Probably a whoosh, but I find this meme funny because about a month before the reddit protest, the was a pokemon go protest.
Niantic pretty much ignored public outcry much like reddit. They demolished remote raiding, which became popular during covid. This forced people, including those with disabilities, to pretty much obtain legendary pokemon in person.
This can be a huge task for those in rural areas and of course the disabled. Many rural areas just do not have enough of a community, or gyms, to meaningfully upgrade said legendary pokemon. Instead, Niantic gave preference to
(the $$$)people it could glean location data from, typically those in a city.Many people, we’re very disappointed and left pokemon go as a result.
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
I wonder if the two companies worship the same evil deity or something, jeeze…
All companies worship the same evil diety: Capital.
I’m not even joking. Unrestrained search for more capital is all that drives it. We’re at the point in capitalism where markets have been effectively “captured” and there is no more market to milk. The only way to further milk it is to “enshittify” it by increasingly bleeding the customers, in hopes that the customers you lose will be offset by your increased profits.
As they say, unrestrained growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell.
That is a very good way of putting it
Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey - History Repeating
It’s the 90’s/00’s/10’s all over again!
It’s a little bit of history repeating
It will keep happening, but in the Fediverse, it will be moving to other instances instead. The fediverse will be a bunch of defederation/federation wars.
As it should be, no single point of failure.
While this is true, if anyone uses a Lemmy instance that eventually goes away, it is likely they will have lost their post history forever. That kind of thing is pretty annoying. I get that their comments would still be out there, but it’s still not ideal.
Indeed. Export and migration are still something pending for Lemmy, as is GDPR compliance (export, rectification, erasure of data).
Yeah, to me that’s crazy that they have two full time devs working on it, and it’s been around for two years, yet it’s not GDPR compliant yet.
Time is a flat circle
