Yep!

Every person I knew who was into the Switch 2 complained about the price and then pre-ordered.

In over here chilling with my Steam Deck playing a TOTALLY LEGAL VERSION OF A RED MAN IN A JUMP SUIT.

Same. But not like anything popular/visible.

I found it while sorting by controversial. Then when I got banned for some BS, decided to finally figure this whole “Lemmy” thing out.

You can host your own WordPress. It’s open-source software.

And there’s hundreds of hosts who provide WordPress as a software so, while they upsell/can throttle, make money off you providing hosting services, not because you’re using WordPress.

Feel like Im missing a lot of context.

Good on you! Usenet has been around for DECADES.

I don’t have a guide that’s modern. I’m just remembering how I used to connect in the 90s-2000s.

Lemmy feels a lot more like old reddit.

New Reddit feels artificial. The written content posts LOOK like they’re from AI. Much of the subreddits are now curated. You can’t say Luigi.

Here, it’s a bit of a wild west. And that’s okay.

There isn’t much written content posts. But the comments? I’m loving it. It comes off genuine. Human. Real. Even the shitty ones that make me want to downvote but damn do I somewhat see their perspective.

I read that section half a dozen times and I still don’t understand it.

It’s like they really don’t have lawyers on the team that know what they’re doing.

“legally”

Remember when Trump told EU companies to stop DEI policies and EU laughed? It goes both ways.

Seriously. I see comments like this all the time but no examples.

Just the idea that a developer would care so much to create something like “If user doesn’t consent, ruin their experience”.

Wouldn’t really matter for most sites hosted in America. American businesses do not have to comply unless they have EU customers.

International sites like YouTube absolutely has some system that will switch the cookie tracking depending on geo location, from CCPA to GDPR.

But American sites don’t really gaf. Small News site in America, unless they’re paying for a fancy Cookie Consent Management tool, is doing it the US way and it’s opt out, regardless of where you’re coming from.

For example: if Kansas News site gets a warning from the EU about cookies, they’re not going to care. They don’t have the budget, and honestly, easier to just block all IPs from outside the US.

If you hate this, stop using American products and services. (And I say this as a privacy concerned American)

In the US, it’s the opposite. The way the law is written, you have to OPT out. So they’re collecting the moment you land.

I’ve set up a bunch of these cookie banners for US businesses. You can choose if you follow the EU version, or the CCPA version.

Absolutely this.

2010s was a wild west of downloading multi pack codecs BS. Just let me play the video!

How exactly does a website stop a web scraper specifically from a org?

I mean isn’t that the whole point of web scraping? That if it’s publicly available, anybody, including people like ICE, will find a way to get the data?

That pie chart isnt including trust.

If I see a Hotmail/yahoo email, I immediately assume spammer or nontechnical boomer who has already been scammed a few times.

Gonna bet it’ll be deleted in a few hours.

Google and cloudflare has the resources (and servers) for high uptime and speed. Youre going to have to make a trade off.

That’s really neat! Is there documentation for that?

There were comments jokingly considering that Digg is trying to come back. And I’m bummed nobody mentioned Lemmy. (And I don’t have a Reddit anymore after leaving)

All th AI bots making posts aren’t helping with growth?

If you’re using Dropbox in 2025, you may already have all of your private data shared with somebody.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4157118/dropbox-backlash-openai-sharing

They “say” they don’t feed it to AI. But Dropbox is bleeding money since 2018 and at some point, will be sold to the highest bidder and from that point, you might as well just store your data on somebody’s random website.