Is this the case everywhere?

I’ll blame both.

The users are willfully ignorant.

No, it’s not “all or nothing.” You people keep pretending that’s what I’m arguing for because you don’t want to acknowledge your own contribution to the problem. The person I was replying was trying to argue ‘survival,’ and now here you are moving the goalposts to ‘wants.’

They keep conflating needs with wants, so whoever takes their wants away is immediately a bad person.

They don’t need more money. As soon as they get more, they’re going to spend more on more dumb shit while there are still starving children on the planet.

but that doesn’t really solve the bigger issue

It does if enough people do it.

we shouldn’t have to resort to that in the first place.

Correct, but we don’t live in a perfect world.

Consumerism.

I feel bad for the people that get herded by shills.

🤦

Depending on the terms and jurisdiction, there may be penalties for not honoring a contractual agreement.

Good luck collecting a check for $0.72 from the class action lawsuit. A fraction of a percentage from their profits.

This would be an issue of enforcement.

Oh fuck off with this ‘survive’ nonsense.

Literally every bitch I know in America complaining about “not having enough money” spends it like a goddamn idiot.

Doordash every day. Subscriptions out the wah-zoo for things they can be getting for free.

You’d better believe most of them are going to be buying a switch 2 instead of emulating.

Oh, and the thought of moving somewhere cheaper? Forget about it. It’s “not good enough” for them.

No, they get no sympathy from me. They all deserve what’s coming to them and I hope it hits hard.

It’s easier to fight with each other than it is to fight our puppet-masters.

You could just say Linux, lol.

We gotta stop upvoting distro-shilling.

Absolutely no sympathy from me.

They like the abuse and attack anyone who doesn’t.

You’ve never heard of a contract?

Correct.

This is just bullshit being said so the owners can make more money.

Every single person you see who believes it and perpetuates it is a useful idiot.

Honestly, phone users ruined a generation of computing.

None of this shit was an issue when there was a barrier to entry to using the internet.

We need to stay far away from these restrictive platforms.

They don’t care about their own rules. They will quietly ban anything that threatens their dominance, and if there isn’t sufficient backlash then it will stay banned. (kind of like lemmy moderators)

The same thing happened to AdNauseam, an adblocker that blocks ads in addition to clicking them so advertisers get fucked over and website owners can still get paid. Google removed it years ago without justifiable reason, and because there was no significant pushback it stayed removed. It’s what made me switch to Firefox. Seeing how chrome recently killed adblockers altogether, I’m glad I made the switch sooner rather than later.

Bag holders.

You know, lemmy feels a lot like the old internet at least in the quality of its users and discussion.

The only problem is the censorship, but that should be ironed out over time as the abusive mods get their communities replaced with better ones.

Nothing, really.

We’re the only ones stopping ourselves. The 90s and everything that made is ‘great’ is still here, we just choose not to use it.

Yeah, the odds are really stacked against businesses when it comes to sharing information.

The fact they’ve been able to keep such a stranglehold on it for so long is really a testament to how much excess power they have over our societies.

Future generations are laughing at us, and rightfully so.

Err… you think you’re not being tracked when you spend money?

Wow.