And people continue to mock cryptocurrencies.
And rightfully so. They've demonstrated their lack of worth as an actual medium of trade, and have wasted an alarming amount of electricity, while pumping an unconscionable amount of carbon into the atmosphere for jack-fucking-shit.
By "better", I don't necessarily mean of higher quality. Those dark patterns are often features from the point of view of the average user. Without them, they can feel lost, and they spurned their platforms of choice until they had them.
Wild how they didn't write or publish this under the Ford or Tory mayoralships, eh? Infrastructure decay just hit out of the blue this year, for some reason.
The lessons from Twitter are clear: most people will not leave bad social media without a better replacement. They're attached to their history, and attached to their routine. It getting worse does not change that.
Mastodon didn't scratch the Twitter users' itches, and it doesn't look like Lemmy will scratch Reddit users'. These aren[t the people that populated the Internet 20 years ago.
They're the people who never would have touched it, because it was too technical, had too high a barrier of entry, and saw it as niche.
It's time to stop focusing on whether Reddit succeeds or fails. They're not going to fail. Instead, it's time to make an internet of niches again, for ourselves, without the Twitter and Reddit users.
Their points aren't valid, though. The glasses are predominantly paper, and they're reusable. And the eclipse is a significant natural and cultural event that is also dangerous.
Their argument boils down to "buying anything is bad", and that is an empty, cynical stance that is fueled entirely by smug self-satisfaction, not concern for the environment.
They can do more to help by unplugging their shit and reducing the global electrical usage.
Stop wasting precious electricity.
Please, do watch the eclipse without them, then.
Never had an issue with them, except for the systematic disabling of democracy in the name of a few dollars more.
Yup. It was really frustrating, too, because it's pretty clear that they wanted to do a season about trauma, regrets, and coming to terms with loss and life, but they stuck a random existential threat on top of it.
It says the same thing about TERF. When people find accurate, clinically boring descriptions of themselves offensive, it's not the term that's at fault.
They were actually mostly programmed by Gen Xers.
Speak for your own location.
Also, "crypto works as a functional currency, which can be demonstrated by how you need to sell it for cash in order actually buy anything with it" isn't the argument you think it is.