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That’s what post-its are for!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOkI2CmD2D8

In a row?!

If all those downloads were from 2005 to 2015, and there’s only been a few hundred in the last nine years, that would mean the popularity has declined.

But we don’t know that. We don’t know if the downloads have increased, decreased, or stayed the same based on the proffered numbers. We only know a flat number from the last twenty years.

Thats the point theyre making, not that its unequivocally unpopular now.

Also you’re about three billion shy of one download for everyone on earth.

A button down shirt and jeans, according to Justin Long.

Momentum, I think. Lots of people who have yahoo email addresses (possibly from when they had integrated ISP emails, do they still have that?) and don’t want to switch.

I wouldn’t want this lawsuit to discourage quality web design.

What does that have to do with Meta?

Its not like they were dropped into the system and just made the best of their situation. The capital class created this system.

Its not like they’re trying to change it for the better, they’re willfully encouraging the enshittification of the systems they created.

Nothing, someone will make this joke before they ever get a chance.

“As teens start doing homework, parents ask: is this freedom or danger?”

People need to start pulling themselves across the ground like slugs, as god intended.

It’s coined as the “Helen Lovejoy Syndrome” after a Simpson’s episode from the nineties.

I’m sure he has an end-game.

It’s everything up to that point where he’s completely at a loss.

The early 2000s was before streaming was ever a thing. Netflix was still sending DVDs in the mail en masse.

Hobbies are often worthwhile. Maybe not financially, but often psychologically.

Because there’s no one broad brush one can paint everything with to solve all issues. It takes a variety of approaches to solve the variety of problems that occur in the world.

Those running instances are people too, and they create their instance for a purpose. If that purpose is to let people go hog wild, including bigots and authoritarians, then they can refuse to do any defederating (or moderating, I suppose, if it’s solely the responsibility of the user to curate content as you purport). The thing is… that doesn’t make an instance particularly palatable to people who dislike when other people are dipshits around them. And, rather than get into prolonged troll-baiting contests, they decide to just go somewhere better… all that leaves is the bigots and authoritarians… and the people who feed their need for attention by arguing with them.

I don’t believe cutting everyone out who says something you object to, even to the smallest degree, is a good solution. Often people are teetering on the edge of extremism, and just need a rational counterpoint to help them tip the right way… but sometimes you just need to remove toxicity from your life. When it comes to running instances, you can either take the laissez faire approach and let people do whatever they want… and welcome the extremists that draws in. Or you can take a more active, albeit gentle, hand. So you promote a place worthy of discussion and fun.

Don’t defederate enough and people will switch to a less objectionable instance.

It’s a balancing act.

The only lose on their own terms. That meaning they don’t make quite as much money as they used to. It’s still money hand over fist.