Toasticus
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Toasticus@piefed.socialto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does watching or partaking in mainstream media make me uncomfortable?English
7·16 days agoI’m going to have to answer this based on my personal experience and I’d know because your detailing is very similar.
Mainstream content reinforces the idea that the world and society all but feel manufactured. They’re the things that got chosen to be popular, they’re what is going to be market, they’re what is going to be talked about and so on and so forth. Sometimes it is chosen but other times, there’s definitely a formula in the works that just gravitates people instantly.
That’s all fine and well. But if you’re an individual who’ve developed their own tastes and you’re not getting in any engagement with anyone about those tastes, you’re going to get lost in the fold very quickly because you’re not part of what everyone considers the ‘in’ thing.
Your last bit tells me that it’s a you-thing. You dropped everything that you liked, because why? Because you saw merchandise being made in a store? But it’s like, did anyone force what you enjoyed down your throat? You’re waiting for the hype to die down? I don’t get that, because all that you’re doing, is limiting your personal enjoyment and your personal moderation about how much you enjoy something.
You don’t have to go out, buy the merchandise, buy anything that so much has your favorite thing on it. You don’t have to engage with the mass volume of the community that gets noisy to engage. You’ve sucked out whatever interest that was left over things that are optional. It’s one thing if a series changes because of fan demand, that I can understand and it has happened to people’s favorite series.
But if a series is still going for what it is, unaltered and naturally enjoyed but still popular but you want to sit it out anyways? That’s kindof on you.
Toasticus@piefed.socialOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Has Piefed omitted some instances?English
112·16 days agoBoo-hoo.
Toasticus@piefed.socialOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Has Piefed omitted some instances?English
11·16 days agoYes.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What is the easiest way to calculate the calories in this bread machine recipe?English
8·16 days agoThe ingredients you’re using. They all have their own calories.
I got an honest chuckle out of it. But yeah, it really sucks for people surfing the net today and within the past 10 years. People like me who’ve been around for 30+ years, just sulk in depression for the state its become, remembering simpler days.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•BBC: “It shouldn’t have taken a lawsuit for Meta to implement safety measures, whistleblower says”English
6·16 days agoIt’s how I feel deeply about social media’s existence. Facebook, Reddit, MySpace, Twitter .etc weren’t ‘evil’ just for simply being made and standing on its own. It needed fuel and that fuel is in the form of the many thousands to millions of people who’ve used them for years.
And those same people have turned around and now put blame on said social media sites for how bad they’ve become. Never caring to realize that they majorly were built that way off the behaviors of what people did and continue to do on there.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the nameEnglish
32·16 days agoThese guys are a bunch of morons. All of the comments here are proving as to why.
- Associates with AI
- Wants money to use it
- Doesn’t factor that Twitter might not entirely be available after all
- Uses Musk’s other imprints, like Grok, on it which may subject them to fail
- More centralized social media is not what we need
I’ll give it a few months before they actually are sued into oblivion, to which they’ll have the biggest pikachu shocked faces possible.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the nameEnglish
3·16 days agoWhich is what could get them lawsuits. Such a dumb move.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Meta agrees to pay up to $17.1bn to settle claims its platforms harm childrenEnglish
101·17 days agoMeta maintained throughout the brief trial that it had worked extensively over the years to make its platforms safer for its youngest users, pouring resources into testing and research, and building new features.
No, you’ve made it a pain in the ass process to delete a facebook account. I’ve counted, you have to go through almost 5 prompts to finally delete an account. It’s simpler on mobile, by about 2 extra steps shorter, but that indicates that no, you did not work extensively to make it safe if you can’t make deleting easier.
Toasticus@piefed.socialOPto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•When you see corrupt politicians and otherwise shitty people living better lives than you, what do you learn about life?English
43·17 days agoSomeone doesn’t know what the ‘?’ means.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globeEnglish
57·18 days ago"YouTube said the hike will “allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.”
Bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit. They say that every single time they raise the prices. It’s the same dogshit excuse.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globeEnglish
251·18 days agoI think PeerTube should be for hobby purposes. I mean, here’s where I am coming from. I am from a period of the internet, where you were not meant to be e-famous. I still at times, believe this. Look at what happened when the idea of the tiniest bit of fame and success people allow to get to their heads when they realize that they can just make videos and profit off of them.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Was it really a big deal what Kyle Grass said on his birthday, that he wished the shooter did not miss (referring to Trump) in Australia? Kind of seems like he's been blacklisted along side Jack BlackEnglish
5·19 days agoI would’ve said the same thing. I mean, Trump has been spending every single day, rallying his voterbase for years, to commit violence among those he and they themselves, do not like. ICE has been treated like his personal modern day gestapo. I too wish that that the shooter didn’t miss, would’ve saved millions in America so much hassle, trouble, stress and division.
Toasticus@piefed.socialto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit fades from ChatGPT citationsEnglish
11·20 days ago“I bought a brand today!”
“Woah! So did I!”
“I’m so happy this brand has made my life!”
“Yeah! So it has mine!”
Fucking riveting stuff there.


This is what Linux doesn’t need.