Religion has always been used as a sales tactic in politics. All you have to do is say "I'm a devote Christian" and you've got an instant base. Politicians have been preying on this for decades. The problem with non-religious people is that you have no instant base with them. You are judged by your actions and your record, rather than your affiliation with some belief system. That is much harder. Politicians go after the low hanging fruit, always. If they want to target the non-religious demographic they're going to have to actually work for it. I'm not holding my breath.
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I just went all-in on Final Fantasy on this sale. Almost all the games are on sale for super cheap. I realized that while Final Fantasy is probably my favorite series of all time, I've never finished one. Not a single one. They've always been so long that I never had the time to get through them. I can fondly remember being a kid playing FF1 on my NES with my brother, drawing maps, and trying to figure the game out. Flash forward to working, getting married, having kids..
But now, I am older (and blessedly single) and I have much more control over my time. I'm going on a Final Fantasy binge, from 6 to 16. I'm stupidly excited to actually complete these games.
People who refuse to do their jobs should be fired. If I work tech support I don't get to tell Windows users I won't help them because I like MacOS better. Do your job, or get another. If your moral conflict is that great, dealing directly with the public is the wrong line of work.
Free speech, as a concept, is the very first thing all fascists turn on people who value freedom. It is that value of freedom that makes the free speech argument so powerful. "How can you love freedom if you don't even let us speak?" they will say with crocodile tears and false humbleness. And then, they will take full advantage of the fairness and moral treatment they are given to promote their brand of hate. You cannot stop fascism by treating it with fairness. They will not give you the same, and the end goal is to destroy the exact thing you are giving to them. Fascism has to be stopped in its tracks, immediately. If you entertain them in any way that allows them to signal with their dog whistles you've already lost. And we've lost a lot, because our leaders aren't even bothering to use dog whistles anymore. They're just stating it outright.
Reading those comments in the threads OP posted reminded me how childish and toxic Reddit is. I haven't touched Reddit since this whole thing began and I've really been enjoying my time here on kbin. People actually communicate here. Those threads are typical Reddit downvote dog piling bullshit. It's so stark to me now after being away from it for awhile.
Most people don't understand what this is or why it's important. And that's not their fault. The kneejerk reaction to having data collected is justified due the amount of companies who abuse it. I mean the amount of stuff you have to turn off (and block the stuff you can't turn off) just to use Windows in a reasonable manner is insane.
I don't fault people for reacting to this news, even though it's not even really news. Developers need to know how people use their products if they want to make them better. And it's opt-in, which is the right way to do it. 1Password certainly knows this and the fact they're trying to be so transparent shows that they know they need to prove what they claim.
1Password has built a lot of trust with it's users over the years. There was some controversy over switching to a subscription model, but realistically $3.50/month to have the most important data you possess hosted securely (and they've been super transparent about that security too) seems like a no-brainer. To my mind, 1Password isn't going to do anything to jeopardize their place in the market when there are free and self-hosted services out there. Probably they want to use their app, which is already the best of any password manager I've ever used, to be the thing that sets them apart from the competition. And to do that, they need to know how people use it to know what could be better.
At this point it's not even about the API changes anymore. Spez would need to be replaced to even consider it. He's shown what he thinks of the community, he's made a tour of all the tech news sites outright lying and misrepresenting how users feel, he's killed several small businesses for app developers, and is currently authorizing the removal of entire teams of mods (and locking their accounts).
All of the problems with Reddit start at the top. No band-aids are going to fix that problem. Spez is the disease, and Reddit is the rot that follows. Twitter can never recover under Elon, and Reddit will continue to decline under Spez.
I'm out. If any Lemmy/kbin admin pulls some shit like Elon or Spez, you just move to another instance. I'm done with the Silicon Valley style "burn it down for the payday" mind set because VC firms have the CEO by the balls.
How do you define "working"?
Right, I think this is what people are misunderstanding. Reddit was never going to change their minds. I was hoping that maybe the API prices were negotiable, or maybe they were going high to start with then going lower later to make them look like the nice guy. But in no way were Reddit just going to say "oopsie, our bad" and go back to how it was.
So why protest, then? Well, exactly what you said: if Spez is going to ruin the site, lets help him do it. Let's create an absolute dumpster fire, let's demonize him in the press, let's spoil the IPO, let's make "fediverse" a household term.
If that is the point of the protest, it's worked with flying colors. Spez is losing his mind, entire mod teams aren't just getting kicked out they're getting out right deleted. More bad press, more people jump ship, fediverse exploding with activity, new Lemmy servers spinning up left and right.
It took Digg about 2 years to shed its users and it'll probably take Reddit longer than that because I think Reddit has become more entrenched than Digg ever was, but I think it'll happen. Twitter is a shell of what it was before Elon, and Reddit will become just as big of a joke. From cultural phenomenon to laughing stock in 2 weeks, because of one guys ego. Same as it ever was.
No one had any illusions about how this was going to go. The point was making them do it. The point was forcing Reddit into a PR nightmare just before their big IPO. The point was giving this platform traction. The fact that this post exists on this platform is proof that the mods succeeded. Sure, Reddit is still huge.. but with entire mod teams being replaced with Spez bootlickers it remains to be seen whether they can maintain what they have, or if this is Digg all over again.
It's hard to predict what will happen, but I'm here, and you're here, so something is happening.
If you upvote a post it will put it in your Favorites. You can access favorites by hovering over the hamburger menu just to the left of your username in the top right corner. To upvote without putting it in your favorites, you can use boost instead. This is essentially how you save posts on kbin.
Sure, but you can't get investors interested in a bot. You can sell them a platform though. Meta will make the flashiest UI the fediverse has ever seen and sell that to investors, while harvesting and selling everything on the fediverse whether you use their platform or not. The only possible way to keep your data out of Meta's hands is to defederate anyone and everything associated with them. I know it sounds tinfoil hat, but honestly evaluate how Facebook does business and then imagine how ripe ActivityPub is for that sort of exploitation. If I used Facebook I have agreed to allow myself to be data mined, but if I use kbin I have not agreed, and yet, Meta can still do it if even one mutual server has agreed (been paid) to federate to both platforms.
Boost is doing two things, traditional upvote in Threads, and posting to Microblog. The way I read it is saying that it's two upvotes is kind of a quick way of saying "one click performs two actions and your reputation points reflect both actions". It doesn't logically track that you can upvote a Thread twice, but it makes sense when you consider boost increases visibility in two different places.