Figma Bal-
Uhhh… I mean yeah, screw Adobe, go Open Source! Screw Monopolies!
(To be honest, I never heard of Figma or Adobe XD, their supposed competition, until this acquisition)
I like me some tech discussion and freedom.
Thank the sky above for the 1st and 2nd amendments.
Reality is best seen as absurd.
Figma Bal-
Uhhh… I mean yeah, screw Adobe, go Open Source! Screw Monopolies!
(To be honest, I never heard of Figma or Adobe XD, their supposed competition, until this acquisition)
Man everybody’s hiking up prices. Where’s the money gonna come from to pay these, though? Considering thanks to inflation a lot of us have to use that money for more important things like… food.
About everyone (including several news sites) have produced false/misleading claims about who launched which rocket and how many were killed and all the other stuff, because this fight is messy, and both sides want to look good.
How many of those misinformers just copied from another source that’s supposed to be more trusted?
As if teenagers would actually go on a service that forces them to upload a government ID.
You could say the same thing about posting on Lemmy. Or a new game in your favorite RPG series coming out. Or Starbucks’ newest coffee flavor. Or any number of other comforts.
This is the “don’t be depressed, starving children in Africa have it worse” kind of argument. Please don’t.
Did not realize, damn… so that’s zero good decisions I guess. Elon has gotta be the worst owner of any tech company… probably ever, honestly.
Man, Elon just never stops, does he? He has made one good addition to what was a perfectly good Twitter (Community Notes), and at least what, 30 bad decisions? Has there ever been a CEO as stupid as Elon has been to Twitter over this year? I mean damn, even being outed as a child molester and forced to resign probably wouldn’t have been as bad.
Really? We’re doing this again?
Haven’t we all learned by now that there will always be a part of 4chan that will do something bad purely because they think it’s funny? Just ignore these people. If we don’t give them attention and doom about them, the five people on the site being little contrarians will get bored in a week, and they’ll stop doing their stupid racism garbage.
Simple as.
Honestly, the main problem for popularity’s sake is the un-diverse userbase.
It’s a bunch of techy redditors, the same way that many other services that splinter off from reddit are. Almost all the communities are literal clones of reddit ones. So for someone who wants a similar style of place and doesn’t have a hatred of reddit corporate built-in, why would they not go to reddit, which has the same kind of userbase but with 100x the users?
Honestly, other than “Open Source Master Race!!!111!!!111”, there isn’t any reason, especially not one that the average person will care about.
Another one, and I fucking HATE saying this, not enough zoomers dragging their friends along. This place feels like a place for the 30-something instead of the 20-something. Which isn’t bad, of course, but in terms of network effect power it is, because peer pressure is huge for social media.
But, separate from all that, do we actually want it to be that kind of popular? Maybe we should stay under the radar for the most part. Keep it from becoming stale and condescending like lots of Redditors can be. Keep the advertisers from sinking claws in. Maybe that’ll be better for the site as a whole than needing ads to support a service 100x the size.
Agreed, because for most practical purposes there are only two valid distros in the first place (apt-based and pacman-based)