!nottheonion@lemmy.world

“My heart goes out to you!” _/s

same 🫂🫂🫂

Or pizza, or adrenochrome.

Gwent is dumb! Forgets to do the quest to assassinate Radovid

Downloading that for all to enjoy takes courage!

Do the chuds really want every single protagonist to be a reincarnation of Chad Thaddeus Bradley?

The Germans at !ich_iel@feddit.de will love this one.

Using the more-than-zero-click internet of today is like sticking your dick into the mysterious mush at the bottom of a dumpster; maybe it’ll feel good, but it will also certainly feel absolutely disgusting no matter what.

This is unironically how half of the planet uses the internet. Do you notice anything that might turn them off from clicking on another 5 links to find an answer to their question? Just one reason for them to all flock to ChatGPT for all of their browsing needs? I don’t, because I’m part of the other half that uses an adblocker, that has an objectively better experience of the internet. But now that Google is turning the screws on the browser extensions, that half might also stop clicking altogether.

Then there are the cookie banners, the email-begging popups, the login walls, the top 3 or 5 or more search results being barely-relevant sponsored garbage, the dark patterns and so on and so forth. It just becomes too much to bear. Maybe not everyone is equipped with the understanding of the existence of enshittification, but everyone sure is sick and tired of it.

And finally, there’s the dreaded paywall:

Everyone complains day and night about people not fact-checking information across multiple sources, but how on earth are we expected to do that with every single story when all of the journalism websites want you to whip out your credit card (they don’t even take my bank’s payment processor) to sign up for yet another subscription that STILL HAS ADS. Of course I’m going straight to the Wayback Machine (which is under attack from hackers and lawsuits) or paywall removers (which seem to work less and less). However, once again, most people don’t bypass them or don’t know how to, so they either pay up or or try to find another way.

Today, our way of life requires us to ask countless questions which we simply don’t know the answers to. The fastest way to find them is through websites via search engines, but since shareholders value growth over profit, they all must be chock full of the aforementioned crap and bloat. The zero-click internet offers all of the benefits without any of the drawbacks. The nonzero-click internet simply doesn’t compete in time or convenience, even if it does in accuracy. If they want to have their users back, they’ll need to make their services not painful to use.

My little sibling would fight tooth and nail to play as Rayman in Rayman Legends. While the gaming audience has become a lot older in recent(ish) years, you can still find something very much kid-friendly AND memorable.

And George Orwell, in his grave, rolls faster yet.

What else bothers you? I’m curious.

Yeah, I didn’t properly understand how a clutch actually worked before I helped my family rip some bushes out of the ground with a small tractor some time ago. I usually stalled the engine when I was forced to stop, as I would forget to push the clutch in. I was also somewhat shocked that I just got to partake in traffic after driving around for 30 minutes in a rather empty area. The hardest part was when I went into a neighborhood where almost half of the road was taken up by parked cars. My instructor and I were very satisfied with how it went, and I also found it fun, even if it was stressful at times.

Uncle’s blood alcohol level directly correlates with his bigotry.

Thanks a lot!

Hey OP, where can I find this shave_your_eyebrows artist? My search engine results aren’t helping.

I just had my first driving lesson! I only stalled the engine a few times.

I couldn’t find a pie chart, but this list should suffice. lemmy.world has as many active users as the five next largest instances. I don’t think that you can make such a binary decision of “decentralization”, but it’s clear that they hold a good chunk of the active users.

My last comment was meant to be sarcastic, but I suppose that I didn’t make that very clear. I just find it rather annoying when new lemmings are steered directly to lemmy.world while hand-wringing about federation being too hard. It really isn’t.

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I walk like that sometimes…