[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

A shady company that I had to fight tooth and nail to get my money back after literal years of false promises and moving goal posts. They've burned any respected reputation they had.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago

Boycotts work in luxury markets with strong competition. Necessity markets with highly concentrated monopolies? No chance. Without legislation to protect consumers, they are powerless to defend themselves against the greed and exploitation of corporate interests.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

About time WotC unionised and spun-out of Hasbro.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

Related to the recent reddit mobile site update that straight up breaks the website perhaps? (Cant scroll, can’t interact)

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

Others did it and faced no consequences. No government step-in, no mass customer loss. When there are no consequences for greedy monopolistic behaviours, greedy monopolies act greedily. Welcome to market capitalism without proper regulation.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago

Naming rights aside, I doubt another shitty burger chain will see success in Aus. If you want a shitty burger, we got that covered in almost every town and suburb. Aussie typically want higher quality fast food.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 2 years ago

Voyager is the apollo replacement, it rocks!

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Nice to see a new dudeist community pop up in addition to [email protected] . Take 'er easy!

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

I don't understand why some users really want a native app? A webapp is better in almost everyway. You don't need to build and maintain multiple pieces of software, it just works across multiple devices and configurations. You don't have to install and give permissions to yet another piece of software on your device, creating yet another vulnerability. It's like asking for betamax when DVDs exist. What's a benefit of doing so, just that in comes up in the app store when searching?

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Are there any good quality, open-source or community-driven alternatives to goodreads? Something which offers the same discoverability service for similar or related books, including the ability to wishlist and review?

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(Linux Mint) Switched to an AMD graphics card recently and ran “sudo apt remove --purge” on all ^nvidia* and ^libnvidia* packages. Unfortunately, one package (libnvidia-compute-470) seems to not get the message and won’t remove itself. Quick search around the internet on solutions have not resolved the issue yet. Wondering if anyone had any ideas how to manually remove this package? Cheers!

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Noticed they are quite a large server with similar rules to ours (Be respectful, no bigotry, no porn, etc). Looking at their front page, it seems pretty tame, just anti-capitalist memes and discussion. Is there a reason we have blocked them?

[-] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

An important reminder of the right play here. If we are to keep the fediverse out of the hands of enshitification, we need to stay away from letting corporates play the game. Don’t federate.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

I am hopeful that a sizable chunk of people are smart enough to see the writing on the wall with corporate owned media and will inevitably follow to the non-corporate-controlled places (like the fediverse model). The danger will be the model falling over as the temptation to centralise, control, and exploit becomes higher. The lemmy model only works if there isn't a dominate server with a large proportion of content right? What happens if lemmy.world gets big then just decides to de-federate? It's just reddit all over again.

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One of the hurdles to change for users switching from reddit to a federated platform is less content. The logic goes: “smaller community, less content, I can see i’m missing out on stuff over there so I’m not going to switch away”.

One potential solution to this would be automated cross-posting, using bots or similar. Obviously there are cons to this approach, which we are all likely aware of.

What are your thoughts on focusing efforts in this direction to drive faster user growth? Good because it will drive more users to consider jumping ship given that it reduces FOMO? Bad because it makes the place look less community spirited and genuine and different?

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Apologies in advance, newbie here.

I've encountered an issue when trying to subscribe to new communities, wondering if I'm doing something wrong or something is broken. The workflow seems to be as follows:

  1. User goes to Aussie Zone (AZ) community browser and searches for desired communities to join (either by keyword search filtered by communities, or something like using Lemmy Explorer to search and find the exact community address to search).

  2. User browses to that community from AZ instance (because there's no direct "subscribe" button in the search page)

  3. User clicks the "Subscribe" button in the top right dialog box for that community.

My problem in this flow (which has worked for some communities, but not many) is that when browsing to the community and going to find the subscribe button, in most cases it's simply just text saying 'subscribe' with no link/button. Is this just a bug, is there a delay in syncing that you have to wait for, or does this indicate the community is not federated with AZ?

Thanks!

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