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It’s ruined in multiple ways.

People with low-hanging, unfunny ‘pranks’ or jokes.

Corporations being stupidly obvious and still trying to be hip.

Pools of people that would take great offense or lack a sense of humor.

There’s just no point in it anymore.

Pizza parties for everyone, I guess. /s

I’m tired of articles that just act like nothing else exists or has existed. It’s just so dishonest and not very intellectual. Right, Reddit and Discord, that’s all we have now right? Forget Facebook, Xanga, MySpace, Skype, the Messengers, IRC, ICQ, Twitter, WhatsApp, Kik, Telegram, Signal .etc it goes on and on.

But Reddit and Discord, that’s all we have!

Are you pretending that nothing has ever been tried? The Fediverse, that’s what is being done about it. That’s why most of us are here. Also, why narrow it down to Reddit and Discord? Articles like these are garbage because it’s very tone deaf.

Likes and Upvotes have long, long existed before. They started on forums, it was just the dawning of MySpace and Facebook and Reddit are what popularized them and made it standard.

Fucking hell, Forums also still exist, they just aren’t getting activity. I hate this fucking article now.

Your only options is to self-host, otherwise archive.org. But since it is constantly under threats, you’re left to self-host.

It’s already bad enough this instance got spammed with a bunch of girl-dick images by some loser.

Nah, I’m over that kind of shit. I used to DJ on Second Life and people were playing songs but it was obvious they ripped it from YouTube. Because the songs would either be the music video version, it would have some opening intro or an ending, worst if the video ends with asking for subscribers. Audio quality was always shit.

I know that falls under lazily editing to cut them out, but ripping YouTube videos for audio is just a lazy form of pirating.

I really got impatient last year and just decided to pirate games left and right.

I got Balatro, Iron Meat, Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection, MMPR: Rita’s Rewind, Sea of Stars, Scott Pilgrim, Shadows of Doubt, Bit Trip ReRunner, Xenotilt and Castlevania Advance Collection.

I mean, it just feels like I’m seeing the same prices, every. damn. year. I’m sorry but I thought the point was mind-staggeringly good deals, not stagnated deals. And most of the games that are on sale, are games I don’t particularly care for. While everything on my wishlist, stagnates, regardless of how old the game becomes.

Rules for thee but not for me.

I never saw the point of having a comments section to some of these places.

If the Fediverse can avoid one big problem with other social media platforms and that is having a power-tripping owner destroy it. If any of the Fediverse platforms can avoid that one thing and manage to keep it’s values in check, then it’s no contest to avoid the other social media platforms.

Anytime I see “millions” or “billions” claimed in losses, I assume it’s less than that and consider it whining.

All that we’ve ever asked from Mozilla is three things:

• Focus on the performance of your browser so that it is not a hog.

• Upkeep privacy

• Keep it secure

Out of all of those things, Mozilla fails at all except maybe the last thing. We didn’t ask for AI implementation. We didn’t ask for Firefox accounts. We didn’t ask for whatever feature flavor of the month that Mozilla got a hair up their ass about that they just had to throw into the browser. We asked for simple things and Mozilla overshot them. How are any of these features meant to uphold the values once held by Mozilla?

If you want to talk about a nothing-burger, think of all of the reasons that Mozilla had danced around to excuse itself by throwing these things in. And the cherry on top was the Terms of Service. Truly, they are tone-deaf.

I hope the trophies are shaped like hard dicks. Who’s the biggest cocksucker for anti-piracy?

So it’s SOPA 2.0 but it has a chance of passing because of a wild government that has no dignity.

It’s like people who only ever decide to listen to the radio while driving around. Dude, we’ve had the ability to play our CDs with cassette adapters, we’ve had the ability to play cassettes in our cars and things have gotten twice as better the day the IPod came and mass MP3 support through USB happened.

There is no excuse as to why no one can’t just plug in their media device or use Spotify or something. If you continue to listen to the radio, you have no stance to complain about the music.

Work for it, lazy moocher.

There aren’t a lot of legal ramifications for simply discussing piracy online, other than attracting annoying moralistically conflicted people who’re going to challenge you on the grounds of how acceptable piracy is. I would stick to piracy communities to avoid that.

Don’t be an e-beggar. I wish sometimes pirates would stop catering to these people who beg and beg all of the time and not even give much of a thank you. They have a good chance of coming back and just asking for more things because they’re too lazy to do the work themselves, subtracting all of the inability to do so for whatever reason.

Make your pirating patterns inconsistent on purpose, don’t download massive amounts of data that will make you a blip on the radar and of course a VPN.

You’re not making a lot of sense here. And I don’t really see where the simple act of discussing digital piracy would warrant it illegal. Now actually pirating is illegal and varies from person to person and location to location. It is something you just do and should already accept the risky circumstances involved in doing so.

I think asking for donations is a lot less attention grabbing, than it is getting advertisers, which is what the point of donations is for, is to prevent having to resort to advertising.