I don’t think I am actually.

I think it’s almost impossible to miss every single one of these all the time. I have worked with the extremely poor, and watched documentaries of people in third world countries regularly. Most people even those who are literal third world slaves (indebted for life) can still regularly enjoy at least 2 of these things regularly.

I’m not saying it’s not shit and that ideally everyone should experience all of them, but it’s unrealistically cynical and nihilistic to think everyone poor is just miserable and doesn’t enjoy anything.

People are missing the forest for the trees. These are luxuries yes, but missing every single one of them is an extreme poverty of life as it’d be extremely hard to do.

Yeah I’ve lived out of home for close to 2 decades.

I think people here are being extremely dramatic if they say they never are able to sleep in or never have a chance to hear birds singing though, or to watch a sunset. That is absolute hyperbolic bullshit.

Unless this post is about doing it every day (which it isn’t), then everyone gets to enjoy these luxuries at least semi-regularly.

We’re talking about a very small amount of people who have to work multiple jobs 7 days a week, with many more poor people who don’t do that.

And you didn’t cover the birds singing, which you can do pretty much any place…

I didn’t realize I needed money to sleep well… Or to have a slow morning… Or to listen to birds sing?

Even in third world countries you’d have this…

Some interesting points, and some things I disagree with.

Firstly it’s annoying he keeps calling it his idea and trying to enforce this concept that the current internet needs to align with his original goals. That’s stupid and ignores that things will go where they go, he can’t control them.

So his first point about centralisation being an issue isn’t that big a grievance. But his second point rings true - the issues around our data and advertising have grown significantly and the Web is getting much worse as a result.

I actually think the solution is just government needs to step in and regulate it, along the lines of what the EU is doing. Realistically I think that’s the only solution that’ll help. Doing some grassroots movement and hoping it picks up steam is just unrealistic. Like looking at Lemmy and Mastadon - they’re great but at this pace they’ll never take over the other giants in the space. You need someone to step in and force the change.

It’s an ok experience. Realistically Reddit was much better before a bunch of changes and Lemmy hasn’t filled that/not sure it will catch up.

I don’t care if it succeeds or not. We’ll all just move on to the next thing if it doesn’t.

Yes of course it costs money - but it’s not my business to run and it’s the business’s problem. I’m not a charity or an investor so I don’t need to worry about whether the business succeeds or not.

So basically, no reason to donate.

Why would I donate?

I haven’t seen far rights here myself, but it’s a self selecting bias.

I’ve definitely come across more far lefts here than any other platform I’ve used which are equally as bad as far right imo.

I’m always concerned if there is only one strong group representation like that though. I’d rather have no extremists obviously, but if we have one side at least allow the other, otherwise that sort of crap starts seeping elsewhere.

That’s completely fair. 👍

You can’t just ignore the arguments that don’t fit your world view/argument. In that scenario I could just look at the negatives of Steam and the positives of Epic and say that the Epic Store is better than Steam because I ignore all the stuff that doesn’t fit my argument.

It’s not just Cs go but multiple games like Dota Etc. They have specifically built a whole market and ecosystem to convince you to buy stuff and gamble effectively.

You’ll have both though in the fediverse… So it’s pretty irrelevant. Just because you don’t see them doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

So what do you want exactly? Do you want the fediverse to remain small and irrelevant forever? Or do you want it to grow and become the dominant space with more bad actors but more useful actors as well?

Because you can’t have both, and you will always have more extremists and shitty views with larger groups. I for one think the fediverse is a better implementation of the social tech for pack of a better word, and would prefer its implementation over the closed wall implementation of non fediverse applications.

Sorry to hear.

Small consolation but you did use affects correctly. Something affects you, while something can cause an effect.

But the fediverse already has that lol. I’ve had arguments here with extremists many times.

You won’t just magically cure it by stopping FB from federating. Putting your fingers in your ears and closing your eyes doesn’t make it go away.

You are doing exactly what I said.

Valve is good, but they have shit features and I’m not sure why you’re defending them (but maybe you’re just a troll/ignoring my points?).

I don’t care about the competition - it’s like saying a person is molesting a child but hey, those two over there are molesting multiple children and murdering them! So they’re worse!

Marketshare is also a poor predictor as it’s often the first person to market as opposed to what’s best.

Think of it another way - Google has the most marketshare of search. Is it the best and is it doing only good things? If you say yes to both then I can’t help you further.

Yeah I don’t understand the issue.

People want the fediverse to grow, so FB entering it is a good thing no? Otherwise realistically the fediverse will likely stagnate and always just take up a tiny bit of space.

The more people involved the better. Sometimes I feel this group just wants to shoot themselves in the foot.

I don’t care about the things you mentioned, but yes, those are also issues.

I was talking more about the issues around gambling and making loops specifically to take advantage of gamers with problems.

As well as the real problem that a single leader leading a company/nation will mean that company/nation always fails. The successors will inevitably mess it up sometime.

This stuff is great.

But ignoring all the real issues with Steam is stupid. Its people like you that require others to point out all the issues with Valve and how it won’t last forever.

Use Windows on the daily and still have never seen these at all, on multiple computers as well.

Generally I’d agree it’s shitty behaviour though.