Reddit. They were irritating, so I left, but I couldn’t care less if someone posts content here from teddit or(apparently gods forbid) mentions reddit.
I do not care about whatever happens with that company any more than I care about Apple or McDonald’s or any other company with shitty products I don’t engage with.
Dude, Lemmy is literally Reddit Junior nobody using this website has a leg to stand on complaining about stuff from Reddit making its way here LOL.
Doesn’t seem like it, Between the slower growth rate, lack of profit motive, decentralization and community funded instances, people act much more decently here. Reddit was pretty impotent-ragey from the get-go without a way to tune out the bigots. On lemmy, places like hexbear are easily exiled. Womensstuff has bigots, i blocked them, done.
Star Trek vs Star Wars. I like both.
Blasphemy!
Sincerely, someone who does not watch either.
Cultural appropriation.
So… You’re offended. People are living out of their cars now. I’m more worried about that.
Also, the person being offended usually isn’t even from the target culture. They’re being vicariously offended on behalf of somebody else, when the actual members of that culture usually dgaf or like it.
Don’t get me started on “Latinx.”
Oh I’ll happily get started on that one. I’m latina. Latinos very rarely use latinx because it can’t be fucking pronounced in Spanish. If you must use a neutral version, latine is more common.
My understanding is that it was originally created in I think Puerto Rico?, but quickly got picked up and pushed by non-Hispanic (mainly white) people. To put it in perspective, 4% of the US Hispanic population uses it (2024)
Don’t use latinx
You’re not wrong.
Taylor Swift. Like, I get that billionaires are a problem, and her carbon footprint is huge. On the list of problematic billionaires, I feel like she really doesn’t do that much problematic shit compared to the others.
Musk is a Nazi that gutted the US govt, Ellison has a laundry list of major issues, bezos is killing small businesses and bought a news company to whitewash himself, gates was involved with Epstein and did some shady shit to grow Microsoft, the waltons single handedly massacred thousands (millions?) of small businesses with anticompetitive practices.
I really don’t think that Swift rises remotely close to the same level of degeneracy and existential threat that these guys do, yet the only other billionaire I see getting criticised as much as her is Musk.
"Yes, but have you considered the fact that she is a woman, women enjoy her music, and women enjoying things is a problem because they’re wrong? It’s like you don’t even have a vendetta against pumpkin spice! " - general underlying factor
“her music is not deep” - the opinion of men whose only exposure to her music is the pop songs that gets airtime, not the lyrical depths of the rest of the album that directly hits women in the feels
On the first point: yeah, I didn’t even want to get into the underlying sexism that drives the critique lol.
On the second: yeah, she made a billion dollars on her music. If you want to appeal to that wide of an audience, you’re going to need to pump out some generic shit, at least on occasion. It’s not really a great criticism of her, because that’s her main skill. She can throw together 10 somewhat specific songs to cater to the fan base, then 2 tracks that get massive airtime and hook more people into the fan base. She’s literally the best at it by the numbers.
She’s by far out striped every other performer ever in marketing her “brand” and general business sense.
No different than Lady Gaga’s method which I feel took off a little sooner. The pop funds the art. I appreciate Swift’s singing ability, but I enjoy Gaga’s range when she makes her actual music. The theatrics, peaking with the meat suit? Just marketing to make her name the name to invite.
Was about to downvote, before I looked at the community. This is not an unpopular opinion
The moral failings of celebrities and creators who’ve been dead for decades.
Save your outrage for things that are happening now, that you still have a chance to change.
Being interested in celebrity gossip is not mutually exclusive to caring about politics or more meaningful things, but I understand why people don’t care about celebrity gossip.
I see this a lot here and it’s curious! Because would you say the same about other hobbies? That they’re a waste of energy because that could be applied to changing things now?
I’m specifically talking about dead celebrities. People like to point out that HP Lovecraft was racist, Gary Gygax was sexist and Clark Gable was fascist. All true and well-known, but it’s much too late to change their minds about it. Whereas racism, sexism and fascism are going on outside our windows right now and can still be affected.
Ahh I did miss that you meant specifically dead celebrities. Fair enough! Thanks for clarifying!
Sony discontinuing physical media.
I haven’t bought a physical game for any platform in I don’t even know how many years and I doubt I ever will again.
I think I wrote this in a few hundred comments already. It’s a little weird people make it about physical games, it’s not really about that, physical games are dead on PC, barely anyone cares. It’s about Sony locking people into the Playstation Store and having full control over prices. With physical copies you can buy them wherever you want and they usually go down in price relatively quickly after release. Digital store prices remain high for years after release and only drop sometimes during sales, but even then they drop to the level of physical copies. The other issue are used games, at the moment that only works with physical copies.
