oh no

Couldn’t they have made it bigger?

Fair enough, but endless feeds and short form videos are also widely regarded as dangerous to mental wellbeing, so I agree with them on that point.

But I’m more interested in getting people away from the adtech platforms, so also happy to see decentralised alternatives pop up.

The great thing about decentralised social media is I’ll always have my anti dark pattern folks in one corner or other.

Ok let’s hear your take

Oh I didn’t know that, they can’t just wave it away?

The email is 100% optional though. Also customer can decline a receipt.

… they’re just underpaid and under a lot of pressure from management to try multiple times and in some cases they even get written up for not doing it because it’s deemed part of their job. They hate it just as much as you.

I’ve worked retail and call centre jobs and I can assure you this is many people (at least those who are not too exhausted to care). These workers are constantly pressured to enshitify their service at the expense of theirs and the customer’s experience.

I haven’t worked a counter in over a decade, so can only imagine it’s got worse.

This is sadly very common where I’m from, except you don’t even get a discount from it. I’ve taken to just politely declining, since I’m sure the person working the cash is probably pressured to get people to give their personal info.

“And can get your email?”

“No thank you”

“I need your email for the receipt”

“I appreciate it but no thank you”

It’s a slight non sequitur while still being polite. Saying “no thank you” when someone is pressuring you works well in many situations.

I do love starting work before people start streaming in after 0900

I’m curious why not? Other than cash it’s all I use

It’s also about knowing that it’s so exclusive that regular people can’t experience it. Take away the pricetag and it’s isn’t nearly so appealing.

Veblen product, innit

Harder to quality control for though

I’m on 3 active forums and 2 lemmies and 2 mastos and I just leave myself logged in. It’s nothing like that. Somehow that’s still a better user experience than discord

If I’m being charitable I could presume that they left them so as to not disrupt sting operations

It’s like if Aperture Science designed a Dalek

Kropotkine was a sweetie.

I’ve started eating a fruit (usually apple) after breakfast, and sometimes as an afternoon snack, and that keeps my energy up, personally.

If this is a new regimen for you it might just be an adjustment period. But I’m not a nutritionist. Just some random bean fan.

Look at that tiny numstat, I’ll finish the review before the CI is even done

Nice. I’m into it (and not just because it’s on my home instance lol). This is one of the few things I miss from mainstream social media.

It’s not right, but I’ll admit the instance someone is from has an impact.