Other programs like Photoshop lose money though. FOSS devs should just quit as they’re their own competition.

Was this difficult to understand?

Rules:

1 FOSS advocates and Linux evangelists aren’t welcome. -We ask that you block us. 2 Moderation is heavy handed. Try to stay on topic (that is LINUXSUCKS!). 3 No Complaining Mute the sub if users, content, or rules bother you *it’s ok to report rule violations

And yet the user count continues to go up. -It couldn’t simply be failed brigading and trashing could it?

I’ve noticed that a lot of followers on you community on Lemmy are being douches, they simply follow you so they can down vote everything you say.

The vote brigading is all tightly timed and an administrator could (if they wanted to take the time) analyze the voting in the data base and accurately determine what accounts are guilty based on the data. -Yes; I’ve ran a website before. Natural down-votes from subscribers won’t fall into a tightly wadded amount that we’re getting like that. (And people with nefarious intentions wouldn’t generally contribute to the user count). Lots of subscribers just ignore the voting, and bots may be involved. Users don’t need to be subscribed to follow (just go directly to the community, use a feed reader, etc).

If you look back at older posts, we have a great community here. We just have a lot more accounts exploiting the lack of rules, and software maturity.

Maybe I’m missing something, but that’s my perspective.

Graphs like these have been going on for years.

It is possible that the CEO came in and cleaned out the bloat of workers that just come in and hang out basically (common in the tech field and has been done to Twitter (X)). -That would make the salary increase correlate to savings. Showing a correlation between development and available funds would be pertinent. Just off the top of my head, I remember significant improvements since first seeing graphs like this.

Also take into account the competition was dismal until Chrome came along. Much like the game console market when Sony entered it, the browser market was hurting with a hole to fill for a strong leader.

Mozillas politics don’t help. Choosing a side can alienate about half your user base. Flip-flopping sides and you’re killing off your whole user base. Declaring dishonestly that ‘we can’t do this without your donations’ while making bank from Google (long time ago) doesn’t help either. Politics would need to come into play here and how much those are on the CEO.

They mostly appeal to Linux users (people more likely to switch out things), and almost every Linux YouTuber promotes Brave (which is shady af). Brave also has or had an undeniable corporate presence in the browsers sub on Reddit with weekly Brave vs *** for a particular category Brave would win at by low karma accounts. Firefox lacked that marketing, not for being a bad browser. Prior to, they had the FOSS fanbase influencing for them.

Statistics and graphs are tools of propagandists. There might be something there, but there’s often a bigger picture to be seen. Firefox isn’t a bad browser, and I’m hoping they can turn it around to gain marketshare again. (and drop all politics).

Any time I’ve banned people, it never was reflected in the users stat. -They weren’t members. We’re more apt to lose people from edgy posts (like King Richard).

We can’t control vote brigading and manipulation. -That’s a Lemmy issue that even Reddit has. I have noticed though that Reddit has rules about it, and bans for life for it if it’s proven (or they catch it).

Nearly everyone if not everyone has cognitive biases and areas where they’re not so bright. Conspiracy theorists aren’t themselves because they’re stupid; they’re mostly a product of experiencing distrust in an authority at an impressionable age. (Rob Braxman is text book)

Aside from one user here, I don’t get personal. I don’t remember names of people I’ve banned. They’re a victim as much as the next person.

I’m buying off brand corn chips and adding my own flavors. -Supply and demand.

Silicon Dioxide? -I’ve only seen that in the knock-offs like at Aldi. Here’s why I avoid it (and notice it): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8289701/

-Some alcoholics can get leaky gut from drinking excessively and apparently let it through the stomach lining.

This is why I don’t believe in butt-chugging.

Conspiracy theorists use a scapegoat or analogue. Example: https://odysee.com/@QuantumRhino:9/The-Secret-Rulers-of-the-World---David-Icke-The-Lizards-and-The-Jews:7

Doritos are using Stevia now, which is why they don’t taste as good. I can’t explain the price hike.

Nit picking that I didn’t write ‘a’ cognitive bias?

It’s good to consider your perspective. -Thanks!

I have all the CLI apps of Linux too.

Yes, newsboat will run on WSL, but having it configured to use other programs like yt-dlp, mpv, and a web browser can become complex and bloated. -I’ve resolved to use RSSGuard which works in Windows 11 but is still made for Windows 10. It’s much easier to add a feed (feed finder) or remove one in RSSGuard than newsboat. Other integrating CLI apps that come to mind would be Ucollage, or any TUI file manager. (Yazi works great natively on Windows). The overhead of WSL isn’t worth it for me as a desktop user.

It’s not Windows fault that newsboat isn’t developed for it! -(sound familiar?)

Lengthy? Do you not see the banning list in the OP? Do tell, how long did you last?

Failed brigading lol qq moar

One year in Arch, and 4 breaks (easily fixed though). Manjaro may be (or at least has the potential to be) the best distro for desktop users as far as Linux goes.

Common issues found mainly in forums, easy to look up (If on a PC and not a handheld).

The fun of playing PC games is most likely due to mods and using a keyboard + mouse as a controller.

Excellent points!

Some places don’t accept credit cards and may have a machine for people to pay their transaction fees on their own. Prices are better for everyone else as a result.

It’s a problem with the karma system and it’s promotion of misinformation.

Myths about cast iron were debunked over 20 years ago. There are scientific data sheets showing thermal properties of various metals. Kenji Lopez-Alt published reproduceable results of a flour test on cast iron and a clad pan. Many people have shown you can cook steak perfect in steel. An obviously fake steak posted there got hundreds of updoots. A perfectly cooked steak that I used an air-fryer (lowest setting) and finished in stainless got 0 simply because I posted how I did it.

-The steak sub on reddit contintues to romanticize cast iron for mythical properties (at least they did a couple years ago before I muted it) and will likewise down-vote to hell factual information that dispells their nonsense). -This sub is far from alone, there are many promoting misinformation (and Kenji romaticized cast iron in his book after 2 chapters of bragging about being scientific). -(just a single example out of many I could give)

-It’s what kept me initially from reddit alternatives. (They did nothing to correct the inherent problems of the karma system).

Vote brigading / manipulation is punished on reddit with life time bans, and even Reddit is not able to stop it from being a major problem. Other sites like facebook and youtube know to hide the negative votes. (you can see the positive through p.lemmy.world -maybe others). -So at least you can see that people liked something here.

The brigading would be obvious to admins here too. If you look at old posts in this community, they were obviously brigaded while the positive votes that over-took them trickled in slower and over time.

If I could, I’d turn the karma system off. People should have to defend their disagreement with words and let the reader decide. They shouldn’t have to go to a ‘sucks’ community to find out the flaws that get buried or aren’t well received in echo chambers. They should be able to block an unlimited amount of users without it breaking the site (I know Reddit will break).