This just means they’re a struggling company who needs to cut headcount and want to do it without paying severance

Pretty sure youtube is revenue generating on its own now. Youtube doesn’t work as a loss leader because it’s so different from all other products.

at this rate, in 20 years some asshole capitalist will figure out how to monetize air as a subscription service and we’ll all be living in a true dystopia

More government intervention in markets, because that’s what Republicans stand f- oh wait, er…

shadowbanning is a totally different issue that’s existed for a long time though.

1. Rather than fighting against ad-tech , they’re caving. If someone comes into your house to punch you and rob you everyday, do you say “let’s find a solution that we’re both happy with, how about you rob me and don’t punch me?”

2. We could have argued about how privacy-protecting this is, and whether it will actually prevent further intrusive tracking. Perhaps I might be persuaded to keep it. But the fact that I wasn’t informed about being opted in when upgrading, and the fact that the CTO is doubling down on “users are too stupid to understand this”, means they’ve lost any trust and/or willingness for me to listen to them. Turning this off for good.

that’s fine for a small discord group but it doesn’t scale. you can’t be that active in moderating millions of conversations.

downvotes (and hiding downvoted comments) is a community-driven way of signaling unacceptable behavior. it largely works, except in echo chambers.

I mean IBM is still traded but it’s a shadow if it’s former self

Don’t don’t be evil

I don’t really remember what the names of Google apps are anymore. I just know there’s an app I can use to tap to pay, and I have a custom icon for that app (since all of Googles app icons are so similar it’s confusing).

Once they deprecate one app and move to the next, I’ll just change the icon on that.

“It’s your responsibility to make sure our products aren’t nonsense. All we want to do is to make money off you regardless.”

Should companies work on improving access to services and making sure paying consumers get a better experience?

Nah, let’s spend more money paying lawyers to go after a few people, that’ll show em.

i mean, my phrasing sounded contradictory but the thought process is logical lol

Apparently smaller tech firms are loving office mandates, because it allows them to hire talent that they normally would not have access to at their budget.

didn’t phrase that well, what I meant was when I have a conversation on lemmy I don’t want to respond to a beehaw post that less than half the lemmy population can see.

didn’t phrase that well, what I meant was when I have a conversation on lemmy I don’t want to respond to a beehaw post that less than half the lemmy population can see.

didn’t phrase that well, what I meant was when I have a conversation on lemmy I don’t want to respond to a beehaw post that less than half the lemmy population can see.

Beehaw has pretty good conversation. I enjoy my discussions on their communities. It also has an extremely low bar for defederation – it’s defederated with even lemmy.world. I don’t like that, would not use that as my home instance.

Haha that’s an instance I haven’t heard about in a while… I personally blocked it because I want to talk to everyone on lemmy, not just half the population when I have a conversation on lemmy I don’t want to respond to a post that less than half the lemmy population can see, and they’ve defederated from the largest instances.

And i guess that’s the good thing about the lemmyverse - you decide what level of control you want.

bass-ackwards

is this how kids say ass-backwards now, or is this an attempt to avoid the (nonexistent) lemmy profanity filters lol

they’re all owned by match.com anyway.