So they should, child labour laws should apply to these kids just as any other business. The money earned from these videos need to be paid to the child. Even if it’s in a trust fund where the kid can take it out when they’re old enough and can make better decisions. Like child tv stars they need to only have to work a set amount of hours, no longer.

When I say this I’m talking about toy channels, I’m not talking about the mumfluencer channels. This kind of constant forceful filming of their childrens every moment should be stopped, kids need to have privacy, it’s known to be detrimental to their mental health when they’re constantly documented, and they are also far more likely to get bullied because of it.

I can’t begin to imagine all my bad childhood memories being immortalised thanks to a pushy parent who saw me as a money machines more than a person.

I don’t buy cheap shit, stop assuming man. I have never met someone with such a chip on their shoulder Get help

So based on a subset of people who are entitled you are tarring everybody in existence with the same brush. Affordability, cost of living and wages are a whole other fucking issue related to CEO greed. Which is out of the scope of the discussion. The fact you are so bitter about this means it’s probably time to find a new job lmao

Are you serious? Where did I mention buying things cheap? That’s a funny looking straw man you built from nothing. Literal premium flagship phones like Apple/Samsung have planned obsolescence It isn’t about buying a cheap product when a lot of busineses follow such shitty practices

Why are you blaming the consumer for a problem businesses have created. Planned obsolescence, doesn’t matter how many $$$$ you put into a product. It has a shelf life. Especially with more tech

Even if they could invent self-repairing appliances/phones they wouldn’t do it… Because then they couldn’t sell you new thing

The top left one is kinda cool, ngl. Not very effective but think of the jabbing you could do with it!

I used to like LG products they were often really good quality and lasted a long time.

That’s pretty much over now, not touching new LG products anymore. That’s for sure!

I had an LG CRT and it was as old as me. Never died. It’s a real shame the planet is suffering because of greedy business practices. They put climate change on the consumer but more needs to be done to big corporations to punish this kind of behaviour.

This is why I like dumb products. The smarter they are the more they tac on this kind of crap to them.

“They’re evolving! - just backwards.” - LG probably

That annoys me, they lost because “might be AI” are you kidding me? The photo does not look AI to me at all. If the photo was edited through photoshop or went through an art program couldn’t they have just asked for the original? That must’ve been infuriating.

Hopefully, Since thread is the new cool thing I hope it survives long enough to do so

Such a good content creator. I highly recommend. That and his debunking of the infinite battery but the solar roadways video soo interesting.

No glass would be able to withstand constant usage. Even the pedestrian roadways struggled with normal usage.

Not even just that… Alienates all potential leftwing/brand friendly advertiser’s through changes and being the spokesperson for the platform.

“We’re down 50% how could this have happened???” - Elon Musk

Dude needs to stfu, make an alt account. He has chosen to be the spokesperson for the platform. Spouting off conspiracies and controversial takes. You can’t be surprised nobody wants to associate with him.

He is a liability and a brand risk. Sure he can have his opinions but here is the problem…

He has chosen to be extremely public and force those opinions onto the average consumer feed due to his narcissistic tendencies and it is biting him in the ass.

No sympathy. He wanted free speech, (albeit it isn’t because he is okay as long as it doesn’t criticise him or his affiliates.) now he has his free speech platform but in the same way advertisers can chose not to engage with it.

It’s the best and worst thing to happen to the internet.

Best because - Twitter is a toxic site, with toxic people and a system that encourages ragebaiting means it breeds it.

Worst because - These negative people need somewhere to go… And it will only force them onto alternatives and fester in new places. Potentially here.

Microplastics are the new teflon. The new secret seasoning

I remember this from something awful first, that was the 00s lol

I’ve stated my points and I have nothing more to add. This is an impass in my eyes. There are multiple methods but we both have the same goal to preserve and bolster the Lemmy platform as a whole which there is nothing wrong with but I am hard set on where I stand on this. Good talk

In a place as vast as the fediverse can be and at such early stages you have the power to make bigger changes than you would on Reddit.

You have the power to shape the culture of Lemmy, can you ask the owners of these communities to change course? Absolutely.

Do they have to oblige? No, not unless the instance rules dictate they have to, but that is entirely at the discretion of the instance admins. Then there are a lot of instances each with their own rules and culture.

I think you’re being hyperbolic, but you will have diverse opinions on this matter, and the only right answer is what results in foot traffic for the Fediverse and drives interest. In the end our goals are the same but done differently.

My answer to why should you move is, you are going to need to change the mind of every potential new person who joins with an idea to lift content from Reddit, I commend you if you have the time to do that, but I personally don’t. It’s easier to shape the culture of a website when you have a level of influence to be an example to what is the gold standard so to speak.

You also have to be very careful because there is an elitest attitude that might push people away from Lemmy entirely.

I will talk because lifting content from Reddit is how mildly Infuriating got its feet off the ground in the first place, and has the subscriber count it has.

It hasn’t relied only on that, I have been finding my own original content and posting it there myself but it’s hard when I feel I am the only one actively contributing. Many people here still are very much lurkers and will only want to scroll through what other people post and not make their own content.

There isn’t anything wrong with that, but you are going to find people won’t keep coming back without things to keep them interested.

That said context matters, there is a difference between a hobbiest community, and somewhere like mildly Infuriating where it’s a place to just share things that mildly Infuriates people. Whether right or wrong, I do not see an issue with Reddit reposts or reposts from anywhere but I hope more people do actually create content… And I also hope the people in this thread who are against Reddit reposts are actively engaging communities themselves or you aren’t really setting up these communities for success.

I do not agree with bot reposting, I feel that would end in diminishing returns anyway, whilst you have mountains of content, you have too much content and it doesn’t give people enough time to build up discussions and drowns out people who will legitimately post their own threads. Meaning you will likely not see anyone bother posting at all.

In the end… Banning outright, doesn’t feel right. Having them exist as their own places, whilst not something I 100% agree with don’t think getting the pitchforks out and wanting them to disappear is the answer when you can make your own community on another instance and grow it organically. Then block ones that you don’t like. Which you will be doing regardless as we have federated instances that will not align with you morally/ethically anyway until they are eventually defederated if at all.

This is chaos, I love chaos!

They really scared about Lemmy? Being so blatant about this shit… I have learned the following:

• They do not like subreddits going NSFW it makes them no money. I for one welcome all furries and rule 34 artwork to Reddit.

• They do not like people promoting Lemmy, any kind of competition gets them trying every tactic they can muster, playing all their cards now.

• They do not like people deleting or removing data from Reddit. You know what would suck? A GDPR deletion request… That would be a real damn shame. No data to sell then lol