Ya know, some people actually only get on social media for curated news, to have actual conversations with other humans, or to share or seek advice about specific topics.
I spend most my time in tech, old home remodel, and local/hometown forums.
99% of the internet is trash. Pages bouncing all over while loading, constant cookie or login popups (even with various blockers), links not connecting, old long outdated content being pushed to the front of searches, junk AI slop non-answers articles or marketing lists about a problem vs actual detailed answers…
Then there are all the various billing systems for various marketplaces, that all wanna require memberships for one time sales, before they tell you the shipping cost.
And so so much more.
It’s all heavily dysfunctional and lame and not user friendly at all anymore.
Ran into this on newpipe last week, just loaded a webpage in mobile Firefox then went back to newpipe and refreshed the page.
Not sure about your situation, but there are definitely work arounds for some situations.
I only hate you because of the color of your shirt!
SOs HP laptop borked Win11pro OS, wouldn’t load or recover. Tried reinstalling clean but Win11 installer can’t see SSD. Driver loading during install results in install crashing error.
Linux, here we come.
Can not both be true?
I only pee in other people’s showers.
My grand pappy worked on parts used for those moon buggies. He was pretty knowledgeable about them and proud of his work.
Would be pretty shitty for him to have learned it was all staged.
He was a hard ass too, ex British Navy.
I don’t think it wise to hire people like him to work on projects you intend to use to lie to and betray the public.
Pretty sure it’d be more cost effective and safer to just hire joe schmoe to work up some gadget in his garage, or to handle it in house. Why hire outside professionals and actually do the real work to just lie about the outcome.
What is a reddit?
Shouldn’t ‘tell them off’ at all either.
Teach to the problem. Or moderate it.
Allow the person to continue coexisting.
If you want to invite them to reexamine their behavior… Actually do that, not the other more aggressive, offensive, and immature thing… Then play it off as something more.
‘fuck you!’
‘fuck me?’
‘no, no, that’s not what I meant!’
Just say what you actually meant!
It’s funny watching this argument.
I’m from a very hippy community.
I’m a collectivist.
I’m extremely far left & progressive.
I’m wholly anti-fascist.
I’m also 100% in agreement with you regarding including differing opinions regardless of how extreme.
Inclusivity only brodens the divide and limits opportunities for people who harbor extremist views to be influenced toward developing more balanced, functional, and beneficial perspectives.
Moderation can be used to soften their influences in our commuty while including them allows our community to influence them.
‘You people’ is typically defined by the attached action. ‘You people’ are the people who actually do that thing, whatever it is.
If you don’t do it, ‘you people’ is not you.
If you do do it, ‘you people’ is you.
The point is not about ‘who’, it’s an oppositional statement about the ‘what’, the action, and implies it’s bad, or more importantly that the speaker doesn’t approve.
Like: ‘You people, always with the child raping.’
If you don’t rape children, ‘you people’ isn’t you.
But also, the speaker is implying that child raping is bad, or something they don’t approve of, and something they don’t do.
Then you rule them out on those basis, not their general ‘right wing’ classification.
Include everyone, but exclude specific content.
The ‘go away’ or ‘go back’ BS is exclusive, not inclusive, and should be moderated similarly to bigotry.
I don’t expect it to bring change, but that wasn’t a rant. Neither was the OP.
And, besides, a responsible developer wouldn’t be on ‘unpopularopinion’ policing the language of the complaints made by their basic apps users either.
So I suppose we’re going to remain at this expected impass indefinitely. Because…
I’ve been in customer service my whole adult life. Every product, whether service, or app, or device, will see mostly complaints as their primary feedback.
It is simply human nature for a person to not mention a thing that works well vs actually act or speak out in response to issues that they encounter.
A lot of the time the customer is going to be frustrated while doing that, and that will be reflected in their tone and language. And that should be expected, and thus allowed.
It is in the best interest of manufacturers and producers and service providers to look to those complaints intentionally for resources to improve their products or services. And to do so with the knowledge and acceptance that their customers are possibly pissed off, frustrated, drunk, speakers of another language, or, and this is the most important one, not professionals in the relevant field.
Are you a professional developer? If so maybe you know how to use GitHub, or even what it is. Not everyone downloading a social media app on Play is going to know any of that, nor should they have to learn about it to complain when they have an issue.
This is a small platform made of primarily open source tools as a service to humanity by mostly good meaning folk. Inclusivity is important. And that means being accepting and welcoming to the less tech savvy. And understanding of their frustration when they have tech issues.
So, if you or any dev or service provider or manufacturer of any sort wants to thrive, I suggest learning to listen more, and police your customers less. They don’t tend to respond well to that, especially if they are already frustrated or disappointed because of something you are responsible for.
It’s a topsy tervy world where a customer has to concern themselves with a business opinion of them rather than the other way around.
And even if the service provided is free, or just a pet project, it’s still being produced and provided in a world where these things are true.
Regardless, I’ve migrated away from Blorp and will no longer be recommending it’s use. I’m actually going to be recommending against it. And who knows, maybe I am somebody, maybe me recommending a app tends to lead to mass adoption? It’s hard to tell.
I agree, Blorp sucks. I used it, and really wanted to love it. I thought it had great potential despite the issues I’ve had, and how definitely mid it is ATM. But thanks to you posted about it here, OP, and their subsequent comments, I now know that the developer doesn’t deserve my support or recommendation, so thanks for that.
I’m now commenting from a different app.
Bye bye Blorp!
Yeah, stop with that BS and pretend you’re a developer and not an emotionally immature grade school student.
In their complaint they mention specific issues, be an adult and identify those for yourself.
If they are problems you can resolve add them to your own to-do list, cause that’s what responsible adults do, if they aren’t problems you can solve then dismiss the complaint, cause they aren’t relevant to you.
You aren’t gonna come off like some rock star developer disregarding complaints about bugs in your software by getting defensive and specifically choosing to ignore an issue cause you don’t like the person presenting it or the service they are using to do so.
Grow the fuck up!
Private DNS service.