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soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Elon Musk Rebranded Twitter as 'X.' Users Immediately Rejected the ChangeEnglish24·2 years agoOkay, so let’s go down the list. Musk has bought Twitter so he could:
- Suspend the user that was tracking his plane
- “Own the libs”, I mean, he’s definitely a republicunt
- Run out all of the news outlets he deemed not trustworthy
- Unban the orange monkey
- Now rebrand Twitter as a letter because he couldn’t let go of an era that was far, far better off without his existence
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next weekEnglish1·2 years agoYeah, mr.“selfmade” there. /s
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next weekEnglish257·2 years agoEveryone’s ‘okay’ with it until it’s $5 more. Then another $5. Then another $5.
This is what’s happening with all of these streaming services. They’re all doing the gradual boiling water trick. They know if they turned the dial all the way to hot to make the water boiling, metaphorically speaking, that nobody in their right mind would want to jump in. But if they just turn the dial slowly, let the temperature build up by hiking these prices bit by bit, it wouldn’t cause that much of a stir and people will be complacent with it.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•'FUCK SPEZ': Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a ProtestEnglish15·2 years agoThat’s the reddit logic for you.
Make a huge, heavily invested deal about a cause.
Do something that suggests that there’s going to be a follow-up of change.
But actually do nothing about it and resume status-quo, while talking about how there could’ve been change, what can be done and act all defeatist.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•I would have expected Meta to have learned by Elons mistakes but I was just asked if I want to subscribe for a blue tick to verify my account to make my followers feelnsaferEnglish131·2 years agoDoes anyone remember being around people, when you were a kid, that awarded you behavioral stickers that are holographic and had various shapes like stars or animals?
This is exactly what this stupid verification thing is about. OoOOOoO, I’m so special that I got a fucking checkmark next to my name and I actually spend money that could’ve gone to something else worthwhile just to keep it! /s
I feel like we’re in a world where all of these companies are fronted by childish adults that treat all of their userbases like these kinds of kids. But they pretend that they’re adults because they do business things.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like I'm spending less time on social media after switching to Lemmy26·2 years agoI feel like with Lemmy, it’s harkening back to a period of the internet where you can approach it and put it down for later. It’s not yet constructed in a way like all of the other social media platforms, that want to keep you invested, even if you know what to expect. Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter .etc all remind me of the days in the old internet, where you had web portals. These web portals were from MSN, Yahoo and AOL primarily.
They all had things there, to keep you attracted to them. They had their search engines, they had games, they had news, they had weather and many more things. All to keep you in one place and to keep you from venturing out to other places unless you used their search engines before Google became the juggernaut of that.
Social Media today, is designed now, to be like them. Except it’s worse because they’ve got algorithms in place that they extract the data from, i.e you, to pitch to you things that you may be particularly interested in just to keep you invested.
For all of the numbers those social media platforms have, they sure do say a lot of nothing.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•I feel like Fediverse users are nicer to each other and more generous with upvotes than reddit.51·2 years agoFor the most part, yes. But I have noted lately that I do get some snarky people coming in with dishonest and bad faith responses. They’re at least not as rampant as it would’ve been on Reddit. It’s discouraging and demoralizing when you’ve got, what feels like, 100 people downvoting you to hell and 50 of them are swiping at you before deleting their accounts and doing it again because they’re of the tribal mindset and you’ve somehow offended a part of the hive.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Netflix says people just kind of rolled over and accepted the password sharing crackdownEnglish221·2 years agoI haven’t because Netflix hasn’t given me a good solid reason to return to them.
I wouldn’t exactly say everyone is too tired to fight this stuff. Because, a bubble has yet to burst somewhere if it hasn’t already. Netflix just fails to see the bigger picture of this problem and once that bubble bursts, the bubble of financial strains on society, they’ll feel it tenfold.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•People are getting fed up with all the useless tech in their cars — For the first time in 28 years of JD Power’s car owner survey, there is a consecutive year-over-year decline in satisfaction, wit...English3·2 years agoI don’t see why my vehicle has to tell me what song is playing through my IPod, on the screen where the wheel is, that displays more important information like tire PSI and speed. The bigger screen is more than sufficient.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per monthEnglish4·2 years agoI don’t understand what shilling will earn for these people. The corps don’t care about you. They never will and never have. Do these shills think there’s some comfy bonus to be gained if they wave their flag around in support of greedy practices?
