Religion has always been used as a sales tactic in politics. All you have to do is say "I'm a devote Christian" and you've got an instant base. Politicians have been preying on this for decades. The problem with non-religious people is that you have no instant base with them. You are judged by your actions and your record, rather than your affiliation with some belief system. That is much harder. Politicians go after the low hanging fruit, always. If they want to target the non-religious demographic they're going to have to actually work for it. I'm not holding my breath.
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I just went all-in on Final Fantasy on this sale. Almost all the games are on sale for super cheap. I realized that while Final Fantasy is probably my favorite series of all time, I've never finished one. Not a single one. They've always been so long that I never had the time to get through them. I can fondly remember being a kid playing FF1 on my NES with my brother, drawing maps, and trying to figure the game out. Flash forward to working, getting married, having kids..
But now, I am older (and blessedly single) and I have much more control over my time. I'm going on a Final Fantasy binge, from 6 to 16. I'm stupidly excited to actually complete these games.
People who refuse to do their jobs should be fired. If I work tech support I don't get to tell Windows users I won't help them because I like MacOS better. Do your job, or get another. If your moral conflict is that great, dealing directly with the public is the wrong line of work.
Free speech, as a concept, is the very first thing all fascists turn on people who value freedom. It is that value of freedom that makes the free speech argument so powerful. "How can you love freedom if you don't even let us speak?" they will say with crocodile tears and false humbleness. And then, they will take full advantage of the fairness and moral treatment they are given to promote their brand of hate. You cannot stop fascism by treating it with fairness. They will not give you the same, and the end goal is to destroy the exact thing you are giving to them. Fascism has to be stopped in its tracks, immediately. If you entertain them in any way that allows them to signal with their dog whistles you've already lost. And we've lost a lot, because our leaders aren't even bothering to use dog whistles anymore. They're just stating it outright.
Reading those comments in the threads OP posted reminded me how childish and toxic Reddit is. I haven't touched Reddit since this whole thing began and I've really been enjoying my time here on kbin. People actually communicate here. Those threads are typical Reddit downvote dog piling bullshit. It's so stark to me now after being away from it for awhile.
Most people don't understand what this is or why it's important. And that's not their fault. The kneejerk reaction to having data collected is justified due the amount of companies who abuse it. I mean the amount of stuff you have to turn off (and block the stuff you can't turn off) just to use Windows in a reasonable manner is insane.
I don't fault people for reacting to this news, even though it's not even really news. Developers need to know how people use their products if they want to make them better. And it's opt-in, which is the right way to do it. 1Password certainly knows this and the fact they're trying to be so transparent shows that they know they need to prove what they claim.
1Password has built a lot of trust with it's users over the years. There was some controversy over switching to a subscription model, but realistically $3.50/month to have the most important data you possess hosted securely (and they've been super transparent about that security too) seems like a no-brainer. To my mind, 1Password isn't going to do anything to jeopardize their place in the market when there are free and self-hosted services out there. Probably they want to use their app, which is already the best of any password manager I've ever used, to be the thing that sets them apart from the competition. And to do that, they need to know how people use it to know what could be better.
At this point it's not even about the API changes anymore. Spez would need to be replaced to even consider it. He's shown what he thinks of the community, he's made a tour of all the tech news sites outright lying and misrepresenting how users feel, he's killed several small businesses for app developers, and is currently authorizing the removal of entire teams of mods (and locking their accounts).
All of the problems with Reddit start at the top. No band-aids are going to fix that problem. Spez is the disease, and Reddit is the rot that follows. Twitter can never recover under Elon, and Reddit will continue to decline under Spez.
I'm out. If any Lemmy/kbin admin pulls some shit like Elon or Spez, you just move to another instance. I'm done with the Silicon Valley style "burn it down for the payday" mind set because VC firms have the CEO by the balls.
How do you define "working"?
Right, I think this is what people are misunderstanding. Reddit was never going to change their minds. I was hoping that maybe the API prices were negotiable, or maybe they were going high to start with then going lower later to make them look like the nice guy. But in no way were Reddit just going to say "oopsie, our bad" and go back to how it was.
So why protest, then? Well, exactly what you said: if Spez is going to ruin the site, lets help him do it. Let's create an absolute dumpster fire, let's demonize him in the press, let's spoil the IPO, let's make "fediverse" a household term.
If that is the point of the protest, it's worked with flying colors. Spez is losing his mind, entire mod teams aren't just getting kicked out they're getting out right deleted. More bad press, more people jump ship, fediverse exploding with activity, new Lemmy servers spinning up left and right.
It took Digg about 2 years to shed its users and it'll probably take Reddit longer than that because I think Reddit has become more entrenched than Digg ever was, but I think it'll happen. Twitter is a shell of what it was before Elon, and Reddit will become just as big of a joke. From cultural phenomenon to laughing stock in 2 weeks, because of one guys ego. Same as it ever was.
No one had any illusions about how this was going to go. The point was making them do it. The point was forcing Reddit into a PR nightmare just before their big IPO. The point was giving this platform traction. The fact that this post exists on this platform is proof that the mods succeeded. Sure, Reddit is still huge.. but with entire mod teams being replaced with Spez bootlickers it remains to be seen whether they can maintain what they have, or if this is Digg all over again.
It's hard to predict what will happen, but I'm here, and you're here, so something is happening.
The reason is because of 5 years of nonstop propaganda from the GOP and tax payer funded expedition into Hunter Biden (the probe began in 2018). And after all that talk, all the lies and misinformation, all of your money they spent in their retaliatory attack on Hunter Biden, they come up with two misdemeanor tax counts and a minor gun charge. Yeah, sure. He did it, he deserves whatever the consequences are for it. But what was uncovered was not worth the amount of time and money, and lets face it, propaganda, the GOP put into it. I promise they spent more money trying to uncover something, anything, Hunter did than the $100,000 he owes the IRS.
So for me it's not so much that Hunter doesn't deserve to be charged, it's the means by which the charges we filed and the extreme amount of wasted time and money and poisoning the well the GOP has done to arrive as such minor charges.
That's a fair point that I didn't consider - saving something you've downvoted. It's not something I've ever done and it didn't even cross my mind. You're right that there isn't a specific save function, and the Favorites feature is limited in this case. Also the boosts button in my profile is broken (gives me an error) so I can't keep track of what I've boosted, currently.
Having a separate space that isn't tied to either of this would be more ideal. I've mostly been using upvotes sparingly, and boosts more liberally, in order to keep my Favorites clean. I understand boosting ties a thread publicly to my username so there may be things you'd want to upvote but not have associated with you to the general public, but in that case your Favorites would get messy.
Oh, this overlay is fantastic. It reminds me of how Feedly integrates with Reddit. You'd get an overlay very similar to this where you can read the post content, article, or be funneled to Reddit to make comments. Very neat and tidy. Feedly is what I missed most about quitting Reddit. Feedly doesn't have this sort of integration with Lemmy (yet), it just functions like a simple, but messy, RSS reader. This project makes me feel right at home and is such a quick and clean way to interact with Lemmy. Being able to post comments right in the overlay itself is even better than the Feedly/Reddit combo, too. Oh, and also the style for how comments are threaded is highly readable, it takes zero effort to understand or collapse comment chains.
I've mostly favored kbin (with a userscript) because I found it much easier to read and interact with than Lemmy, but your project is even better still.