FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 days ago:
Agreements like that are not enforceable, and yeh they’re a red flag for sure.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Actually fit people sweat more than unfit people.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 3 days ago:
I appreciate the reply, and I’m not out to pick a fight either :).
I think for the foreseeable future it’s just going to be rinse and repeat of imgur, as an example. A service is created to fit a need/desire, with good intentions of being free and bloat-free, but then starts showing ads and offering paid subscriptions, and takes investor money at which point you know it’s only a matter of time before it’s where we are now with imgur. It’s just the nature of popular services unfortunately - the cost to host them is astronomical, and I am pretty sure that 99% that even a rough estimate of what people in here think it costs is probably off by a factor of 1000x or more. Hosting anything that is used by thousands of people, especially when it involves videos and pictures.
Unless there is some revolution in internet speeds/bandwidth/etc there’s just no getting around this.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 3 days ago:
The very nature of discussion boards mean that they’re always going to centralise discussion eventually, no matter how decentralised the user base is.
No one wants to have 25 different small tech communities that all post the same article, so they go to the one that has the most users. It took all of a week after the Reddit exodus for a few fediverse instances to become the clear centralised ones.
Decentralisation of user accounts is irrelevant and almost pointless when all of the discussion is centralised on one main instance. The only real way it can be decentralised in a way that matters is if every /technology (for example) essentially merge together and all instantly sync all comments and threads from all instances in real time, with automatic addition of new instances whenever they start a similar community. This brings many, many challenges though.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 3 days ago:
The same will happen with fediverse instances if they ever get big enough………
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
I’m sure you are. Just like last time. See you next week ;).
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 4 days ago:
The reality is that the bigger a website/service gets, the more money it costs to run. Something like imgur especially would cost absurd amounts of money to run. If it can’t be monetised then it will die. The same thing will happen to any competitors that pop up claiming to be better - it’s just the nature of business. Hosting and bandwidth and hardware and employees aren’t free.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 4 days ago:
The term “social media site” is used very loosely these days. Allow comments on anything? Congrats, you’re a social media site!
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 4 days ago:
I’m sure this will work this time, unlike when likely the same people did the same thing with reddit lol.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
Firstly you’re entire premise depends on there undoubtedly being a genocide, despite that not being an established fact.
Secondly, you’re basically saying any company that provides products or services to a country that anyone accuses of a genocide is complicit and helping the genocide happen? That’s ridiculous and quite frankly idiotic.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
You care enough to follow me around and reply to me apparently :)
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
So because they had something to do with it, makes no difference.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
Microsoft aren’t “aiding genocide” ffs. Some protesters feelings don’t mean they can just break whatever rules they want.
- Comment on Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default 4 days ago:
Cool, basically zero chance of people losing documents that they were working on. I’m sure no one will take issue with this helpful feature.
Oh, I forgot where I am.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing off the Mobile Plans app in Windows 4 days ago:
Makes sense having it directly in the settings app. Good idea.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
They broke into the president of Microsofts office. Do you think that they shouldn’t be fired for doing that? You can’t just do whatever you want in the name of “protest”.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 4 days ago:
Missing context: They broke into the President of Microsoft’s office. Of course they were fired lol
- Comment on Microsoft fires 2 employees after they broke into president's office 4 days ago:
How did anyone even think this was newsworthy?
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 6 days ago:
People with alzheimers don’t know they have alzheimers. That’s kinda the whole issue of the disease.
- Comment on Why don't they have simpler names for brain disorders, where perhaps even the person suffering the disorder might be able to remember the term themself? 6 days ago:
I’ve literally never heard anyone say dementia incorrectly.
- Comment on Did a teenager actually just die from eating raw noodles? 6 days ago:
You can die from anything if it blocks up your organs. Non-event.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I don’t have much energy to do things outside of work
Nothing else you said matters apart from this. You can’t really make friends when you refuse to do anything where you would meet people or turn colleagues into friends.
- Comment on Do you read analog clocks to the exact minute? How do you do this quickly? 1 week ago:
Well this is certainly a question I never thought I’d read on the internet.
The school systems need an overhaul.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
Just no empathy for women, only for men.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
My favourite part about this is how you think I’ll care about you intentionally “misgendering” me 🤣
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
I think you missed the sarcasm in my words, and the point I was making. Your use of that gif however is hilarious, because you unironically thought what I was saying was serious.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
Do you actually think people are scared of trans people?
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
Lia Thomas was never a bad swimmer.
Compared to other competitive swimmers, yes, he was. 500th ranked in just the USA college system means you’re never getting anywhere close to being a professional swimmer competing at world championships or the olympics. Never. Not even close.
She didn’t set records.
Incorrect.
Given that you don’t even have the decency to use the correct pronouns, kindly go fuck yourself conservacuck.
Grow up.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
What a ridiculous thing to say. People have been able to look at another person forever and correctly say what sex they are and be right 99.9999999% of the time. The only times people were wrong were when they had a very specific DSD. Those people are the exception to the rule of being able to tell sex simply by looking.
You’re basically saying that what someone is biologically is irrelevant, what they look like is what determines their sex. That is so incredibly sexist that it’s hard to even believe anyone could believe it, yet here you are.
- Comment on A real question about trans athletes and records 1 week ago:
It started as isolated incidents, but it is now a huge issue because the current wave of people identifying as trans has all the makings of a social contagion and it’s spreading like wildfire.
With things like these you have to stop them before they become a massive problem. Why wait until it becomes a gigantic issue when it’s clear that it will already?