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per monthEnglish3·2 years agoPeople who’re gullible. I’m sure Twitch thought the same thing when their subscription service is exactly the same thing. $12 a month, just to remove ads. On top of them assuming you have Prime too, which is $15. So they want you paying $27 to get rid of ads.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Comcast advertising “10G” in hopes to confuse consumers to accept slower speedsEnglish31·2 years agoYeah I’m seeing this stupid 10G thing advertised by Mediacom, too in my area. Like, we’re just entering 5G era here and there’s this…10G? So, you’re meaning to tell me that we’ve been duped into believing 5G all along as being the next best thing but oh wait, did they dig this 10G shit out from some governmental secret program that was hidden for years to provide us this speed to browse with?
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Top Extensions to Make YouTube BearableEnglish6·2 years agoI’ll gladly take YouTube Shorts Block. It is by far, to me, the most unnecessary thing I’ve found on YouTube. So when you watch one of these things, note that you cannot control the volume of them. It’s always mute or not mute. They also have a tendency to snap in place when you’re between videos and in doing so, will restart the video all over again. It is annoying.
I get it’s purpose, but I don’t need it in my face.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Linux has less than half of Linux’s desktop share7·2 years agoNow to add to the distro wars as to ‘which distro is better than which’, we’re gonna have ‘what is real linux and what isn’t real linux’ on top of that eternal debate? Lovely…
soulifix@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Data privacy: how to counter the "I have nothing to hide" argument?English31·2 years agoIf they’ve nothing to hide, then why are they so dodgy when things like lolicon are discussed? Their actions speak louder than their words ever could.
There is an age old practice from olden days of the internet. If you don’t want your nudes out there, if you don’t want your name out there, if you don’t want anything of you out there - you don’t put it out there. Because once it’s out there, you won’t ever know who’ll see it much less, have it. I always assume, that as soon as I upload a picture of myself somewhere on social media, someone would’ve had to have right clicked and saved it already. For what purpose? Who knows, could be a matter of some sick personal collector of people they particularly are fascinated with to potential murderers who’re only lacking my location but should they find me out in the open, they’ll know what I look like and probably kill me. And anything in between.
But so many people on Facebook, complain about how it is that they make new accounts and suddenly are presented with familiar faces to re-add as friends. Whether or not it’s a new e-mail to even a new location, Facebook knows you so well by now, that they’ll pitch you all of whom you’ve had, even if you don’t want them. That defeats the point of wanting a refreshing restart on your life when all you’ve got is reminders.
Black markets also exist that circulate your data. Why would one think that one day, they’re seeing a bunch of transactions that they didn’t authorize all of a sudden? Well, somewhere at somepoint, someone did seize your credit card or bank info and now is running hogwild on it.
They’re not worried yet because it hasn’t happened to them, but boy do the tables turn once people are affected by these experiences.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox nowEnglish118·2 years agoFirefox is only a secondary browser to me these days. I’ve grown tired of it’s performance for years because the Mozilla group would rather keep stuffing unnecessary features into the browser and bring about it’s own ecosystem that it may be collecting data from itself that nobody may know about than fixing that god damn memory leak.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by defaultEnglish1071·2 years agoWe’re living in very interesting times indeed.
So we have one billionaire over in Meta, who’s been making it very known how predatory in practice he is with getting your data and they fundamentally shatter the functionality of all of their platforms.
Then, we have this billionaire here who under a year, has made a total catastrophe of what was once a thriving platform once worth billions of it’s own until he came and acquired it.
And then we have this not-a-billionaire who, is inspired by the self-destruction of the other platforms that they too, must follow suit, in hopes of aspiring success.
I wonder what book they’re all reading from in the ways of business, that says if you suck harder, they’ll mean a net positive.
soulifix@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Advertising revenue in Twitter crashes by 50%English26·2 years agoGuys! Guys! Don’t you get it? He’s “Winning”! /s
And the government continues to give them more money. I’ve figured it out now.
People want better broadband. ISPs promise to broaden internet. Government gives money. ISPs spend a considerable amount of the promise of better broadband in marketing. Doesn’t happen. People still want better broadband. ISPs promise again. Government gives more money. ISPs continue spending on marketing.
Over and over.