Oh, it’s been going on since Day 1. The issue with now, is that there is no one to prosecute these behaviors. It’s made the grifters and scammers SO much more bold.

Pump and dump scam. Perfect indictment of the industry as a whole now that Trumplestiltskin is prez.

Time to start askng really weird questions and perhaps build a script that uses a browser and makes random web searches and lands on, opens and scrolls pages for a span of between 2 and 5 minutes, then moves on.

Cool photo! I think those are American Elderberry (Sambucus Canadensis) flowers…

The thing is, this horseshit is only happening because adults have let computers - more specifically, iPads and phones - become their children’s babysitters.

Have you seen any of the “iPad Kids” videos?

Holy shit, what fucking irresponsible parents.

I’d have photoshopped an image of Satya Nadella giving head to Donald Trump and made it my desktop…

“Recall” this! Microsoft!

Came here to express the exact same sentiment. The ol’ boy can start tomorrow if he means it.

Well, shit! Hm. Hope they find a buyer who maintains the products.

One of my local favorites here in the Northeast is a soda manufacturer called Squamscot… they make soft drinks and have an outstanding Birch Beer flavored one, which I love making floats with.

…and think what are these people reading???

You said it in the post… “long-winded, complex sentence structure…” By and large the bulk of users here are two, maybe three decades younger than we are, and as such, they came of age and were educated in the post-Reagan era. You can really throw some of them for a loop and use colons and semi-colons in a few nice independent clauses.

Not to digress too much, have you seen the videos on youtube by Elle Cordova? Her “Grammarian” videos are a riot.

I do so love clever use of language…

Full truth is that people just need to stop using the apps and use the browsers. I’ve never downloaded or used a site specific app on any of my phones. Actually delete those fuckers because of the tracking built in, so if I can’t get to a site via mobile browser, I don’t and just hit it up at home on the computer. Nothing on any social media site is so important that it can’t wait until I get home.

Honestly once Conde Nast bought the site way back when, this was a given end for the content.

Weird - I use them all the time - and no one’s accused me of being anything other than an old fart, (“…Okay 'boomer…” - which I now wear as a badge of online longevity honor…) or at best, a nuisance best kept from polite society.

I’ve been explaining lemmmy as a communication platform that’s run by tons of different people that have their own servers all around the world and they can connect with each other, so you can’t get randomly banned from the platform. If you get bumped (which is really unlikely) from one server you can sign up on another and pick right back up where you were.

NGL, few of my friends used reddit so they just smile nod and go “yeaaahhh.”

But, I do not give up on sharing about it.

There’s a way to filter out the lemmy.ml instance and that apparenty cuts a lot of that noise down significantly.

I’ll have to check that out, thanks!

My online photos aren’t so much social media “look at meeee!” but more “here’s the photos you need, I took a bunch of the new merch so you should find something that works…” for my co-workers.

Is it me or does he look like that Microsoft Windows guy in the old Get A Mac commercials?

I hear that music in the background, while the crowd yells at him to tax the rich and he kinda fumbles wth his papers…

God… it fits.

I didn’t ascribe a he/him/her/she/them/they to an icon.

It was just that… it… …and it is fine.

The rest just strikes me as so much marketing.

Nice!

I finally gave my all-but unused Instagram account the heave-ho last week. Left with a “Am tired of Meta’s enshittification of their sites…” message.

Besides I have a pro account on Flickr, (for a loooong time - from when it was a yahoo property) and that is SO much quieter and friendly since it’s just about photographs.

Yeah, twatter needs to meet a slow, costly, end for Musk.

Kit looks more she/her than the OG icon.

Hmm… …the silliness continues.