Until we drop First Past the Post voting for Ranked Choice, we will never be free of the regressive portions of the democratic party.

TO BE CLEAR: This isn’t a ‘both sides’ argument. Only one party tried to overthrow a legal election by force.

That said, voting blue is only necessary because we realistically have no other choice under our current voting structure.

There’s a school of thought that youtube style content isn’t good from a business perspective, that all of those downloads cost more than they can make.

Mainly it’s because American bandwidth is way too expensive due to years of infrastructure and greed.

I’d love to go back to the days where you download the videos and audio you want in the background and watch it later.

It would save the platforms so much money and make competition viable.

But people are WAAAAAY too immediate gratification oriented, they want their endless stream of 30 second fluff clips in full HD.

A rare example of people profiting during the dotcom collapse, I tip my hat to you!

I think you are mistaking infiltration for ‘getting spread out too far’.

Nearly all of what you describe can be most easily attributed to planted agitators.

Also on a side note:

A friend of mine’s dad legit did win a million dollars in one of those popups. It was really early in the advertising days and I guess they were trying something.

Anyway he paid off all his kids’ houses and bought a nice fishing truck.

I doubt it will ever happen again but I was personal witness for it happening at least once.

That said, even after watching that I have never, and will never willingly click any popup.

I would argue that the fact we are nerds means we will more often than not be right, but be unable to say it in an ego soothing way to the gorillas in suits that actually hold the budget decisions.

audio ads sampled at max volume that multiplied every time you tried to close them…

They are the reason people started making products like ublock, and why for most of the 90s I browsed the web with javascript off unless I trusted the site or needed the service for the moment.

Now nothing renders if you do and you need 3 extensions just to not constantly be mobbed by ads

Just because we’re old don’t mean we’re wrong.

I remember the first ever popup I got and how it made me fear for the future of the web.

My friends roflcopter’d and said ‘it’s only a popup’

Now look the fuck where we are now…

People who only ever know the internet through smartphones will NEVER understand our pain.

They accept the modern ultra-cluttered short attention span theater moneygrab marketplace as ‘the norm’ and it fucking makes me ill.

I think a better metaphor is fermentation.

It happens naturally whenever the ingredients are brought together but in order to get a quality product you need ridiculous amounts of knowledge, process, and technology.

And even a tiny bit of the wrong bacteria can ruin an entire batch, but people will still drink it and go blind.

Fuck yes those memories…

I used to purposefully disable the error correction on my modem so the connection sound didn’t have that stupid hissy wobbly beepy part at the end. Yeah it meant that sometimes I’d fjhkswa thjasd ar eee e but it was worth it for that pure music.

Maybe we’re blessed for knowing it like none that came after, or cursed for knowing it will never be that good again…

If they really understood the phrase ‘too many cooks spoil the soup’, then they’d realize the advantage of smaller online communities.

Reddit was at its best when it had a low count but engaged userbase, and became actively worse as it grew.

I think this is because trolling and response isn’t a 1 to 1 ratio. All it takes is 1 toxic person to make an entire subforum rancid and takes the effort of several mods to mitigate it.

The more people you have, the more chance you will have these trolls organize, the more likely they will either overwhelm or infiltrate the mods.

Yeah but then when it collapses all the roaches will scurry off to other forums, including lemmy .

Personally I want it as a place to sequester the hard and alt right, like 4chan was before the digg exodus.

Every time someone pops the infection caul where they gather, it just spreads their toxic juice everywhere else.

Many would trade a lot to be as blissfully ignorant.

I am not even sure how so much hate and ignorance lives in one woman without causing her to have constant strokes.

There is desperate need for the concept of the Gnostic to take its rightful place in Christianity as a whole, there needs to be a reformation and I wish I had the resources and skills to start it.

There is such a stark difference between the compassionate, personal, and community-driven message Jesus spoke as compared to the insular, socially stingy, and hierarchical lives that his conservative supposed followers live.

And the sad thing is I really think they’d be a lot happier if they gave up on their worldly obsessions and bigotries and ACTUALLY read what he said. I know I am.

Shhhh don’t let the boomers know otherwise there will be no end to the prescription tide pods jokes…

^ This is what happens when they try that shit in a country without a 4 decades deliberately crippled public education system.

Kind of jealous ngl.

I wouldn’t go that far…

As a progressive Christian who hates everything MTG stands for, this is kind of disheartening to hear…

Compared to America, most conservative German politicians are damn near moderates.

I know for a fact that they would be called ‘damn libruhls’ by nearly every republicunt they shared their policy ideals with.