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[–] Prethoryn@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Lemmy is great but the majority of you guys have a, r/notlikeothergirls vibe.

Like you know something about the world and by saying, "I am not mainstream I am alternative," you are making yourselves inclusive in some way. You don't know anything the rest of the world doesn't already have some idea about. Some sort of secret knowledge. I think my favorite thing I have seen on here is people thinking they are private and secure on the Fediverse. Despite the fact you are on a self hosted instance of someone's hardware and handing your privacy and security to someone random or an entity at random.

Being inclusive is not how you educate people. It's how you isolate your knowledge and make people think you are a jerk.

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[–] Gnubyte@lemdit.com 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

People are so quick to forget. Back when Netflix came out it's appeal was offering movies for viewing online. People scoffed at it because TV was king and Netflix wasn't on TV yet, smart TVs weren't a thing and Roku had to be built as a middleman. "Why would I pay for that". No one believed in the products in the way that people believe in Netflix and YouTube or Google or even twitter today.

Today every tv is smart, YouTube has a YouTube TV app, all these media companies have their own apps like paramount and ESPN, and people are willing to pay.

[–] broguy89@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Are you high? Netflix wasn't online, it was DVDs through the mail that you kept until you were ready for new ones. After its online became far more popular than the legacy service, people were still pissed when they announced they were going to stop the DVD mail, even when they stopped using that original service.

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[–] AndreTelevise@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Who tf uses DA for furry porn? There are way better websites nowadays

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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What about 4chan and 8kun? Asking for a friend 😐

[–] winterayars@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago

Taught me to be racist :(

[–] boratul@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

they're gonna make a movie about this

[–] NutWrench@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They did. It called "Wall Street" (1987), where they told us that, "greed is good."

[–] peetabix@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Man, vines. That's a blast from the past.

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[–] tonytins@pawb.social 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

DA, the one half way decent platform. XD

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[–] PointThink@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

One of these things is not like the others

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