I love how it’s apparently worse because she’s a “grandmother”.

Turning off hardware acceleration helps, at least in Firefox.

People not checking the community name 🤷 at least you know everybody agrees that the article is scum.

Out of date cache makes sense although I don’t think I’ve seen any system app ever above 3 stars (that’s why I even checked the Playstore page). Deleting the comment to not further propagate my false assumptions.

There’s a difference between being “in on it” and “knowing how sth is going to go”. Also, I don’t know, I have no idea how the man thinks. But insinuating that the entire thing was staged by ALL participants working together, as this post seems to do (and I’m asking if that’s the case), is a bold claim.

Are you saying Zelenskyy was somehow “in on it”?

Trade unions and legally binding collective labour agreements help with that nonsense. Also, works councils.

(Edit: There were two screenshots here, showing wildly different ratings for the app on the DuckDuckGo results page and the Playstore itself. The comment below kindly reminded me that DDG doesn’t update in real time. Duh. I apologise for posting too quickly.)

Oh definitely, but it would be mostly stupid and incompetent instead of so evil my head wouldn’t even consider the possibility.

Wat. I thought someone had given them the link and they posted it without checking. The thought that they may have intended a “prank” didn’t even occur to me?!

Goddammit. Well thanks a lot for ruining this silver lining in all this. 😠

But actual typos? I might see it using the wrong word because people keep using it (can’t think of a good example right now but like their/there) but “Minneosta” isn’t a word at all. A simple spell check would catch that.

Excellent point. Huh.

You want me to PAY for that?

Or Blender. Seems like every little update moves menu items around making every guide you look up unusable.

MySpace was way smaller than Facebook, it wasn’t even available where I am for most of its (meaningful) existence (I never had a MySpace despite being the exact target age range).

Unrelated to the topic: news media used to get someone to translate their shit for them so there wouldn’t be ambiguity about what the source says. I fucking hate that it’s now okay to rely on machine translation and hope for the best. I will not credit them here for noticing that something wasn’t entirely clear in their translation, that’s the bare minimum.

I’m pretty sure they used to do this, at least a hundred years ago, way back when companies first realised that there’s endless free real estate for adverts on the internet. Always wondered why they stopped.

You know how people often assume someone is trolling, simply because their account is new?

Another reason would be to not have a billion dead accounts on servers.

When I first considered signing up (I think it was on Mastodon), I was told how very easy it would be to move from one instance to another so it wouldn’t matter where I sign up - so I chose the first server that caught my eye. It was also implied that I’d need exactly one login for the entire Fediverse.

In hindsight, I’m okay with this not being true but it was a disappointment. At least moving servers (while taking your history with you) should be a lot easier if we’re trying to avoid big instances becoming bigger.