Have you ever used cheats on single player games when that was still a thing developers put in games? I did, it was fun. That's why.

I remember a similar case regarding Windows shipping with IE. Whatever happened with that?

Lemmy only has the voting per individual post and comment, but doesn’t accumulate this as a sidewide score.

Lemmy does have a karma system. Here's yours.

In that case the only people that can answer the question are the engineers from those platforms.

Of all the formats you mentioned these are supported on popular platforms:

• Twitter: gif
• Discord: gif
• Mastodon: gif
• Reddit: gif, apng
• Tumblr: gif, webp
• Lemmy: gif, apng, webp

That's why gifs are still a thing.

The fact that GIF is still a thing in 2023 is baffling

As opposed to what widely supported animated image format?

no offense

Here's a video of John Oliver talking about the problems with the cash bail and here's another one talking about bail reform.

[citation needed]

You can do that now with a heat gun and some very basic tools.

A heat gun is a specialized tool. That's the problem.

But I wasn’t even talking about women’s sports, I was referring to how there are people literally referring to minorities as subhuman and calling for them to be wiped out. Is that not hate enough for you?

Yes, I would consider referring to minorities as subhuman as hate speech. My point is how easily some people throw the phrase 'hate speech' to validate their own views and silence debate.

For someone so concerned that your arguments might be mischaracterized, you sure are quick to make sweeping assumptions about people you don’t know.

99% of the people in here are Reddit users, I know those very well. I created my Reddit account 13 years ago when it was a thriving site where you could have discussions just about any topic, instead of the echo chamber that it is today. That's why I will continue to call them out here, until eventually they take over like they did over Reddit and all dissenting opinions are banned.

I will not ask my fellow lemmy community members to blindly trust me on this.

Ok, I don't trust you.