Downfall to the fediverse: You know what your friends see when they look into this stuff? Oh, wow, they use that site that has the pedos on it.
It's a serious issue. Most people don't and won't understand the decentralized thing. When these come to light in the media, and stuff like this ALWAYS comes to light in the media, someone is gonna say at some point "Hey didn't pigeon suggest that site to me once?"
As a mod of a few big subs, that doesn't really work either. Lots of us ban those on sight because of those stupid t-shirt bots.
General, another settlement needs help.
I mean he was literally the president. I'm not a fan either but surely we're not expecting him to have his door kicked in and for him to get dragged off in cuffs. Secret service following him around in jail?
How much does this dude have to do before everyone sues the pants off of him? We should be past that stage months ago.
Respectfully dude, it's not everyone else's job to police content for you. Paywalls are everywhere, it's the internet.
I didn't until I found Beehaw. I'm enjoying it now.
I wish you could block servers personally, though. Like some of the stuff that's blocked here makes this place a lot better to be around. There's less hate and reactionary fear mongering. Everything is more chill.
All he had to do was sit in his money bunker and make dumb tweets about harmless things and he'd have eventually died a legendary figure.
Now he's infamous for a totally different reason. I mean look at Richard Branson. That could be Elon right now, as the worst case scenario. Some hyper-rich dude that most people are aware of but that you never hear much negative on in the media. He just kinda exists, does billionaire stuff. Heck, even Bezos right now. When's the last time you saw Bezos show up negatively in the news? And neither of them had a full on cult of personality forming around them.
It's a thing with large corporations that want to do something unpopular, and she probably knows he's doing it. Hire a woman to be a CEO, do ALL SORTS of nasty things that she can't directly veto because you're the owner, then fire her for the backlash to those things and come in as a conquering hero.
The Ellen Pao effect.
The always online is bad. The micro-transactions are worse. I'm tired of being told "But it's just cosmetic!" Yeah, well that used to come with the game too. "They need to be able to make more content!" Yeah, it's made over 666 million dollars. They can afford more content. "At least it's not..." That shouldn't exist either.
Games, and expansion packs. That's it. Day one MTX is insulting. "here's your game, pay to unlock more of it" should not be a thing we accept. At this point I half expect a back-slide to pay full price and then a sub to actually play the game. I can not wrap my head around why people defend it, I've stopped buying games with MTX entirely.
Diablo 2 resurrected is quite good, though. Nailed that one.
Nah, it's a democracy. Hi! I'm that mod in question. Man we protested for the users, that's why all of that happened in the first place. I'm also the mod that started the discussion with the community about blacking out, and if the option was to either get a few people mad by having my hand forced by spez or seeing the place turn into kotaku in action? I'll take the heat, I'm fine with that. I'd do it again.
My concern first and foremost is the people, I'm fucking PISSED at what spez pulled (and made that VERY clear in our return post) but he forced our hand. If they hand the place off to some of the random mods reddit has in their pocket for this kind of situation or anyone that requests it, it could fuck up the community. I'm literally a mod because I care about that not happening. And that didn't change just because spez is a dickhead.
I'd prefer to see us migrate elsewhere. Until that happens I'm gonna do my best to make the sub the best environment possible for what we do. If that makes me a turncoat, I'll own it, because this ain't about my ego dude. It's about the users. And I'm damn sure not being paid to do it.