john89 @ john89 @lemmy.ca

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I disagree, they have their place. Counterstrike, for example.

Call of Duty and Battlefield would be better if they followed Counterstrike's release model.

Good.

Why not just emulate and play your games for free?

French canadians are pretentious about the significance of the french language. They don’t want to admit it’s a niche language and they want to waste people’s time learning it in schools because they had to waste their time learning it. They don’t want to admit it was and still is a waste of time and energy for those who are not predominantly interested in specifically French/French canadian culture.

I guess I can just keep repeating this. No, it's not the same as learning English.

No, even adding it takes away from the explanation for the reasons I mentioned.

It's not about me, try not to project your own selfishness onto everyone else.

There are students in Canada wasting their time learning french because "French canadians are pretentious about the significance of the french language. They don’t want to admit it’s a niche language and they want to waste people’s time learning it in schools because they had to waste their time learning it. They don’t want to admit it was and still is a waste of time and energy for those who are not predominantly interested in specifically French/French canadian culture."

I feel bad for anyone who internalizes it after hearing it from someone else.

Looks like if I want to learn French, I'll be able to speak it in:

-France

-A few place in Canada that also speak English

-France's colonies in Africa

-A tiny country in South America most people can't name by looking at this picture

I rest my case. French canadians are pretentious about the significance of the french language. They don't want to admit it's a niche language and they want to waste people's time learning it in schools because they had to waste their time learning it. They don't want to admit it was and still is a waste of time and energy for those who are not predominantly interested in specifically French/French canadian culture.

Source for picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_distribution_of_French_speakers

“but not THIS kind of gambler.”

Pretty disingenuous when "this" is referring to someone who gambles once in a blue moon. i.e. someone who isn't really a gambler.

Otherwise, I mostly agree with you.

ActivityPub based platforms chug slowly and/or just don’t load feeds at all.

I don't have this issue. Maybe it's your internet connection or you're just lying.

As for why they’re waiting, they’re waiting on public release because they’re in active development. They are working with a number of independent devs. This is all explained in the ATP documentation.

Yeah, this sounds like bullshit to placate people like you / what you're told to tell others. This is not a legitimate reason to wait for a public release. Hopefully anyone reading this can judge for themselves.

As for why you should trust them, the question is trust them with what?

Trust them with "opening up the other services to federation as they reach maturity." Why are you ignoring this part and supplementing your own? I assume it's because you don't have a legitimate answer and you're trying to derail and distract.

Of course, you try to send me off and say "just read this, bro. It's all explained here." No. I'm here to scrutinize your support for this centralized, private platform.

Right now, your reasons for supporting it are incorrect at best and malicious at worst.

Everyone reading this: be careful of viral marketing. It's cheaper and more effective for these businesses to advertise their product by having people argue for it like this guy right here than it is to buy an ad on TV or something.

Right... if you're going to split that hair then you're just proving my point.

Over three hundred thousand million people? On all continents?

Still better than X and Mastodon, so yes.

Except it's not decentralized, so it's not better than Mastodon.

You mean aggressively lobby for right wing takeover and attempt to influence international governance?

I mean do whatever he thinks will make his business the most amount of profit.

You sound like a foot-soldier doing the dirty work for his lord. By that I mean, you're arguing in favor of a platform that only exists to make the owners of it as much money as possible.

Try to see it for what it is.

So... censorship and not-actually-being-decentralized are your reasons for liking it more?

shitty CEO

Err... don't be fooled. The CEO of bluesky is only in this to make money. If he could do what musk does, odds are he would.

This is fucked up. Homelessness should be a solved issue, but because we choose to funnel as many resources as possible to as few people as possible, this is what we get.

We should be blaming rich people for homelessness. It's their fault and they need to pay to fix it.

It's okay, they have more than enough of our money to do it.

Yikes.

It's okay, the US will foot the bill.

Geez, they must have quite the story to tell.

They've been captive for like a year and a half.

How is it better?

If it's really decentralized, where are the other instances?

Wow... do french canadians really believe that learning french is a way to fight back against America?

Just... wow. I knew they were delusional an insecure, but this really puts things into perspective for me.

Glad we could have this conversation.