There’s some people on here trying to make Lemmy like Reddit was when Reddit’s idea of communicating in 2016 and onwards.

Let’s not let that happen.

And once news stopped covering it, that’s when shit hit the fan.

And they’ll probably be killed and that’ll be that. Yay, China… /s

Ooooo, I’m so not impressed that your only breathing existence is to dig through people’s post history to connect something insulting. Get a life, dude.

The thing people need to remind themselves is that - it’s subjective. You don’t really know how good a product is, unless it’s in your hands or you’ve got hands-on experience. It sucks, because we can’t demo everything and it forces us to sometimes take financial risks.

It just comes down to what you’re looking for out of a product. Is it X-free from Y chemicals? Does it meet a specific standard you’re looking for?

What pisses me off with reviews sometimes is how vague and scarce a review can be. Most of the time it’s people just going “It works! Thanks!” or “It sucks. Don’t buy!”. Like, I can’t evaluate a product on that alone, I need a little more to work with. And a lot of the time too is that people will just complain in a review of something that isn’t even about the product like “it didn’t arrive on time…0 stars”. How is that relevant to the product? Sounds more like a problem with the shipping service, two different things.

You don’t need to always write reviews spanning 10 paragraphs. But christ, just write more than “it sucks, don’t buy”. Why does it suck? What makes it suck? Come on, details.

Yeah but these days, if someone sets up mobile verification or 2FA, it’s not going to be that easy going through forgot password links. Codes will just be sent to a mobile phone or a recovery address that most likely won’t be seen and it’ll force the individual wanting access to go the route of hacking means.

I used to once believe, that a lot of what is on the internet lasts forever. It was a little naive to think, because over the course of my time online, I’ve seen things that I thought would last, ended up not lasting.

I would sometimes cross-search old usernames of mine because I do get around online. I can only now see my past accounts that I’ve made at least 5 years ago. Only 2 accounts that I recall, are 10+ years old when it used to be a bit more. It tells me that things will shut down eventually and it’ll take down many accounts with it.

Unless you are on platforms hosted by Google or Microsoft by using their services, it’s going to last for a long time because they’re a little too big to just simply vanish overnight.

Your best option is to just back up what you can and if you remember to before you die, make arrangements for preservation purposes with instructions to those you’d want in on it.

Lol, nothing of value was lost.

I miss r/Coomer though, it existed to mock and insult people who have a very unhealthy habit of masturbating and sexual addiction (particularly to lolicon). Like, fuck, sex and masturbating isn’t bad on it’s own but it shouldn’t be your god damn identity.

NO! I’ve got something better!

We make the ads guilt you into using ad blockers! Then we pepper your active streaming with ADs every 30 seconds! YOU WILL BUY! YOU WILL CONSOOME!

It’s starting to feel that way. The ISP I use that also serves telephone, only serves VoIP and I’ve had other services before do the same.

Like, why do that when I’ve gotten a Google Voice number for free to use?

Well that ‘protection’ failed you, didn’t it? lol

Funny because THEY were the ones causing the country to go in distress.

I remember TrueGaming having such a stingy requirement, like they wouldn’t have allowed you to post for a month. It was dumb but I understood. It’s no longer there.

Yeah r/gaming is a shitfest, you can’t have an honest engaging conversation about games. It’s always about sensationalist takes, cosplayer females dressing sexually to appeal to the lonely losers who frequent there, rage porn for like 2 weeks, unfunny memes and junk posts like “REMAKE THIS ONE GAME ONLY I REMEMBURH! COME ON, I PRETEND TO UNDERSTAND BUSINESS! THIS WILL RAKE IN SO MUCH MONEY!”

And the same person will pull a two-face and condemn the industry for practicing what they think is bad business, while simultaneously STILL PAYING FOR THE SHIT THEY THINK IS THE PROBLEM!

Hypocritical pieces of shit are what that community is.

No. Fucking. Shit.

Any and I do mean, any conservative based subreddit all now function the same. r/conservatives have turned into a shithole. Hell, even TrueUnpopularOpinion has turned into it’s own shithole because it’s just a foundation for right-wingers to express their radicalized thought processes for all to see.

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Nobody can believe the shit has gone on so far with Russia and Ukraine but here we are 2 years later.

This conflict with Israel is looking to go on for just as long if not longer.

I don’t hate veganism.

I just don’t like the militant and pompous attitude that some vegans seem to possess, that they feel that they have to flaunt their vegan lifestyles on others over.

Yes, go eat as many vegetables as you like, go eat meat alternatives and whatever. You do you, eat what you want. But I don’t want to ever have someone like that coming up to my face and tell me what I’m allowed to eat in their eyes.

$150 is cheap to you? Um, okay then…

It’s already bad enough that Florida is practically a small fraction of this in practice.

And it is something he has spent 4 years trying to do. We’ve seen him cycle through so many people in his administration, that is Trump’s we’re talking here. He’d bring this guy in, he’d last 2 months, then he’d leave. Some people he acquired, lasted just a week and few a day.

It’s because he was wheeling around to find the loyalists he needed that won’t challenge him or feels that they aren’t up to snuff with his requirements. That’s a dangerous precedent to be functioning under as a president. Normally, presidents stick to who they have because they’ve picked carefully and they pick bright minds in the right places. Not a lot of presidents had a lot of great people, but they can say that they were far, far more qualified than anyone Trump has personally assigned.

Even George W. Bush’s administration was better than Trump’s.

But yeah, the 4 years with Trump, will exactly be repeated here in Project 2025. Except, far worse than ever and it’ll all be unchallenged. This isn’t even about trying to play into people’s fears. The 4 years with Trump, he turned this country into his playground. If we have 4 more years of him, he’s going to turn it into his amusement park.

And no I don’t want to hear arguments from people going like “well, it’s only 4 years of him and once it’s over, he can’t run again!”. How the fuck would you know? Has anyone not, by now, seen how he behaves towards laws and rules? He acts like none of those exist to him but exist for others. If impeaching the bastard twice didn’t do anything, do you think he’s going to abide by term limit rules? He might just override that and make himself dictator for the rest of his life.