Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.

I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?

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      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The ease with which witch hunts can form is frightening. Even when streamers and influencers try to keep their followers under control it can rapidly become clear how superficial the parasocial relationship is; Cliques within the fandom will merrily go off on vicious witch hunts even as the streamer they're "defending" begs for them to stop.

        I remember the bad old days on Reddit when we "Found the boston bombers" or utterly ruined that person with all the plush animals. I don't even remember the details it was so long ago, but Reddit was forced to implement anti-brigading and anti-witchhunt rules after a few high profile disasters.

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          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Yeah that was something. There was also some actress who posted nudes and people found out where she was within a few hours by analyzing I believe the plastic covers for the power sockets on the bathroom wall.

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          • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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            1 year ago

            I don't remember the details, this was back in like 2009-2010. If the reddit museum or history of reddit subs still exist they might have it written down somewhere. I really don't remember any details, just that it was roughly the same time as the Jurassic Park Jeep incident.

            It might have been this, and the witch hunt was against the neighbors, but I'm afraid it was just too many lifetimes ago. God, nothing seems real anymore, how was 2016 seven years ago?

            https://www.reddit.com/r/MuseumOfReddit/comments/256guq/kathleen_a_little_girl_with_early_onset/