Because Arch users would’ve shunned me for asking for support when I don’t use literal Arch.
Fediverse is worse than Reddit. Mod abuse, admin abuse, disinformation and people circle jerking each other off like they have it all figured out.
Because Arch users would’ve shunned me for asking for support when I don’t use literal Arch.
I’m specifically talking about the EOS forum, which was just dicks throwing insults towards me having a support request and the admins consequently closing the thread and hiding it, telling me to make a new one if I still need support.
Can’t recommend EOS. Awful community when something breaks. Definitely not something for people coming from Windows.
Ubuntu’s packet manager Apt was already kind of awful in many ways, especially with its PPA hell. But them adding Snap packages somehow managed to make them reach even new levels of awful.
I think retaliatory downvotes happen either way if you’re in an argument. Same with report abuse, which, if it happens to a high degree, would be the moderator’s responsibility to ban the perpetrator (reports here are not anonymous like they were on Reddit).
Also, if there’s someone with an abusive mind, they can easily use another instance that shows Activity to identify downvoters. The vote is public either way for federation purposes, they’re just hidden from certain instances - at least on the user level, but they’re still there technically.
Fedia hiding the activity is one of those things that I kinda dislike, as it was an easy way to detect certain trolls.
I think you want to work on your reading comprehension. The topic is about politically problematic mbin instances, not how mbin works.
I would not risk it if you’re at risk of getting kicked out or something, especially if your host country is stricter on that type of content. Just join one of the existing instances and subscribe to whatever Lemmy communities you want to see federated with it.
I’m quite sensitive to Tankies and seen some other Lemmy instances that seem problematic but I have not noticed any mbin instances standing out in any way. But all mbin instances combined are just a few thousand users at best, so it might just be too few users to even make an impact if there was a specific Tankie instance.
Mbin is a community fork of Kbin. Even while Kbin was still a thing it was already much faster in making changes & additions than Kbin and by now Kbin & Kbin.social is basically dead.
16 & 4 upvotes here on Fedia (mbin), with 0 boosts on each.
Do people seriously not know what a freaking mammoth is?!
Shit. I’m gonna turn my alarm off and get some proper sleep the next days…
5 bucks per month per active user sounds excessively expensive, no?
Hence why I barely watch YT anymore. The few channels not resorting to this bullshit are definitely a minority and also hard to find.
I have a problem with content made for the purpose to profit. And no, I’m completely allergic to ads, so I very much have a problem with ads as a whole too. They’re just two correlating issues.
it has no ties with “the purpose of youtube” simply because… it’s not youtube.
It’s literally hosted and watched on YT my guy. Without YT the video would not exist, without YT the video would not be watched, without YT the video would not even get created, and without YT it would not give the creator any way to monetize it - be it through YT ads itself or through external third party sponsoring, which is ultimately completely irrelevant to your counter argument. In the end the videos get made with the purpose of making money off of them, not to provide a potentially interesting video to be shared with others - that’s how YT started.
Sure but if the content suck you won’t watch it.
I won’t, thousands or even millions of others do though, because the average user is about as brain dead as the content nowadays on YT.
Nowadays, yes. But that comes down to the fact that most people don’t care, which continuously degrades YT content to what it is now, and further degrades it into even more of an absurdity. That’s why I barely watch YT videos anymore, and I was a pretty active viewer in the past, being with the platform pretty much since its creation. Boycotts unfortunately only work if people collectively pull through, but at least I can say that I personally stay out of the nonsense. It’s not like there aren’t other things I could be doing.
Not a fan of avoiding clickbait titles & thumbnails, because then you still click on such videos and support those practices. I rather just block all channels using those tactics.
I would’ve, or rather had at the time of its creation, fully expected it to shut down either way. Because that’s kinda been the trend with most new Mozilla products from before the new CEO anyway.