It's important to note how we got here. In old English man just meant human. Wereman meant male and wifman meant female. Over time that "were" prefix got dropped and man now means male but the ambiguous meaning of humankind stuck around. In fact "human" comes from old french "of man", again the non-gendered use of the word man.
The point is to fix all these problems we just have to bring back the "were". The progressive werewolves are way ahead of us on this issue.
Eh, when you're glitching hardware preboot and attacking root-of-trust it's very possibly unpatchable. Just ask Nintendo.
Good news. Anything but fossil fuels at this point.
If you use a private website for your social media we just loop back to where we are right now in a few years. Even if it seems great now there will eventually be enshittification.
That's me. Besides the ads/promotion/tracking shit pre-elon Twitter was doing pretty much exactly what I want from it. It was mostly for the parasocial relationships not for keeping up with actual friends. I'd get news and announcements straight from the source quickly and even with a verified checkmark to help ensure I wasn't getting trolled. Now it's trash.
Vine had vines which was kind of unique. Didn't have quite the reach of twitter though and died by twitter's hand.
If google really does away with adblockers I expect many more will follow. I'm not even against unobtrusive ads but the few times I've been away from my own pihole / ublock browser setup and rawdogged the internet those ads were next level obnoxious. I can't live like that.
Yup Twitter was for following people and Reddit was for following topics. Lemmy with all the new users is pretty much viable for big topics now but Mastodon doesn't magically have all the people I want to follow just because it's a better format.
It still too soon to tell honestly. The major bump of this policy is a one time surge of all the built up password-sharers but it's likely not going to be huge swing to their growth long term.
And then these new subscribers, are they going to stick around? A common scenario might be someone cutoff midway through a series just subscribing for a couple months to finish them off.
And for the same reason I would expect new subs from the policy would happen quickly while unsubs might be delayed. The main account holders would likely finish off their series and take time deciding on their new streaming service before outright cancelling.
And all of this just ruffles feathers and makes the service a bit less valuable right when real competition is heating up.
A lot of people assume the US is just giving money mostly like cash too when a majority is really military equipment/training. It's kind of a win for the US because it supports their political goals in the region, gives them a chance to test weapon systems in real conditions, replace these weapons with more modern and advanced versions for the US military, and the money "paid" for these systems also mostly stays in the US economy anyway.
And a lot of the users Reddit decided to alienate are mods...Aka the ones who put in the effort to grow their subs in the first place...
Voat was the worst of Reddit while this exodus has the chance to be the best of Reddit.
White light has red in it. Cyan does not. We fatigue blue and green cones everywhere but the white can, and we only stimulate the red cones on the white can. The result is it looks red.