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Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
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    20 hours ago

    I understand the struggle. I do. I still have an “Under construction” page on the domain I bought like a decade ago because I want a decent artist portfolio site and Wordpress is not the super easy dream they all claimed so I’ve nuked it like a dozen times. (And tried Grav, and Hugo, and…)

    But seriously WHY do so many great artists like, even ones who could afford hosting a dedicated page, ONLY have an Instagram?! (And now a TikTok ugh). One AI-decided account ban or rebrand or algorithm change or whatever and their entire portfolio and audience are just gone.

    It’s really sad that there aren’t more non-developer targeted FOSS projects for just getting a halfway decent page going. All those sites like Wix or Square charge a ridiculous amount and still give you a bloated mess that doesn’t function unless people allow tons of chonky JavaScript.

    /rant lol…

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
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    20 hours ago

    you can’t “leak” an RSS address so when you subscribe to something you won’t be added to spam without you knowing

    Ah, so now we definitely know why it was quietly swept under the rug!

    Thank goodness we have the amazing future now:

    ALLOW THIS WEB PAGE TO SEND YOU NOTIFICATIONS!!???

    –Every stupid webpage ever

    Unrestricted, glorious, arbitrary code at the accidental flick of an “allow” button. Normies everywhere getting inundated with random loud full-page video ads from chrome notifications that recursively cascade-subscribed them to a million other chrome notifications.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
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    20 hours ago

    If you used to be on gmail and you now want to run your own mail server you should check into a mental health clinic.

    No freaking kidding. I just wanted to set up an address to like, send me server notifications and stuff. Not worth the hassle!

    An ever-present torrential maelstrom of email bot spam has spawned so many hoops and regulatory checks it made this process not worth it. And that’s aside from just getting and keeping it running!

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
    2·
    20 hours ago

    Email is also fantastically based for “getting it in writing” when you’re getting abused / exploited at work.

    Printing or downloading emails as evidence? Easy peasy.

    Extracting message chains from some ridiculously long Slack/Discord/WhatsApp/whatever proprietary messenger app? Pulling teeth. Usually involves a ton of screenshotting.

    When I worked at a public library I used to have people screenshotting ridiculously long Facebook messenger chains because their lawyer demanded it all be printed out…and sometimes they’d demand the printouts faxed.

    (Usually divorce cases. Sad.)

    Absolute insanity.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
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    21 hours ago

    Nextdoor. Freaking nextdoor is the absolute worst. I only have it because it’s a decent “local Intel” source because nobody talks to (or knows) each other in suburbia anymore.

    But it shows you like the first 10 words of a post, and just opening the website on a phone practically locks the whole page with a “GeT tHe ApP!” Pop-up.

    Know what? Yeah I should dump it. Save my mental health. Lol

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
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    21 hours ago

    Honestly though, that sorta thing should happen more often. It sounds like a great way to demonstrate how fast misinformation spreads, without actually hurting anyone.

    Maybe some of those hit by that reality would think twice next time something sounds too good to be true.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•I HATE email
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    21 hours ago

    “Send this to 10 other people or YOU’LL DIE”

    And a lot of “I’m not superstitious BUT…” LOL

    I almost miss how stupidly innocent the internet felt with that nutty stuff back then. Most chain letters were merely annoying social experiments rather than ultra nefarious like social media has become.

    (Edit: lol just noticed a very similar take a few posts above me.)

    “Flashing headlights at cars is a gang initiation to help them pick who to murder! Pass this along because it’s better safe than sorry!”

    “Opening the wrong email might give you the Life is Beautiful virus that says ‘your life is no longer beautiful’ and wipes your hard drive! Tell everyone you know!”

    (Ah, when an erased hard drive was the scariest malware one could think of…)

    “Snd ths 2 15 ppl and push Alt+F4 and teh naem of ur crush will appear. (Zomgwtfbbq it rly works!!)”

    “I’m a missionary in South Afrimericasia and I wanted to send this prayer chain around the entire world to prove something wholesome and also send money plz lol. Look, Sarah passed it on and her life turned around! The divine holy power of email!”

    I had to spend a lot of time directing people I knew to a now-defunct site called “BreakTheChain” , and also Snopes. Usually the same people. Every time.

    And sometimes they’d tell me “Well I forward it to you because you can tell me if it’s true or not.” I don’t miss that. Lmao