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"Oh shit that was embarrassing, better pretend to be smugly aloof and then 'abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past'."

Literally every time. Do you people get a phrasebook or something?

Yeah I assume it's some kind of rate limiting, but Catbox has had this issue and others since before the pandemic. I don't think it's built on a strong foundation, which sucks because a donation-driven non-corporate image hosting service is an objective good, but the single most important thing about any service is being able to use it in the first place.

What, like there's some kind of ethical standard of consumerism that people are failing to live up to? Take the corporate dick out of your throat and take your L with dignity instead of grasping at straws to be Right and "win" an online argument. Why even try? You really think you're gonna be the guy who changes people's hearts and minds and has them say "yes, it's actually the changing whims of the market that drive corporations to produce waste, they definitely don't forcibly create their own market through manipulation and abuse"? Are you really trying to be the Rosa Parks of convincing people that there is ever even one case where a corporation isn't automatically to blame for the existence of their own fucking product? You think consumers should just "not buy", yet you don't say that companies should just ignore the market and release new products less frequently? "Oh well that's not realistic because they're just not gonna do that" you're going to say, willfully uncomprehending that you're reinforcing my point and pretending you just got a gotcha. Get real.

the fediverse has this reputation of being unfriendly which push (sic) newcomers away

What I was doing was being generous. I'm not going to shed any tears if people who spend all day on Facebook and Instagram think the fediverse is too hard to figure out and too unfriendly. Barriers to entry are a good thing when you have barbarians at the gate. That mostly means the drooling masses from corporate social media who ruin everything they touch, but it also means le epic wholesome keanu chungus morons from reddit and beard-stroking corporatist pontificators from slashdot and hacker news. The dweeb I was responding to is from the latter camp, and I really don't feel any obligation to help make the fediverse into a place where people like him can expect a positive reception for pinching off loafs like his opinion.

NO ONE IS IMMUNE

Sorry but I'm built different

Ultimately, if you don't want to buy a new phone, don't.

Could you have made a more vacuous comment? Obviously people shouldn't buy every new toy that comes out, that doesn't change the fact that 90% of the blame—and 90% is a hard floor—belongs to the people who waste the Earth's resources pinching it off in the first place and then waste even more in protectionism and generally making sure there are as few viable alternatives as possible.

Yeah, an Italian F-35: the plane wouldn't be able to take off even if the pilot was there instead of being an hour and 40 minutes late at a café

Catbox refuses to load if you're on a VPN and is therefore worthless

That's offensive, they prefer to be called Log Cabin Republicans

Not in any meaningful way, you shouldn't use a file host as an image host or you get shit like this where the file won't stream on all platforms and asks you to download it. We should have closed the WWW to new users in 2000.

"Best we can do is tell you to kill yourself"

TO ME THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS