this post was submitted on 28 Sep 2023
432 points (100.0% liked)

Technology

38654 readers
54 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:


This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 

TL;DR: Reddit is removing the option to opt out of ad personalization, targeting ads based on user activity. Some specific ad categories can still be limited, but there's no more opt-out option.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 years ago (3 children)

They just went from we love you guys to we don’t even give a fuck bend over boy in like 6 months.

Twitter has also shifted into a dystopian QQ wannabe.

Meta has been a dumpster fire for a decade now.

Tik Tok. heavy sigh

This kinda seems like end of times.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

if this is your version of the end of times, I suggest you take a look out your window at the burning hellscape of western north america and other locations around the globe. I also hope you're not too attached to birds or polar bears.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My world ends whenever someone doesn't understand hyperbole

[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Now I become death, destroyer of literary device

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You became Death? How did you manage that?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

By taking things literally, apparently

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This makes me want to just set myself on fire!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

birds or polar bears

Phew! Luckily I just like penguins...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have bad news. Penguins are a hybrid of bird and polar bear.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Even the name Penguin is a hybrid of polar and penguin.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's almost like we can be upset about multiple things at one. Wow.

Why are we playing these games of let's come up with something worse so we can devalue what someone else is talking about? This isn't a competition. That is such unnecessary behavior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How am I devaluing what they are saying by pointing out there are much, much, more serious signals of a looming apocalypse?

It's like worrying about the mosquito biting you in a room full of blood thirsty canibals.

I realize I shifted off topic, but they were getting a bit dramatic with the end of times bit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is it dramatic when it's all interconnected to begin with? People noticing a shift like that online might start to get involved in other ways as well if they start to feel more of the effect personally. It's a good thing that people are noticing this stuff.

Again it's not a competition and people shouldn't have to have their frustrations compared to something else, that is devaluing it. We are allowed to be upset about something and have that stand on its own without others chiming in and acting like it doesn't matter because of something else so that they can act self important or more intelligent. It's just old and tired.

You seem to have an incredibly bad attitude and I wouldn't be shocked if you were trying to start something, so I'm done here. Maybe try some empathy out for a change.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I'm not trying to start anything, I just don't follow your logic, and your comments seem like an over reaction.

I'm happy to agree to disagree though, and won't presue a conversation neither of us really wants to have.

Hopefully you find other people on here that are more suited to your perspectives (I'm legitimately sorry we're clashing). Lemmy is a great platform and I want you to enjoy it as much as I do

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If it's the end of the era of social media, I'm plenty ok with that. Shit's been cancer for almost a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And may it usher in the era of antisocial media. The era where we all stop trying to impress each other, monetize each other, and just buy a thing and have it do the thing we bought it for, and not be bothered. Long may it reign.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Lol that's more like the end of American consumerism, and while I wholeheartedly agree, that'll take a generation or two at least to decouple from American society. That shit's been going strong here for over 100 years.