I’m an older Gen Z, but same here. I really don’t know that much but can torrent, so people see me as some sort of tech god lol.

My younger sister on the other hand, also Gen z, is so tech illiterate that her downloads folder is a mess and thinks deleting installers will delete the installed program.

Same, I haven’t supported them since 2020 but after this I’m never coming back. They can go fuck themselves, I hope their “Switch 2” fails like the WiiU did.

I hate to say it but my issues with Android Auto are part of what pushed me to trying out iPhone again. Haven’t had any issues with CarPlay.

I appreciate the info, this was interesting to read through! I had heard a lot of people say that they didn’t think there were any actual takedown requests, so I’m glad to get some actual info there.

Tbh though this makes your other comment a little harder to understand. So, you knew that the transphobe troll account thing actually happened, yet you treated the original commenter as if he was full of shit.

Like yeah, as you showed there were a lot of reasons behind the decision. But I think it’s fair to say that this troll was very much one of those reasons, if not a major force in getting all of this rolling to begin with.

Either way, thank you for the transparency. I was just surprised to see that commenter get so massively downvoted when they’re talking about events that literally happened.

Afaik they can’t just remove stuff from other instances

I’d hope so, because they never were a legal concern

If I had to guess they realized their initial reason was nonsense and went back on it. But who knows.

This isn’t just “their own research”, this was widely known at the height of all of this. Tbh the reaction here is super weird, but I’ve been away from World for a while so maybe this is just what it’s like now.

Edit: Here’s a post that goes over it a little. Not in detail, but just talking about that troll a bit more and showing some modlogs.

Edit: And here’s db0 literally confirming it

The response here is bizarre, to put it mildly. I thought everyone knew about that transphobe, and how this whole Lemmy.world anti-piracy thing started. Either way, sorry you got downvoted.

I’m confused, did people forget that this is what happened? The account that made the original post on Lemmy.world saying that they should defederate from dbzer0 was literally a transphobic troll account that had recently been banned by dbzer0. It was clear that they were just trying to screw the piracy communities for banning him, but Lemmy.world took the bait.

This was pretty widely known so I’m kind of confused as to the response here.

Edit: Here’s a post that goes over it a little. Not in detail, but just talking about that troll a bit more and showing some modlogs.

Edit: And here’s db0 literally confirming it

…what? In the US? Weird, every single person I’ve ever known in my 24 years of living in this country exclusively uses iMessage, unless they’re from another country ofc.

I mentioned it in another comment, but this was real in my experience. At least in highschool. It’s not like I was bullied or anything, but I was teased about it quite a bit and honestly it made me want to switch to iPhone just to fit in.

Eh, that was my highschool experience at least. It was never super serious or anything, like it’s not like I was being bullied lol, but I was regularly teased about it in my friend group.

Pirate Bay shouldn’t, but linking to torrents can at least give megacorps some kind of backwards excuse to come after them.

The pirating communities here don’t link to anything. It’s literally against their rules to do so. It’s solely for discussion.

Protecting himself from what? The community hosts literally zero pirated content.