fuckgod

Do you really have an actual gaming computer if you have Windows, though?

The youngest siblings don’t even remember much of him. That’s one of the saddest parts. It happened 21 years ago.

I have nieces now that are almost as old as they were when it went down. He would’ve loved them, they’re the greatest. 🥲

7 down to 6 here. Sorry bro.

Everybody kinda already said the obvious answers, but I’ll pop in to reiterate that my main reason was killing the API (because fuuuuuuck their shitty trash app filled with ads- or any and every app that has ads at all). I got here (Lemmy and piefed and mastodon)as part of the mass exodus that switched when the ax dropped on that.

I had wanted to before that, but addictions are addictions. But killing the app I actually liked using (combined with the dev making a Lemmy version that was extremely similar), I just kinda rode the wave to the Fediverse.

So like others, I still poke in when a search result points there, but I avoid it in general. Getting rid of the app will definitely help because it gets rid of the 1-tap access to shit.

I’ve never been on TikTok, but I’ve heard creators that do both mention that doing so is because of TikTok rules.

Fuck censors.

Thanks to capitalism.

Tbf, “unalive” is only a thing because of TikTok, unless they’re pushing the same content to both platforms, when they have to go with the most restrictive version of their combined rules.

And even then most of the problem is keeping it monetized, not necessarily the platforms during it down directly.

But since videos are a career now, it’s a fairly effective ban on certain words.

TikTok is way way waaaay too picky imo. Personally I don’t want anything censored at all, for any reason.

Unless someone is going ham on a topic that’s triggers you into some PTSD situation, I don’t really think there’s a good argument for censorship to exist in any form at all.

If some idiot is using language you don’t like you just stop listening to them and realize that when you’re scrolling through an non-curated source of content, you will hear idiots saying stupid shit.

But the action taken on them shouldn’t be an effective gag, it should be just getting ignored. Once blocked and ignored enough, it’s basically a shadow ban. It wouldn’t be profitable for them to be offensive just for the sake of being offensive, but they shouldn’t be getting what basically amounts to fines just because they said someone "died"or got “killed”.

That kinda shit is bonkers.

I cast “invisible tether”.

This is not an actual DnD spell, but I’m wishing into existence because fuck all of these people.