Ffs

You couldn’t pay me to play a game on epic. It’s not even a boycott. They just suck and I’m not broke. I can buy my own games and I’d rather pay than put their software on my pc let alone play on their platform.

95% of people can sing kumbaya in their little eco friendly circle jerk but if that 5% is over it and ready to fight over that belief the 95% better buck the fuck up and rise to the obvious existential threat in front of their fucking face or else they lose.

Oh look, that’s what happened.

We aren’t saying that brown people are above tech and modernities and that’s why they don’t have them… are we? Surely not.

For all the AI hate on this website y’all couldn’t figure out this was written by it? This is ChatGPT in particular.

Well I personally would both at the same time even.

Not just science. I own a small art business. The magazines in my world all do this. I see my competitors paying hundreds of dollars for “interviews” in them. The entire magazine is an ad masquerading as some type of journalism. I don’t even pay for ads and I’m buried in work. So it’s not needed, at all (who reads this stuff? At least a science journal makes sense).

Honestly it’s shameful across the board. Anyone participating should feel bad about it.

The big answer to that is creating value on the site itself, no?

You have a point but maybe the gatekeeping is a good thing?

Average user doesn’t care about federation would translate to the average user doesn’t care about this community. Maybe?

It’s like how some old forums would charge for an account. Kept a certain low effort person from signing up. Sure it might turn people off but if you do enough work to understand how to get in then there’s a level of buying into it that might make you care more.

Just some thoughts.

Reddit used fake accounts from the beginning.

If we want a real space it’s going to feel “dead” compared to that anyways.

So yea, I agree.

Must not be that. I’m still here.