kenopsik

kenopsik , 2 months ago to Memes in Ah, OK

That's why American conservative patriots love eagles so much

kenopsik , 3 months ago to Privacy in Reddit started blocking VPN users on old.reddit.com

It goes much deeper than just coffee shops and other public wifi. There are people in oppressive countries that have to use VPNs to get around their country-wide bans of certain sites, such as anything that provides access to information. Reddit used to be a sanction for tons of information sharing. But now, with Reddit going public, they have to appeal to their shareholders, who probably have business or other deals in those oppressive countries. So, even if Reddit is simply trying to force users to be trackable, it still behooves the shareholders to make information and knowledge more difficult to access to certain people.

kenopsik , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

Yep, advertiser don't care how they got those clicks. They just want the numbers to go up so they feel like their "investment" is doing something. Tricking people into thinking it's user content, showing half naked girls for a dumb mobile gambling game, showing fake products... they don't care. Advertisers only have one thought: "Hurr Durr Numbers Go Brr"

kenopsik , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit wants to raise $748M with IPO, sets value at $6.4B

Every day the same thing ad nausea. Fascism bad. Sexism bad. Phobia bad. Musk bad. Orange man bad. Inflation bad. Boomers bad. Cats good. Name my rescue dog. Celebrity good. Celebrity dead.

That's not just Reddit. That's the entire Internet right now. Reddit or Lemmy, X or Mastodon, Facebook or anything else on the Fediverse. It's all the same. We are living in a time of mass fear because of several different reasons. War, climate, economy, personal rights... pick whatever topic you want. There's a reason to be angry about it.

We need to go back to the days of happy people sharing their passions, rather than angry people attacking each other. But that won't happen anytime soon.

kenopsik , 3 months ago to Technology in To comply with DMA, WhatsApp and Messenger will become interoperable via Signal protocol

Wake up Neo. Follow the white rabbit

kenopsik , 4 months ago to Privacy in I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

Username checks out

kenopsik , 4 months ago to 196 in Genius

... once education is restructured almost entirely.

Not sure how you got "get rid of" from that statement...

kenopsik , 5 months ago to Memes in But I can't sleep

In this economy??

Fabricated poverty and homelessness, medical and educational debts, corporate greed and consumerism, accumulating environmental issues that nobody with the ability to make change is willing to pursue, non-stop wars, political turmoil...

I don't know. I think the dead have it better.