…pardon?

you automatically assume I’m some weird corporate drone? you’re not exactly making your case very clear and you sound patronizing.

I’m not entirely certain who this rant is for, but i can’t imagine anyone who is labeled as a “consumer of the internet and not a citizen” is going to take you seriously.

and for that matter, those with good heads on their shoulders won’t either.

Stop blaming random people for the bullshit that corporations do and get away with. you’re pointing fingers at the wrong people and it makes your cause look fabricated.

Better tech education would definitely help take some power away from corporations

If you truly believe that, then vilifying more “simple” and less tech-savvy individuals is not the way to do it. Don’t be angry that they click on ads. Be angry that they’ve been poisoned to think that behavior is normal on the internet.

Education is absolutely possible for those new to things like the fediverse. But education doesn’t work when you use those labels for people. It widens the gap, it doesn’t close it.

I’m not sure that categorizing people as “normies” is a great idea. nor is it a way to entice new people and voices to join and learn how to use the fediverse so that it can become a more reliable place.

i think blaming enshittification on “normies” is a lot easier than holding greedy corporations accountable for directly making everything worse. it’s surely easier, but the real issue remains unchecked.

if anything, it’s a good thing that more people are learning how much better the fediverse is. it helps the fediverse get stronger, not weaker.

“us” vs “them” is not a mindset that will produce anything except cesspools of toxicity. at least imho.

what exactly does that mean?

they’re carefully wording a strong email as we speak. a very strong email.

completely agree. not sure what the downvotes are for.

i would like to say I prefer Newpipe, but those guys have a pretty annoying bug that’s been going on for years now and it’s still not been fixed.

If you watch a video and then go back to a list and scroll up to the top, the app crashes.

honestly I keep a tab open with the list of invidious instances open. because every day I usually have to change the instance. or swap it around.

invidious is fighting youtube very hard, but youtube is fighting back. so its difficult to keep up with.

i would keep an eye on the invidious instances list. and change to a different one if need be.

i constantly gotta swap invidious instances because youtube is being relentless in their war against invidious.

but the ui is awesome and I use it every day.

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the 3 butthole symbol is really bad. fediverse already has a symbol.

stop using the anuses.

he hasn’t gone out of his way. he just thinks its irrelevant to make a report about it. and he is correct. thats not what github report is for.

these commenters are hitting this guy for something so small it’s not worth getting angry over.

they’re calling this guy a transphobe for saying “please take this somewhere else. this is not the appropriate place” nothing about that is malicious or transphobic. at all.

so I don’t understand. why are all these comments yelling the same stuff? did they just decide to harass this one guy for saying “take it somewhere else, please”?

I’m trying to find anything malicious in anything he’s said. I’m finding nothing but a dude working on a browser.

this kind of behavior scares me greatly. I know individuals who have been victims of real transphobia. this seems to be a simple language difference. and I think targeting this guy is a mistake.

Flooding and being loud doesn’t make them right. it just means they’re loud.

maybe I’m not seeing where the smoking gun is, here. I see a guy saying something akin to “can we not do this here in the github please”

and then I see a bunch of people blowing up and yelling about “dehumanization” over it.

…why is this such a huge deal exactly?