BallsInTheShredder

Also work with cars and absolutely agree. Tesla may have kick-started the market but as a rule in general you're usually better off going with the engineers that have more experience under their belt. The exceptions being if the company is cutting corners to save money which Tesla is supposedly doing anyway so yeah, I'd go with the other guys.

Used to work for a company you names and even as a low level guy it was so obvious how immoral they were. Oh, your device is shocking your ears?

Checks "phrasing instructions"

"Oh, it's not your device that's doing that, you must have a health issues and should see a doctor now, that's crazy! No I don't know why it only happens when you have the device held to your ear and the shock us going through your ear!"

"No I don't know why your house burned down, it couldn't possibly be because the latest software update was to make your device obsolete by ruining the battery life which caused instability and made it explode hence burning down your home in an attempt to force you to upgrade to our latest piece of shit product because we made the first one so well that it never would've broken meaning no one will buy our new ones that IF you're lucky will last a year conveniently just in time for our newer even less stable piece of SHIT brick to drop!"

I feel like providing an email is a much better alternative to having your account blanket banned due to creating it at a certain time.

If not emails maybe just being stricter when checking to see if the one creating an account is human?

Yeah that worries me. Was definitely just a lurker at first while I got used to the place. They didn't ban me so I'm still here. Never had issues making or keeping accounts before but here lately it's been such a hassle. Instagram has taken to banning me immediately, I had to make 10 accounts in a row before they didn't immediately ban one.

Worst part is they don't tell you why and you can't fight it. I feel like it's bc I use a VPN then lurk but idk. never another account there, not worth it. Facebook did the same thing a few times until something finally clicked in their system and they quit deleting them.

Tiktok has apparently done the same damn thing as I went to use my account the other day just to be informed it was deleted or banned I don't remember.

Think it said to check my email, which I frequently do and there was no mail saying my account was going to be deleted much less why.

It's ridiculous and rather than making a new account I just exit the site now.

So deleting them all? I don't really agree (though I hope they were indeed bots!)

I think what would make more sense is to be more strict when users actually create the accounts in the first place. I feel like those "select all the images with bikes" are ridiculous, I'm human and half the time Google or wherever says I didn't get it right but there HAS to be a simpler, better way.

I get hit with those all of the time, I think everyone with a VPN does so a few additional steps wouldn't be such a big deal and imo would be far less annoying than logging in and realizing your account was blanket banned without explanation just bc you happened to create it while bot accounts were being made.

Would help even more if users had a string bot report feature where it was taken seriously. It could be pretty simple. See a bot? Report it.

The reviewer of the report, instead of just blanket banning should maybe contact the user first to check and see if they're human. As far as user retention it's better than just banning every bot we think we have.

I'm using liftoff ATM and haven't had the confusion you're mentioning (I don't think) but haven't browsed much. Maybe worth a try.

Waiting on Boost for Lemmy myself

Waiting on boost here too, Ruben or whoever needs to hurry up!

Same here! Was a reddit addict for years. Have been dropping my usage down for a while, to the point that I barely used it before the api changes. After the API changes I quit altogether bc I feel greasy every time I support them in any way. Then Boost my 3pa finally died and I haven't logged in since bc the official app is absolute trash. Liftoff has been a decent replacement so far but I really wish the boost Dev would hurry up with releasing their Lemmy app!

Other than that yeah, I've spent much more time outdoors. Even before the API announcement I'd replaced reddit with writing bc I mostly made lengthy comments anyway. Writing skills are pretty solid now& I think I've put in at least, oh shit I write about 3 hours most days and it's been a few years of writing, I've written around a thousand+ hours just in the past year or so! Very happy about that bc I enjoy it. Tbh if I'd scrolled Reddit mindlessly all that time well damn, I wouldn't have learned anything but a few random facts. Wouldn't have gotten better at anything except commenting.. sheesh. I like Lemmy and support it but think we should all probably reduce our online time a bit, bc as much as I love it, we really could be doing more with our lives and mindlessly scrolling the web is almost always just wasted time. Can't think of anything I've ever done online that's actually bettered my life in anyway, much less bettered myself. Enrolling in classes and learning? Sure. Scrolling mindlessly? No.. it's not good for us.

Yep, they killed boost, I quit.

On the bright side I like it here and don't feel ashamed of myself for supporting assholes every time I log in

What's the difference between lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml? Completely different instances? Sorry I'm new and still don't understand everything

PayPal is a no-no from me too. I've given them so many chances. When I was younger I once sold everything of value I had on eBay in order to purchase a microphone & headphones to record music. Upon payment, PayPal immediately froze my account for 6 months and wouldn't give me access to the funds. I was flat broke and had actually gone into the hole even deeper by paying to send off all of the packages, expecting to get the $ from the items asap. Those were my last dollars. Didn't even have gas $ to get to work. So PayPal froze the $300 ish I was supposed to get and I lost my job. Then for 6 months couldn't sell anything else, why would I? They'd taken everything OR be paid and it really fucked me up. Called them constantly and did everything they asked to verify but it still took 6 months of waiting after I'd done everything I needed to. After that I didn't use them for many years. Finally tried again and had similar issues fuck PayPal.

We need to be boycotting ads. If it's not for a vital service don't push it in my face. Ads are a damn plague and the internet was better before they permeated it.

Everyone that was on the internet pre-2010 knows this. What amazes me is some have been brainwashed to support them.

Commented about how YouTube should revert and become ad free once. People dogpiled me with "then how would it run?!"

Idk, how did it ever run before implementing ads?

How did.. almost any site get by before ads? Donations or just not being "big" enough to require so much. If you have a good site that people value they will pay for it.

If you're trying to sell something that no one really wants? Well that's why we have ads now isn't it? Companies trying to sell some bs no one asked for.

What's the MILITARY doing to prevent the 22 suicides a day?