Aliens would be really disappointed to find out we already have blue checkmarks invented and people don‘t care nearly enough about it.

Very good first half of an article that I resonate with. The internet used to be a lot of small villages where oddballs were generally accepted or at least expected. Those villages have been abandoned and bulldozed to make place for Megacities lead by corporations and something was lost along the way. Everything has become a little bit more lonely and less organic.

Unfortunately the author seems to have hyperfocused on their small Twitter bubble a little too much if they didn‘t notice how the site has been a dumpster fire since 2015 in anticipation for the 2016 US presidential elections. Musk is not a turning point, just a continuation of where the site has been heading for a long time.

Etwas mehr zu tun als gar nichts hätte mich auch etwas überrascht.

Youtube premium is a very short sighted band-aid solution. Because the more people sign up for it early, the more expensive and/or less convenient it will become later when the 'market is saturated' (meaning there's no one left who wants to sign up for it). When they can't grow their income through more users, they'll ramp up prices and shave off services. It's happening everywhere already and in the end you'll wish everyone advocated for adblockers a little more because by the time you're fed up with their pricing, it might already be too late to go back.

The fact that ‚Fucking‘ is literally written out on the map yet the creator still chose to censor themselves is fucking priceless.

Unreal Engine almost has a monopoly at this point. It‘s also very friendly to use for small indie devs, not charging you anything for the first million dollars you make. Their license fees also seem rather fair as of now. But it doesn‘t help competition is flat lining left and right. Epic Games could feel their engine is worth a little more when Unity is gone too so I‘m happy to see many hobby devs give Godot a try first. I hope a company like Valve with their sheer infinite resources will see the shrinking market of Unreal alternatives and give their engine development a serious push. We really need more diversity when it comes to Engines.

You don‘t get it. Huawei and the CCP made some propaganda about how the sanctions totally don‘t work and claimed they were able to produce a chip that is 5 years behind. It is however more likely it was a big bluff and they didn’t produce it themselves. So their plan of saying „Your sanctions only force us to innovate and will hurt you in the end so you might aswell lift them“ completely backfired. The US saw their propaganda and probably judt thought the sanctions weren‘t hard enough if China keeps getting chips supplied to them. Hot water is a nice euphemism for what China is in right now.

Und es ist nicht mehr nur Grenzen testen. War es vermutlich nie. Er gewöhnt die Bevölkerung auch schon mal an seine menschenfeindliche Rhetorik. Jedes mal wenn er wieder die Grenze überschreitet, verschiebt sie sich auch ein klein wenig. Diese Neofaschisten sind leider unglaublich medienwirksam, weil sie Hass schüren und das bringt Klicks. Damit haben sie die vierte Gewalt schnell auf ihrer Seite. Genau so hat es bei Trump auch angefangen und mündete bei der Stürmung aufs Kapitol durch Neonazis. Den Schaden, den er während seiner Präsidentschaft angerichtet hat, wird besonders die Amerikaner noch für Jahrzehnte verfolgen.

Because Putin's propaganda is just that effective. Give europeans a reason to bash Germany and they'll gladly gobble up whatever you tell them. The Kremlin has been spreading blatant lies about Germany's energy dependencies since 2021 in preperation of the invasion and internet users have been repeating those lies like a mantra ever since.

Just a couple of weeks ago Germany reduced coal power to the equivalent of shutting down several nuclear power plants as renewables generate more than enough power and prices are down to pre-war levels aswell. Besides, last year was the most profitable for energy utility companies in german history, meaning most of the price increases were simply exploitation of the narrative that "war makes energy price go up". Prices didn't need to go up nearly as much, but media couldn't shut up about their scewed narrative. I mean international media still can't shut up about it, apparently. In Germany, everyone knows we got screwed by corporate greed, not just the war.

Weil der Tagesspiegel hier nur wenig hilfreichen Clickbait betreibt, hätte ich einen Vorschlag: Weniger Rage Bait und Clickbait in den Medien. Das ist das Grundnahrungsmittel rechtsradikaler Populisten und Zeitungen wie der Tagesspiegel bauschen die AfD seit Monaten nur zu gerne auf bis sie wirklich sie groß und mächtig sind, wie sie behaupten. Für ein paar Klicks fällt man der Demokratie in den Rücken und merkt seine eigene Rolle in diesem Plot vermutlich noch nicht ein mal.

Habe gestern mal geschaut ob meine Comet app noch funktioniert weil ich neugierig war und sie funktioniert wohl noch. Habe dann mal ein bisschen herum gescrollt und was soll ich sagen? Massenweise Reposts, über die sich auch beschwert wird. Dann noch (und das ist in der Menge wirklich neu) überall Typos, die Nachweislich für mehr Interaktionen sorgen, weil Leute und besonders Redditoren gerne OP korrigieren, auch wenn man den Titel nicht mehr ändern kann. Und haufenweise Meme-Kommentare, die 1 zu 1 copy/paste sein müssen.

Nicht, dass es hier keine ordentliche Menge Bots geben wird, aber bei Reddit sieht es gewollt aus. Es ist ziemlich armseelig.

Könnte das der Startschuss für zwiebelmett in den Vereinigten Staaten sein? Ist ja alles klinisch sauber, also sollten selbst die pingeligen Amerikaner damit kein Problem mehr haben, oder?