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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure the nefarious purpose one isn't actually dealt with by this and is an extreme outlier

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'd assume if you get legal action thrown at you though, it'd be a lot harder to deny if you also were picking a gender to get specific drivers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

So to summarize, it's not really a precedent or anything. The judge tried to give it as much chance as possible but they just brought a bad case that wasn't really worth the trouble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You mean the random selection signups? I think only WoW's first stress test was a straight "anyone can download" open beta....

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, technically it's only difficult because Microsoft doesn't want you to make a local account anymore.

The difficulty is by no means necessary.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Google search engine

"Hey! Install Chrome!"

Even with Edge, google is synonymous with web searching for most people.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So you don't care where it ends up, you're just whining about whiners.

Got it.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

And go where?? Most of the platforms either

-Can't handle it
-Have no monetization plan for content creators
-Doesn't support streaming for streamers
-Just hasn't been hit yet by lawyers

Like the only platform even close to it is Twitch, which has it's own issues and doesn't want to host videos to the extent youtube does.

This isn't like Reddit or Twitter. The competitors aren't remotely close and in some cases don't even support the types of content Youtube does.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (9 children)

As long as they stay the fuck away from notepad

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean, they're mostly indie and could probably easily be compared to stand-up comedians.

Which if we look at it's history is a very crash-and-burn career itself. I think a lot of them are entertaining. But it's certainly a saturated market where it can feel like a needle in a haystack at times.

And really, the issue with LTT, is an issue. But keep in mind on the internet we largely mock news sites in general for being uninformative and many being glorified blogs. It's not as uncommon as we unfortunately may think.

But basically a lot of what is souring you on influencers, either has already happened in other careers or is currently happening to others as well, just we don't think about it as much.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I mean I think it's a fine career, it's the name that's dumb.

For the most part they're just entertainers. The "influencer" name suggests way more than should be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

what did it take from internet forums that IRC couldn't have realistically already done?

Most group chats to me are pretty much the same as IRC was back in the day, unless you examined the protocols themselves. Upload limits are also much larger (except for that brief period skype was popular and you could upload gigabytes)

Honestly the only thing group chats are bad at is archiving, and it's mainly because it's designed for real-time conversation (so people are spamming more) and sites can't search the stored text at all.

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