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A British software firm, Threads Software Limited, has given Meta a 30-day ultimatum to cease using the name “Threads” in the UK, citing ownership of the trademark.
So it’s just a threat with no actual value or feasible legal repercussions?
It’s a very common word in other languages (Spanish) but my brain didn’t even process it correctly the first time I saw it in English lol
HN is a news aggregator where users can find and discuss the latest news and submit content on anything that gratifies one’s intellectual curiosity. YC alumni also post engineering, product, and design jobs on HN.
It has pretty interesting discussions most of the time, the comments are usually very technical, but you can find pretty much the average Lemmy/reddit type of stuff there.
Some clients have post and comment score across instances visible, see Voyager
By having an upvote / downvote system it already has a censoring and ranking system.
If you look at most threads people downvote dissenting opinions regardless of the quality of their arguments, some instances become echo chambers that way.
You can easily control the narrative by upvoting someone that argues against you, most people will see your comment as
1 upvote 1 downvote
And the person arguing with you as
2 upvotes
Therefore they will be biased to downvote you further and upvote the other person as their social calibration defaults to thinking you are in the wrong as someone else said so already, it’s more economical that way as you won’t really have to do that assessment.
It’s a very interesting phenomenon and I’d like to do some formal testing with it across multiple social media with upvote/downvote functions, but I believe it does censor opinions that do not adhere to the usual feelings of the majority.
I’ve had a good experience with YouTube comments but I feel they are pretty pointless as:
there is no search function:Ctrl f only takes you so far as it just looks at what is currently present and sometimes even hidden by display more or within replies, it’s very annoying.
people spam a lot and comments only load in batches: 10k comments in popular videos saying shit like ‘sir thank you sir, excellent tutorial, I didn’t understand anything but I like using React’.
some comments get auto removed: if you want to post a workaround or some piece of code, it gets removed if there’s a link or link-looking structure.
I mostly comment on tech-related tutorials just to post a list of the issues I had and the solutions, from time to time I get pinged with more questions and people are generally grateful and sometimes other people mention better/easier workarounds.
I’ve seen people using dual apps (this tech has been out for several years by now) to have completely independent instances of an app such as whatsapp so that they can be online for say friends and family, but leave the other instance offline for work.
It’s also used a lot for cheating too 🥲
Phones can have double sims, and WhatsApp web (been out for years by now) can be used on any decent Desktop Browser, it can also be installed as a PWA and I think there is a WhatsApp Desktop version as well.
Why is this so downvoted? Lol
Honestly, what were you expecting? There just can’t be any Utopic website or group that won’t fight at all. People moved over to Lemmy because they hated Spez’ decisions, not because they were these mythical, superior moral beings that only help others out of selfless reasons. Sure we all have values and principles but that does not excuse us of our faults.
Still, it’s still used as a measurement that only a small fraction of the world still uses.
That’s a lot of stills 🤔
But coming back to your point, yes, I have no idea why the US insists on keeping the imperial system, it’s outdated, ugly and inconsistent. Plus you cannot easily convert from one unit to another.
It’s funny and sad at the same time that career politicians are allowed to exist because they tend to be the ones voting for their own restrictions and benefits.
Term restrictions? Fuck that
Increase our own salary even though we haven’t passed any new laws actually helping society? Let’s goo
For women who assembled iPhones at a Foxconn plant in southern India, crowded dorms without flush toilets and food sometimes crawling with worms were problems to be endured for the paycheck.
Fucking disgusting
Next step might be to add some ads to paid version?
Yep:
Amazon is sticking ads in Prime Video shows and movies unless you pay more
It’s funny how in most old scifi they showed a future where we as a society had AI working labor intensive jobs but art was a human-only activity. I guess we didn’t account for how bad capitalism was going to overpower our value.
There’s this study for those interested in knowing more about how often these devices mistakenly record conversations:
https://moniotrlab.khoury.northeastern.edu/publications/smart-speakers-study-pets20/
I don’t think it’s American, it’s mostly a troll account with 12 hours spamming tankie propaganda
That’s because your meme is dogshit, you used the wrong template for whatever the hell your point was.
There is quite a lot of organic interactions in most subs although some big subs and niche subs have Astroturfers