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  • soulifix@lemmy.worldtoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldInfuriating Password Policies
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    1 year ago

    Places like Flickr can go fuck themselves because they want 12-character password limits. 12! Some people can barely even remember a 6 string password much less one that’s 12.

    Why 12? “SECURITY!” they’d spam. I’ve found it more secure to have a mix of special characters, lowercase/uppercase and numbers than the longer string of a password. Just means you’re going to increase the volume of people having to reset their passwords now and then because you required them to make it 12 characters long.

    I don’t understand why people would like 12 characters…






  • I feel like with Lemmy, it’s harkening back to a period of the internet where you can approach it and put it down for later. It’s not yet constructed in a way like all of the other social media platforms, that want to keep you invested, even if you know what to expect. Facebook, Reddit, Instagram, Twitter .etc all remind me of the days in the old internet, where you had web portals. These web portals were from MSN, Yahoo and AOL primarily.

    They all had things there, to keep you attracted to them. They had their search engines, they had games, they had news, they had weather and many more things. All to keep you in one place and to keep you from venturing out to other places unless you used their search engines before Google became the juggernaut of that.

    Social Media today, is designed now, to be like them. Except it’s worse because they’ve got algorithms in place that they extract the data from, i.e you, to pitch to you things that you may be particularly interested in just to keep you invested.

    For all of the numbers those social media platforms have, they sure do say a lot of nothing.






  • I feel bad for every user that hasn’t experienced an internet before all of this. Golden years to me, was 1996 ~ 2008. To others, far earlier.

    The only thing we had to deal with then, was just popups. Now, it’s like every fucking thing imaginable has to be turned into some subscription or retooled to be shareholder friendly. Because that’s exactly what everything is gearing towards to appease - these fucking shareholders with stakes. Shareholders, who constitute a band of people who have absolutely no knowledge or fucks given as to what made things as good as they were in past internet. It’s all about data farming for money to then market people to shit.

    Google had to go and acquire YouTube, things seemed okay in the beginning. Now look at it, fucking bombardment of ads if you aren’t using an adblocker. Amazon had to go and acquire Twitch and things seemed okay in the beginning. Now look at it, you’re meaning to tell me I have to sit through 8 ads, while you minimize a stream of a channel I’m watching?! AND You’re going to make YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION WHEN AMAZON PRIME ISN’T ENOUGH?! ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!

    Reddit was great until 2016, it broke itself over politics. Then it broke itself even further by 2020 and now we are where we are with it. Social Media, is running in place. It’s about statistics anymore. Has Facebook ever been useful and functional? I’m having a hard time now remembering when the last time it even had real people helping you, because now it’s just in some stupid half-ass wiki that doesn’t even have all of the answers in it’s own ecosystem.

    Everyone is too politicized now, almost can’t go a damn few comments anymore without someone coming up to you with an emotionally charged reply, that’s hiding in the background, the basis of their political stance.

    FUCK WEB 3.0 AND ALL THAT IT HAS WROUGHT!


  • It’s now a symbol of how deteriorated Reddit has become. I mean, yeah, you’ve summarized it perfectly. r/place is now the symbolism of everything wrong with Reddit. It’s repetitious, as much as all of the karma farming posts on Reddit have been for years. All the other places had contained a culture snapshot of everything that Reddit brought together.

    All that this version of Place has brought, is all of the anguish towards one person and their poor decision making.


  • And for estranged reason, the previous CEO will be missed.

    This happened to Gaia Online, where they lost their main admin for a good few years. Was remembered for basically just stumbling upon luck which got Gaia Online into it’s hottest peak within 2007 through 2010. New CEO comes in, practically decimates the site and it’s community with greedy practices. Old admin comes back, is practically worshiped, but really didn’t bring the same magic as before. Because again, he just struck luck and we realized that he didn’t really have a lot of good answers to bring the site back to shape.