Paywalled! Fuckin Wired.

He also mentioned how they may benefit from having results that aren’t quite accurate, as then you spend more time searching, which means more time to serve you ads.

That’s an interesting one, give up a bit of user experience for increased ad impressions. Pretty clever, but breaks all kinds of anti-competition laws if true.

Right, but that’s exactly my point, the boycott worked. If you’re waiting for everyone to do the right thing all the time you’re going to be waiting a long time.

Everyone is all amped up about this and want her show to fail for “crossing picket lines”, but she didn’t go through with continuing her show during the writers strike because of the public backlash. What else do people want? What’s the point of a boycott if the boycott continues after the boycott worked? I just don’t think I agree with the whole “you have one chance to appease the internet and if you briefly step out of bounds or aren’t Keanu Reeves you’re done” attitude.

That being said they could’ve just found new, better jobs. They had the time to network.

Does it swap search terms just for the portion that returns the ad or for the search as well? If it’s just the ad, that doesn’t seem very problematic, just an implementation detail on how it chooses which ad to show. If it’s for the search as well, I don’t see how that would benefit Google. They wouldn’t be able to consider a search result click a successful conversion if it wasn’t an actual advertisement.

My comment was a joke because it sounds like a silly bizarre game

But it is a conspiracy that he bought Twitter with the intention of running it into the ground for the sake of those groups. He bought it because he got into an internet pissing match and when he tried to back out they threatened to sue his ass into the ground. The dude is a fucking idiot edgelord, it isn’t surprising that the only people he has left around him are similar.

You can bet your ass he’ll claim that was his goal the whole time though. Try to seem like a secret auper genius to anyone who will listen.

Well, did it sell any copies?

His donor was himself, Saudis only made up about 4% of the investment. He’s not making money off ruining Twitter, he’s just an idiot who got lucky in the dotcom bubble. Stop giving him so much credit because you like conspiracies. The evidence here is some MAGA nutjob sent Musk text messages… really?

I disagree, that’s not how OP’s post and comments read to me, especially because “disengage because nobody wants to hear from me” was mentioned as their solution after they claimed they only participate in 10% of conversations. But like I said, it doesn’t matter. OP can choose to disregard my comment if it doesn’t apply, I’m just a stranger on the internet.

I think you’re taking it for granted that if someone knew about the problem and tried hard enough, they’d be able to stop

Yeah, absolutely nothing in my comment even alluded to this, I even specifically said to take advice from others in this thread. Where on earth did you get this from? This is such a ridiculous and disingenuous takeaway from my comment.

Lol Facebookplus+STierPlatinum+

Facebook just hit it’s record high of 4 billion monthly active users lol

Why? Who would have the infrastructure and funds to create a free and ad-free Facebook clone that can take over the scale of the Facebook userbase? What do you think happens when donations aren’t covering your Lemmy instance by a wide margin?

I don’t have anything to add as far as advice goes, however based on your responses and initial post it sounds like you aren’t being completely honest with us or yourself. “I only participate 10% of the time”, “I highly value other people’s input/don’t interrupt people”, “I just have to accept that people don’t value my opinion”. If you’ve been receiving this feedback openly your entire life by various sources I’m very much inclined to believe it has merit.

You seem to be looking for confirmation bias here that you’ve done nothing wrong and it’s the people around you giving unfair criticism, just know that this confirmation bias is fleeting. We’re strangers on the internet, we don’t actually care how insufferable you are or aren’t IRL, because as soon as we’ve left our comments we can close this post and essentially forget you exist. It is definitely worth listening to the people around you if you want to maintain those relationships, especially if it’s affecting your career.

The best advice I can give you is to take this criticism seriously and follow the advice of other users who have experienced similar personality traits.

Haha I made an ass of myself? K

Hey man, you brought it up, can’t blame people for taking an interest

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And I’m guessing you joined lemmy.world because hexbear kept getting defederated? Go back there

Lol endless? I maybe see a few posts a week about China while the majority of my feed is American politics and American tech ragebait articles. And I never see people like you on those posts saying “wEll wHaT aBoUt ChInA!!1!”.

Bad propaganda troll

Gettin real sick of the forum sliding into “but America bad too” every time there’s a post about China doing shady shit on here.

EDIT: Two days after making this comment I’m still getting replies from Chinese propaganda trolls lol. Making it easy to add to my block list I guess.