I think it’s more about access. There’s a lot of countries that rely on physical media because the online store doesn’t exist for them.
That doesn’t bother me. If a price is higher than I want to pay, I’ll just not pay it and go play something else. There’s so much more gaming out there than anybody could ever have time to get through in a hundred lifetimes.
Same here. In fact I own almost no physical media anymore except for a few rare CD’s and vinyl. All my games are digital.
The argument that this damages the preowned game market is valid to a point. Though anymore any time I shop for preowned games they’re close enough in price to new games that I don’t see the point. And if that level of greed has infiltrated that market, maybe it deserves to die.
I know someone is going to yell at me about that but that’s kinda how I see it.
You don’t care because you don’t buy physical games. I don’t care because I resolved not to give Sony a single red cent ever again some time in about 2005. We are not the same.
Same but it’s also about game preservation which is threatened with this decision.
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My personal annoyance is with the hubris required to think you can write LOTR lore better than Tolkien. All the money in the history of the universe couldn’t facilitate that. Amazon sucks.
YES.
I wish more people could understand that you can just… not consume something. You not liking it doesn’t make it bad and it doesn’t make other people inferior for enjoying it.
Just scroll on.
Pineapple on pizza. I don’t even like it that much but holy shit, shut the fuck up about it. You must have zero personality if you think it bring it up
Yes! It’s not great, it’s not terrible, it really doesn’t matter anymore. It was funny 20 years ago. Let it go already.
You just brought it up lol
I’m not outraged at its existence so that’s not really relevant
You gotta admit though, those videos about Italians being scandalised by the sight of it are pretty hilarious
Eh, fake outrage doesn’t really do it for me
Almost any single thing about movies or shows. I don’t consume either and literally could not care less about any of it. Double whammy with superhero stuff.
What entertainment do you consume if you avoid all movies and shows? I don’t watch much myself either, but I still do on occasion
Maybe they just watch shows passively, like my grandmother does. She watches Murder She Wrote, Judge Judy, Jeopardy, but she doesn’t really care about any of those shows and doesn’t really absorb what she watches.
Or maybe they mainly read books or play video games or just don’t consume entertainment at all
It’s the second one, video games. I much prefer to play something than watch something, unless I am actively doing something where I cannot play a game, such as eating. But then it’s Youtube over any sort of Hollywood thing.
Video games. I would much rather control what I am viewing on screen. It’s not even about actively engaging my mind, I just much prefer to play something than watch something. I do watch things while I eat, but that is solely YouTube and mostly from creators who seem like normal people rather than anything with a big budget.
Similarly, I absolutely will not sit there and watch a Twitch stream either. I much prefer to play my own thing.
Sam Altman says “…”, Tim Sweeney is against “…”
I scroll past a headline like that every single day.
What a CEO or founder of a company does off the clock. Brave, Mozilla, Mullvad, Proton, GrapheneOS - I just don’t care. If I picked a product off of the CEO not being a dick, I wouldnt have any products or services to use.
The Brave one is hilarious because no one bothers to look into it. If they did, they would be embarrassed by how big of a deal they make of it. In like 2009, the current CEO made a one-time, $1000 donation to an anti-prop 8 campaign.
That’s it.
No donations to any groups since.
Brave wasn’t even a thing when he did it.
He’s also the same guy who created JavaScript, yet no one seems to have an issue using that.
Just a giant game of telephone where people hate someone because they were told they should hate them.
Pizza tastes great. Pineapples taste great. The math solves itself.
I don’t eat Hawaiian pizza because of the pineapple. It’s because I don’t like ham. Pineapple is great
If you havent, you should try my favorite 2 topping combo which is pepperoni and pineapple.
Or jalapeño and pineapple
Oh yeah, that’s a great one too
Most things. The internet is a rage factory these past few years. I got enough real things to be upset about.
“Shitlibs”
Weird fuckin’ american paradigm. I’ve simultaneously been called a shitlib, a tankie, a communist and a capitalist. Piss.
The more someone throws around words like “socialist” or “lib” as an insult pretty but invariably can’t even define socialism or liberalism, never mind articulate what about them they dislike.
there are definitely people who treat political labels like religion. Usually from a religious background, they dropped the faith but keep the framework for familiarity. You see it over and over and over again. Politics, fandom, Queer identities…they will be left, but they can’t let go of that absolutely punitive purity politicking.
The trend is dying out but, I never understood the labubu hate. It seems like the people who hate them dont even hate the worst aspect of labubus; blind box gambling. I just couldnt seem to find the rational of visceral reaction to a doll.
Meh, yet another influencerslop fad advertising to children, with gambling in it? Can sort of see their point, personally.
I never cared enough to inform myself about but I thought they were just overpriced. Good to know that it’s worse than I thought.
