sounded really dismissive to me.

that’s right, no reason to do anything about it. let’s just continue to fester in our own shit.

first thing I thought of.

he’s right. I don’t have any friends.

because I refuse to use his shitty platform and every human I have came in contact with for my entire life is so hollow and selfish they can’t interact with a human being without some form of technology.

so I come on lemmy and harass fascist supporting scum as a hobby.

don’t you mean, “FIX YOUR FUCKING TITLEFIX YOUR TITLE FUCKING lazy ass”

cool. go be angry somewhere else.

I have no way of auditing what I’m putting money toward.

same can be said of FOSS. back channel deals, betrayals, hostile takeovers. all of these things can(and have) happen to FOSS projects. all under a false pretense of “openness”.

There’s no way for the community to keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

previous point. it’s stupid easy to change licenses and lock out contributors. it’s happened several times. although you can technically argue anything before the license change could be forked, the event usually puts a bad taste in the public mouth and contributions dry up anyway. nobody wants to support a project with uncertainty.

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

I’ve known plenty of FOSS founders that were huge pieces of shit. racist bigoted sexist shitheads. At least with proprietary vendors I can trust they will do anything to continue being fluid/viable.

just want to add, not all FOSS founders are pieces of shit. same can be said for vendors as well.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.o keep it going if it stops or goes to shit.

why isn’t it? if it’s a generally better solution don’t you owe it to yourself and your “customers” to use the best solution? yes, use FOSS. yes, work with FOSS devs. What do you do when the project refuses to incorporate features you would like, even if you’re willing to pay for them? then there’s no difference between proprietary and FOSS, right?

enshitification doesn’t just affect vendors, it happens to FOSS projects all-the-time. I’ve personally experienced it when a bookkeeping app removed support for USD. when asked the founder refused to address it and simply stated that they couldn’t continue supporting a currency that fuels so much corruption in the world. now tell me, how does that garner my respect or support?

Money given toward proprietary software is money that would be better donated to FOSS whose developers actually give a shit about bettering the world.

see point above. you hold FOSS too highly as if the people who create these projects are impervious to corruption or greed. these are regular people like you or me. they have goals and dreams they want to achieve too, and sometimes the projects they started become vessels for them to achieve those dreams.

Proprietary software isn’t worthy of your respect or support. At best, use it if there are no FOSS alternatives, but don’t give money to something that could rapidly enshittify at any moment with no recourse and no way or recouperating your money.

You’re just repeating yourself now.

my point is, there cannot be light without darkness. FOSS and proprietary software are two halves of the same coin. to be so blinded by principles or to fool yourself with some moral superiority complex is only going to make things worse.

use what you need to solve the problems you have. sometimes that includes using vendor locked solutions. it’s not wrong, it’s just life.

the real reason?

Yeah… Bill Hinks used to be the guy that did that but the execs fired him and replaced him with AI. Now when we ask the AI to fix it, it just removes the password requirement entirely and lets anyone login as admin with the username “fuckyou”. I wish Bill was around but he won’t answer our calls and any emails we send him just get an auto-reply of “fuck you”.

yes, but actually no.

Plex pass members can continue sharing.

this isn’t directed just at you, but the whole jellyfin community in general.

not sure why, but the jellyfin community seems to be becoming toxic as fuck. I’m getting hard “best friend” vibes from it. if the Plex community leaves for jellyfin it’ll be on their own terms. just be welcoming to us and your numbers will grow.

if y’all keep acting like a jealous “guy” friend we’re likely to go somewhere else.

I don’t get why you’re being downvoted for spitting facts.

if you like software you should support it.

did you literally or figuratively stop reading though?

3tb of porn and growing.

momma always said, “do what you like you thick sumbitch, yer gon do it anyway.”

she was right. I did it anyway.

this makes way more sense than hundreds of shitty devs.

Classic Tim Apple.

I haven’t seen this question asked.

how can the results be trusted that they were actually interacting with real humans?

what’s the percentage of bot-to-bot contamination?

this study looks more like a hacky farce that is only meant to bring attention to our manipulation and less like actual science.

any professional that puts their name on this steaming pile should be ashamed of themselves.

so we create a walled garden of our own.

can’t complain if the public can’t view it.

someone takes screenshots of the problematic content and shares it? well they’re in trouble for posting/sharing problematic content.

if you don’t think it’s happening on here too you’re fooling yourself.

hold up…

they gonna start tattooing the 5G chips in our brains now? did they give up trying to inject them with vaccines? are vaccines safe now?

nvm, they cause autism.

my wife and I had been married for 2 years. been together for close to 10.

not once did we EVER say “Adirondack Chair”. Just never came up in conversation. we were broke as fuck and couldn’t afford something as superfluous as one of those.

One day, were driving down the road home and see one on the side of he road.

what’s that?

looks like an Adirondack Chair

Adirondack Chair? For free?

yeah, it looks broken though.

we get home go inside. I sit down to veg on my phone on the sofa. what does Amazon put in my “things you like” feed? mother fuckin Adirondack Chairs. Google news feeds? Adirondack Chairs on sale.

My wife had YouTube videos that were reviewing Adirondack Chairs.

this was ten years ago. Imagine what they’re doing now…