit, they'd at least have an idea of what reddit is becoming.
Would they care? Maybe not. But they can't even decide for themselves if they don't even know wtf is going on.
Ah yes, the old "It's still engagement" angle.
Do you really think it would be a major addition to their views if even a whole major instance of lemmy joined? The bot accounts alone being used there would overshadow the number of lemmings that engage there. And that doesn't even count streamers with tens of thousands of minions. Even if 20,000 lemmings went there, it won't make a mark. A lot of people, shockingly, are still ignorant of what happened. Idk how that's even possible but there you go.
They. Will. Get. Their. Views. Regardless.
Might as well get something out of it.
Your engagement is more important to them than your message.
Not if your message would prevent them from using it for advertisers. They've been removing nipples, dicks, piss, guillotines, etc and people still put them there. How do you think advertisers will react to that when they don't want their brands associated with "unsavory" stuff?
Honestly? Yes. I've tried to make it work twice, both times because of the chat feature. Couldn't stand it. Playing videos is 50/50, threw a few errors at me that I never experienced with TPAs, it's highly unintuitive specially with those huge ads taking up most of the space.
Yes. It's awful. It was so bad I stuck with a TPA and just used chat (if I had to) on browser on my pc.
I know a lot of doctors who are overweight/obese, have unhealthy lifestyles, and/or make dumb personal decisions. I go to doctors for their expertise in their fields; that doesn't mean I'd trust their personal decisions.
I'll be sure to not make the same mistake when i start my bat-man community.
I'm not going to argue for/against the article. However,
we need laws and policies promoting open access and sharing of knowledge, not maximizing profits through contrived scarcity
As a fan of FOSS (and the Open Source community in general), I completely agree with this. Sharing knowledge can do a lot of good.
A lot of the posts say they couldn't make an account or lemmy is ugly. Well..
it's not our problem if your dumbass can't even handle signing up. If you're that incompetent to be unable to sign up, good luck with piracy.
lemmy is ugly? Ok that's subjective. There's also kbin which looks great (imho) on desktop. Lemmy-wise, our apps (in fucking alpha) already look better and function better than the official reddit app.
Let them stay there. It's ironic those "pirates" prefer to support big corpo. Shows what they really are.
Edit: and that breaks my "X number of days without browsing reddit." Tbf i only looked at that post. Yeah, that's what I'll tell myself to feel better. Lmao.
Still waiting for LinusXI Pro Max.