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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
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    5 months ago

    As of now, having a Nitro subscription does not exempt users from seeing ads in the client.

    wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again? is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments?

    I ask, having instantly closed the nitro ads discord regularly pushes to my client cause the feature list looks roundly annoying and irrelevant to how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium, DMs, and an annual game of Quake)

    • Soyweiser@awful.systemsEnglish
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      5 months ago

      wait what’s the fucking point of nitro again?

      Remember when people used to smugly say ‘unless you pay for it, you are the product’ turns out you always are the product!

    • froztbyte@awful.systemsOPEnglish
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      5 months ago

      is it seriously just the ability to use more annoying reactions and upload slightly larger attachments

      and server boosts! (and better video quality I guess?)

      irunno the whole mechanic is a bit weird but I’ve been “okay” with it in the sense that at least it meant discord was getting revenue from rich-enough gamers and that would mean they didn’t have to suck on the VC nozzle. ostensibly.

      like I would’ve likely never bought nitro for myself because idgaf about the featureset, but I would consider it if it meant no ads. alas.

      how I use the app (open source project docs that only exist in this completely inappropriate medium

      yeah. god. it hurts how many projects have done this shit. and now I bet that exact fucking thing I predicted may start coming around…

      also, slack, ~1h ago:

      Free workspace content older than one year will be deleted

      Your workspace, <snip> , is on a free Slack plan. This workspace has content that is older than one year which will be deleted once the policy takes effect. Moving forward, Slack will not retain messages and files older than one year for a workspace. This policy will impact your workspace starting August 26th, 2024.

      the ouroboros must be hungry.