Makes me wonder if it was something like a lot of people were scrolling those hashtags and leaving hate comments and it triggered some automated hide feature and now they’re trying to find some middle ground. That’s being very generous to Meta though.

What the fuck is he on about? Ivory towers? It’s a fucking federal holiday for Christ’s sake.

I think it usually is, but I haven’t seen very many of these and I try to ignore ads as a form of protest lol.

Hulu does this thing sometimes where you can choose which ad you want if two videos. Usually there is a timer to pick a default for you. I don’t see a timer on the screen, but I’m still wondering if Lexus is using that feature for this ad. Did it not progress until you selected something?

“It’s like ham and hamster. Totally unrelated. But that’s just JavaScript, other BlahScripts are related. There was this crazy advertising push for Java back in the '90s that they took advantage of for name recognition.”

Still a very succinct and straightforward explanation.

This just gave me the (shit post) idea of an app where VC funders can swipe on projects they want to invest in or not

It doesn’t have to be the whole explanation. It’s not like you get a singular sentence to talk to someone lol.

I’m not splitting a hair, I’m just telling you I don’t feel that strongly about it because I’m not the one who made it. I’d never heard it before.

Look, I genuinely get what your saying, and I’m not saying people should be allowed to say whatever they want on Twitter. I’m certainly not saying the first amendment protects them. I’m just saying a lot of forms of online communication are critical in today’s society.

Like, if I got banned from Twitter for saying I dislike Elon Musk, does that sound okay? I know it’s currently legal, I’m not saying it isn’t. But it certainly feels like an unjust restriction of my speech. Not “free speech” in the protected first amendment sense, but certainly “free speech” in the sense that people should generally be allowed to say things. The response of “just build your own website and you can say what you want” is missing the point of the reach and power massive websites have. When people say “big tech restricts free speech” this is the sort of thing they’re trying to get at, but it sounds wrong because “free speech” is a pretty loaded and ambiguous term. Treating everyone saying free speech as if they mean something about the first amendment feels disingenuous to me.

And again, let me be perfectly clear, I’m not trying to insinuate that everyone should just get free reign to post whatever hateful content or misinformation they want wherever they want. I’m just saying that private companies being able to silence you on a global scale with no recourse or way to protest it feels very wrong. I don’t have a solution and don’t know where the line should be, but corporations shouldn’t just be able to gag people arbitrarily.

Your hamster analogy falls apart here because it only describes an exception, not a rule.

It’s not my analogy.

They need to fix the minus syntax/feature. That’s my singular complaint.

How is it dumb? Ham and hamsters are two totally different things but sound similar. Java and JavaScript are two totally different things but sound similar. It’s a way to immediately explain to a non technical person in a way they can grok.

DuckDuckGo

The elephant in the room with statements like this is that many communication enabling technologies are more akin to utilities. Where that line is and how close to utilities they are is debatable (do we include things like Twitter? Or just low level stuff like email. Are they utilities or merely similar to them?). Especially when you consider their necessity to operate in modern society and impossibility to rebuild yourself from scratch.

I get your point. I’m not trying to suggest corporations should be forced to allow 100% actually true free speech on their platforms.

Yeah. I used the BFF version for a bit to try and find folks in my area to hang out with. It’s a really horrible app. When someone messages you, you have 24 hours to respond. If you don’t then the two of you get unmatched. I can understand something like unlatching after some time period without responding, but just 24 hours? Ick.

I genuinely don’t care about the buttons not looking the same. I have real complaints though. Primarily that if I’m looking at downloads, go to the store, then click library I see downloads again instead.

Are you genuinely insinuating that something like Epic Game Store paid for this as guerilla marketing?

I click library. I am taken to downloads. Silly me.

I still think about that person who got banned from league for their name being Corona1488 and their last name was Corona and they were born on Jan 4th, 1988. I’m surprised they went so long without learning the connotations.

I saw Pixelfed mentioned on TikTok. So yeah!