Yeah, but ya know, people shouldn’t be required to “apply critical thinking” to what is effectively a passthrough device for them. Do you consider the choice of lubricant used for the serpentine belt in your car? Car dudes would say “ugh people should apply more critical thinking to their car”

Technology should be reasonable and functional, even if you’re not invested in the details

Edge is pretty popular. Here’s the stats for 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#/media/File:StatCounter-browser-ww-monthly-202011-202011-bar.png

“Most people” probably can’t name the browser they use. They just open “the internet” on whatever device they’re on.

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Ok let me say this as constructively as possible then: look at the downvotes. You’re not behaving appropriately for this space. Change your behavior or go away.

Toodles

The “childish game” is your post

Who needs clarification that !firefox@lemmy.ml is about firefox?

I’m surprised firefox containers don’t have an equivalent feature yet

That is short enough to make a great xcretion

I hope they rename Tweets to Xcretes

Hmm the idea of following lemmy along side rss feeds is compelling. I’m gonna try this out

I believe YouTube is going to start detecting ad blockers, and there will be an arms race

I think the point is that you can’t get more views by being genuine and honest, as the algorithm awards griftiness

Yes, but that’s pretty much the early adopter demographic across all tech. I would love for people to realize this and start talking about their other hobbies, not just how they run Lemmy on a toaster and are so radical.

I was just lamenting with a friend about how the NEW internet doesn’t feel like the OLD internet of the late 90s / early 2000s. See, in the early days your entire web presence was on 1-2 forums sites, or maybe some IRC chat room. You went there as a whole person. Yes, maybe it was a Sim City 2000 forum, but it had a number of Off Topic boards to discuss cycling or movies or recipes or whatever fit that community of people.

Nowadays we try to only interact with smaller and smaller slices of people in the interest of getting more people using a site. Reddit is the obvious example but it happens on Facebook and Twitter and everything else too. You want to post about your typewriter hobby? Ugh, get out of here, go post in /r/typewriters. Oh your post is actually about fixing a typewriter, my mistake, post in /r/typewriter_repair… oh wait this typewriter was made after 2002? You want /r/neo_typewriter_repair, which has 6 members.