You really should not derail this discussion here.

It’s really strange that the mods in the article are talking about the risks for their users by spammers while operating a subreddit that is totally encouraging people to inject them with really strange, untested stuff

The used market is not there right know. Those EVs last longer and have had a lot of progress in the last years. That means that you do not have that many cheap used offerings as you have with petrol cars.

Batteries, being consumable devices. How much is the EV’s battery to replace (including labour) and how long does the OEM part last?

People really need to think of petrol motors as consumption parts. Your engine will need a lot of mainenance and it also has a lifespan. That lifespan is shorter than that of a battery

Not every game has cheat codes?

Another great alternative is Geoactivity Playground if you use Strava to get overall statistics for your rides. You can import a Strava export or simply put some GPX files in a folder. It’s great:

https://github.com/martin-ueding/geo-activity-playground

Yeah, I like to cheat in my single player games. No harm done and I have a lot of fun

Strava has the unique position that it is the de facto provider nearly everything does sync to. Even some chinese bicycle computer will sync to Strava, your obscure fitness tracker will too and that nice little app will also grab your data and display it. This nice ecosystem will end with these changes.

I mean … why not? There are a lot of things in games that simply just suck. Some games are requiring you to grind to gain some arbitrary stats to proceed. Or you need to do some things again and again to unlock the cool stuff. You are getting stuck on some stupid puzzles and need to google a solution, which is hidden in some multipart youtube play through. Or you simply do hate underwater or ice levels. It’s your game, it’s your time, why shouldn’t you be able to skip that?

The fediverse will run into this problem: Reddit is charging AI companies for access and all other big networks are increasingly making it hard to index them in search engines or to scrape them. The fediverse is different. We will see it getting more visible in search and therefore also in AI results, because it is accessible. Which means that people will come here and try to game the system.

That will really help all those lawsuits from people who got addicted to that thingy.

I really hate those pictures that just show some randoms with a sob story. I always feel that they are totally fake.

(and if this is true: You can get cheap wedding rings. You do not have to pay thousands of money for them. You can get a cheap ring and that does work, too. Feel free to propose to the human you love even if you can’t afford some expensive ring)

Dude, the author is from Estonia. English is therefore not his native language. Fuck you for attacking non-native speakers because of some minor grammar error.

Mastodon was founded a decade ago, and since then has roughly 1 million monthly active users. That is 0.25% of the MAU of twitter/X currently (which has itself seen declines over the years). Pixelfed has 250k monthly active users, which is 0.008% of Instagrams 3 billion MAU. Friendica has 5000 MAU which is essentially 0% of the 3.1 billion MAU that Facebook has.

You’re confusing those metrics. When fediverse apps show you active users, they really are showing you users that are doing anything on the app. Here on Lemmy, to be included in that number, you need to upvote, downvote, comment or post.

The commercial networks, however, are also including not-logged in users in their numbers. So if you’ve been on the X page this month or have been linked to an Instagram video or have watched something on YouTube, you are included in that metric. If you have some sensible data protection on your computer, delete your cookies and maybe change your fingerprint automatically, you can be included several times in that number.

The fediverse doesn’t track those numbers (and can’t TBH), but it is bigger than you are thinking. There are several users reading stuff for every user posting.

And in my opinion: It is ok that we are smaller than Facebook. We do not need to be a network that includes everyone on the planet. We do not need to have billions of users. Smaller communities are nicer. Smaller communities are more manageable. Not everything needs to grow like cancer. It’s ok if your little pub on the corner is there and there are so many regulars there that everybody has a good time and the owner can live from it. If the whole city and people from neighboring towns start coming, it will lose its character.

Yeah - people are talking about replacing jobs with AI. As if it is not totally obvious that people like Sam Altman will totally bleed you dry after you fired all your workers. You will not save on your wage bill, you will simply give the money to Sam Altman

It also does work without those sticker by just putting every document chronologically in a folder. New ones come on the top and if you need a document, you can get the date from paperless. Since most documents have a date printed on them and most people are not getting thousands of letters every year, you will find the document

It’s inevitable

And it totally has the potential to collapse on itself. Let AI replace a lot of office workers. Let self-driving cars replace drivers. Let robots replace fast food workers and delivery persons. Move manufacturing jobs offshore. Everyone is unemployed and nobody can afford your robot-created fast food anymore. You have no customers and go bankrupt

It would be horrible and kill this place. Meta does not do any sensible moderation on its platforms. There are nazis on there. All those MAGA propagandists. Scammers. Trolls. Meta is doing nothing against that.

A “meta lemmy instance” integrating Facebook groups would be too big for other instances to block. Which would bring all those users you really don’t want to be here into our forum with no moderation. It would also send all your posts and user data from here to Meta.

They are also here in the fediverse

I really want to know why they are collecting that data and what they are doing with it. They are doing an immense breach of privacy to do what exactly? They are scanning peoples faces at the entrance. Maybe also through the park? And then they are saving that data for 30 days and claim to delete it? So what is the purpose here?

Yeah - I’ve been burned so often by companies entshittifying their product that I simply stopped using new commercial services. I mean - if I start using Storygraph, their goal is to annoy me as much as possible until I buy their $50/year subscription. The fediverse is so awesome because it it the opposite of that.