Still hasn’t been. Today it’s called “shovelware”

People in this thread giving the answers without the context.

Loops is Tiktok

Friendica is Facebook

Pixelfed is Snapchat.

Mastodon is Twitter

You already found Lemmy, which is reddit.

Peertube is Youtube.

Am I missing any?

Yeah…not even the /s saves that comment from being ick.

diehards will swear the 1st one is better than the 2nd one.

The consensus on this actually shifted over the years. In the 90s, 1 was better than 2. Then in the 2000s, 2 was better than 1. And now it’s reverted back to 1 being better than 2.

It’s always been 1 better than 2 though.

Thats the one!

I like Grim Fandango

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. Ferris Bueller

…well now I want to see the cursed one.

I feel like I would have agreed with Google had they just argued “This is our private store. We did all the work to build it. We control the rules. If you want to make the Epic Store apk, you can. Sideloading is an absolute possibility. No hacking needed.”

I would agree with that.

Instead they argued by Epic charging money without giving google a slice, it compromises users safety and the innovation of the platform.

Fuck

Off.

Would have been better to use a gif of the luigi death stare

2019? Wow. That’s in the before times.

Remember when John Stewart only had SOME grey hair?

Hey, no judgement. 2020 had my hair looking like santa claus.

For me, the issue is the lack of an ability to view the local of a different instance.

I’m on Lemmy.World. You’re on Communick.News.

If I want to view the local on Communick.News, I can’t. I have to create an account there. And if I want to view the local on Lemmy.World I need to log out of your instance, and log in over here.

Now here’s the bigger issue. Lets say I can click a button, and now a home instance, and all its communities could be saved to a special drop down tab that replaces the local. Your instance is always the default, but the rest are alphabetically listed.

So now that solves that, but we run into the next issue.

What makes Communick.News different from Lemmy.World?

See, if I had a Lemmy.Nintendo instance, it could have 50 different communities of different Nintendo stuff.

Then you could have Lemmy.Linux and have all the linux communities.

And sure, it’s decentralized so maybe Linux.paradise also exists and has some of the same communities.

The idea isn’t to centralize the instances. The idea is to theme them.

No hookers?

Ok…what’s meshtastic? I still haven’t clicked the article, and know nothing of which you speak.

I’d say this title is for people like me. I think it sounds cool.

Oh they absolutely do. Consequences aren’t a thing for this government. And won’t be until people unite.

Whats not to know?

Step 1) Open the browser.

There is no step 2. Just go wherever you want, and read. Or watch videos. If you don’t know where something is, search for it. The browser does all the work. That’s like saying you don’t know how to use a microwave.

Here’s how you make people aware of your products.

You sell a quality product for a reasonable price.

That’s it.

Instead, capitolism has become this game of cat and mouse where the consumers ALWAYS lose. Just a game of shrinking product sizes, reducing quality, and raising prices. Little by little.

It’s most obvious when you haven’t had a product in a while, maybe years, and you grab it again. Only to realize they’ve gone through several iterations of enshitification.

When I was a kid, Andy Capps Cheese Fries used to be about as long as my pinky, and they were thick. Now it’s like the length of my pinky until my second knockle, and it’s like the same thickness as a pretzle stick. Sure, it’s technically the same product, but everytime I buy them I realize why I was disappointed the last time I bought them. And I won’t buy them for another 5 years. Maybe by then they’ll be the length of my pinky nail and as thick as a sewing pin, but cost 8 dollars instead of the 25 cents it was when I was a kid.

They did a durability test on hammers. In one side was an old rusty hammer. It had a date of 1931 on it. In the other was a brand new hammer bought that same day from Home Depot.

The new hammer crumbled long before the 1931 hammer did. This test was done in 2017.

But I never buy products because they advertise. I buy them because I remember how good it was the last time.

Except now, you’re advertising BAD memories. Because when I go in expecting this much, with this quality, and instead I get a fraction of it, with only a fraction of the quality…congradulations. You saved money on production costs. You also pushed your customer away from being a repeat customer.

All this business schools, and all the data they have I’m sure shows that their way is better. So explain to me why it seems businesses these days struggle to make the line go up, but when I was a kid business was booming?

Preach!!!

Like clockwork I continue to not be subscribed to peacock, or any other streaming, for this very reason.

Pay X amount per month, for a selection of content you don’t control, have no ownership of, cannot retain a copy of (longterm), and whose price is subject to change at any time.

Ooooorrrrrrr…I could buy physical media, and rip my own permanent copy, which never expires, andwhose cost is a one time purchase.

Why the fuck is physical media dying??? Oh, right. I live in the same country that willingly voted for trump, and are now shocked to learn he’s a shitty person.

In other words, I’m surrounded by morons.