Yep, and Google does the same shit.

On Pixel phones you have the search bar at the bottom, which you cannot remove, replace, resize, or configure.

In the EU you can configure it to change your default search engine. In North America you cannot, and are forced to use Google.

And on Google forums anyone who complains gets attacked by a wave of simps saying "Then just don't buy a pixel then, go somewhere else if you don't like it".

So tired of this shit.

As is typical for MAGAs

They hallucinate more than LLMs

Being a non-voter has always benefited Republicans over the last few decades.

This is why campaigns to suppress and reduce the voting population or the ability for people to vote are so effective for republicans. When you reduce the number of voters Republicans win, there is a bias towards Republicans being more willing to go out and vote and Democrats being less willing to.

Afaik the "cat h line" of this is true isn't it?

I'm going to guess this is a tactic used to push Democrats away from voting by poisoning the well.

Acting like Democrats reaching out in order to spoil the image and make actual communication less effective.

And based on the comments in this thread it obviously works, folks fall for this hook line and sinker.

Mhm, tasty anti intellectualism.

Yeah, the post said it right at the end. America.

Seriously and it's a hot topic so it's going to get this sort of attention.

Let it sit for a while and it'll become normalized and these sort of antics will die off.

Just let people express themselves as long as it's not dangerous holy crap.

I mean, that's not surprising though is it? If a FOSS tool I made has an additional feature that requires my own backend to support, then there has to be a backend to support it.

The FE that uses it is still FOSS, and one could always build their own API to the specs outlined by the client.

They could OSS their server side code ofc, that'd be cool. But that also takes sometimes double the effort to do well, and keep custom tweaks and changes either separate and proprietary, or build out a complex way for them to be dynamically injected. So I don't really blame them on that one tbh.

Remember, this is not only the kind of shit that would get proposed but would be the kind of shit that would pass in a future Republican controlled state with Fuhrer Trump at the helm.

It sounds ridiculous and insane now, but remember, there are representatives that actually believe in this, and don't think it's rhetoric.

Their voter base as well would happily see "the other" carted off, in good fascist fashion.

Can you list some of those, I'm curious.

I thought I explained that pretty well no?

If you had a grain of rice that tasted unimaginably, unmitigably, good. The highest quality grain of rice ever seen in the world, in all of history.

It will not change the flavor of 30k bowls of rice.

We're talking an absolutely tiny amount of users here. And we shouldn't delude ourselves over it, circle jerking for being the "higher society". Reddit didn't change because we left, the number of users on Reddit change more on a daily basis than 5 Lemmy's.

That said, the smaller niche subs definitely saw some hits. I won't deny that. However, by definition, a small number of users leaving from small subs isn't a "gotcha" moment for what I've stated. That's is, almost by definition, what would be expected.

The discussions here are of higher quality for sure. But you'll still notice that in many threads it's almost indistinguishable from Reddit in many ways.

I last did this math a while back so let me redo it.

Lemmy != The fediverse. Lemmy is fairly small with 45k monthly active users. https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy

Reddit has 430 million monthly active users (70m daily) according to their disclosures for IPO.

So a 0.000104 multiple. Or 0.01% a little less than 2x my previous calculation. So, still a tiny number.

I think you're grossly overestimating

Lemmy shaved off 0.0057% of reddit users. An actual inconsequential number.

This would be like you losing a grand total of 1 grain of rice, from ~35,000 rice bowls.

Even if that was the best tasting grain of rice of the whole bunch, you wouldn't notice.

For real, we need unions. It's a slow boil now, knowledge workers are the next factory workers.

Soon to be displaced as corporations gobble up another chunk of worker wealth.

... Contacting someone makes you an: "unhinged fucking freak who does not respect personal boundaries"?

More people need to go touch grass, this is insane.

It's really disingenuous to mud sling people with a different view by implying they themselves don't exist/are astroturfing/are bots.

I'm a real human who decided to use their service for kicks and actually like some of the benefits and control over the results compared to other search engines.

Especially when I'm doing research, which is usually half of all my time searching anyways.

Enough that I decided to pay for the service. I'm happy with it and want to share that happiness with others. Are you saying that because I liked a service that I can't seem to get anywhere else I'm now the bad guy? Because I like something and want to share it with others, that's bad?

Is the alternative that you might prefer to be corporate astroturfing instead of organic discussion and growth? Like, really, seriously, what's the alternative here if people talking about and sharing something they like is not acceptable?

That's.... Not how internet infrastructure works.

And cables are not in straight lines between you and the destination.

The US has an ideal, chosen, location for long-term mass storage.

Unfortunately State politics and news fear mongering are preventing it from being developed and utilized.

Just more footgunning.

I'm in my house right now with a perfectly working thermostat that's 70 years old.

And given the mechanism of action it will continue working in another 70 years.

16 years for hardware used inside of homes is a ridiculously, absurdly, short lifetime. Even for a vehicle that would be pushing the edge of "too short".

That said 16-year-old software is not that old. If it's built using sane language choices it should actually be functioning and modern today.

Imagine not realizing that people have to work for a living... Or that adult mental health is at an all time low. Or that social media manipulation affects people who are parents as well as their kids.

Similarly just kicking the problem down the road like you're doing doesn't actually solve it. It just inhibits solutions and contributes to the problem.

So in this instance people that think like your comment states actually are indirectly part of the problem. Which is ironic.