Everywhere I go I see fucking thorns!

IIRC, no, they don’t. They put the onus of proving the project is legit on the project maker and on the backers to be vigilant not falling for too good to be true projects.

Over the years kickstarter has become just another big marketing platform for big brands (for their niche) and pushing out smaller projects.

As a former serial backer, over the years I “only” have backed 40 or so (I don’t remember the exact number and don’t want to check now) and only 2 that failed to deliver. One, in hindsight, is blatantly a scam and kickstarter didn’t do anything about it. The other one that didn’t deliver is just mismanagement. At least it looked like it. Could still be a scam.

I haven’t checked how big the ones that I still frequent there (like /r/manybaggers and /r/onebag) but they do still have organic real people posts. Anything news, tech, or politics, anything of that size, I just abandon any hope they’re not troll infested and LLM bots. Not to mention meme subs and themed artwork subs. Just full of vote farming bots. I need the art source, you dinguses!

On the bright side, /r/sbcgaming have a comms here and can also tie into retrogaming

As well as flashlights.

Oh I’m just referring to Steam games. I’m a PC gamer just because I don’t buy consoles (because they’re expensive lol) and Steam just have great discounts compared to PlayStation, Xbox and Switch.

For full priced games, which used to be only $60 USD, now somehow $80-$90 — thanks Nintendo — is far too expensive for me. $45 too. $30 is starting to be okay. Oh and pardon me for not saying where I’m from but my country got cheaper regional pricing on Steam so I just use USD prices like tiers of pricing.

Thankfully demos are coming back. At least that’s the trend I see with indie titles

Thinking about it a bit more, some AAA publishers also are bringing demos back too

I t4ied only Interstellar and settled on Summit. Back when piefed social was new I got on board fairly early and interstellar IIRC was one of the first to have piefed support. Then summit came with the support and I never left since. Sorry Interstellar, Summit just have the UX I prefer back when I used Sync for reddit. Sync for lemmy didn’t have piefed support back then.

Sync was borderline abadonware even as a reddit third party app before reddit closed the gates.

Only thing I want to add is outside of Japan, otaku almost exclusively mean anime fan

I thought that’s what Shorts are? A TikTok copycat

I’m same with you. I’m militant in letting YouTube know what I don’t like (on top of a lot of other adblocking and tracking blocking. But I’m sure my threat profile is still too loose for some) so my Shorts are almost always what I didn’t know I want. I also use modded YouTube app and used a Firefox add-on to automatically force change the URL from Shorts format to normal YouTube video format. So I don’t get the infinite scroll.

If that’s on newpipe, try pipepipe. The devs hard forked a long while ago from newpipe and I only get problems only when YouTube does some new shit they try to block. The devs updates relatively quickly

But it’s not a fair anecdote / comparison from me since I haven’t used newpipe for years now

I have three or four folders just for tvtropes. I checked one and it could be 100+

I didn’t check the others and stopped looking at my bookmarks for a long while

That long while is still going

While I am still trying to wean off reddit, seeing the equivalent mail icon light up on threadiverse does not entail dread like on reddit

At least for now since I’ve only been replying to whimsical, silly etc. posts and comments lol

This is how I know he passed away?! Fuck me

There’s still hope for the rest of the world

https://www.autoblog.com/news/europe-and-china-now-require-physical-buttons-in-cars-will-the-us-follow

IIRC somewhere they also explained it in plain English what the sorting methods do. My layman brain thinks that’s a kind of algorithm.

Kindly correct this layman if I’m misunderstanding :)

OP, in some of your comments you mentioned schoolers. I’m making the assumption you mean scholars? Just trying to get some clarification

Edit 2: I checked the contact page for the dev and went through an archive site to check, and yep, I did recall correctly. it is the same extension. glad that the dev is back maintaining the firefox extension again! best youtube debullshittificator extension IMO

Edit: I’ve checked the version history for the firefox extension and now I’m doubting myself. am I crazy? (yes, I am) was it another extension I’m thinking of?

Wait, hold on. Enhancer for Youtube is back on Firefox? Correct me if I’m wrong, but IIRC the dev didn’t update the extension for firefox for a long time due to some policies mozilla have with extensions, and IIRC it has been stuck at 2.5 something whereas the chromium version gotten the 3.0.

I’ve had to make do with another youtube extension since it keep bugging out.

this is great news!

Idk why but this is sort of funny to me.

The FBI too recommends adblockers as part of general web browsing security.