It’s okay we just need to build community fabs. Anyone know how to build a fab?

The crime here was faking the play counts with listening bots, thus closing the loop. If an artist built a machine to play their own song a billion times to make them money, that would also be a crime, I suppose.

Thanks for the info, I didn’t know that.

Reminder to keep one of those window breaker hammers in your car.

Also don’t buy cars from megalomaniacal nazis.

well put

I remember when silicon valley used to build products that would help people improve their lives.

The reaper or capitalist enshittification comes for all industries eventually.

Meanwhile, my whole life, things have either gotten worse or stagnated.

Change is the only constant. One chapter ends, another begins.

I think we all need to do the work to understand the problems faced by different groups. Women need to be doing this too. This isn’t a thread about problems men face, however.

You answered your own question. The task for men is to trust women when they describe their experiences, even if it’s completely invisible and alien to their own experiences. Reading detailed firsthand accounts is a good way to build understanding.

I assume everyone reading this is informed enough to know that social media is terrible for people of all genders. It’s a custom hell just for you.

This is one thing I noticed after coming here from reddit- I realized I was addicted to how angry reddit made me feel. It’s another kind of dopamine.

I feel like people are nicer here.

To your point, I’ve come to realize that just feeling angry all the time doesn’t really accomplish anything. It’s better to do some things to take action. So I’ve taken to helping the angry people find something helpful to do rather than stoking each other’s anger all the time. I think there’s an outrage addiction element at play here, as odd as that may sound.

I don’t really believe there should be explicit bans on politics in any particular space, personally, but I do think we as individuals can do better to look after each other’s mental health and contribute productive things to whatever conversational space we find ourselves in.

What is the lemmy equivalent for discord?