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“Look sir, my quest log is very, very full. If I get you this can of tuna, that’s it right? Just to that vendor and back again? This won’t lead me into some Dwemer ruins or Daedric temple?”

Gamer take

Not that this will convince you, but worth noting that Mojeek also has a Lemmy presence: @[email protected]

I like Mojeek. It even has an option to search without using locational data, which is something that’s important to me.

I’m pretty sure I was able to just go to mojeek.com, right click the address bar, and add it to Firefox. I didn’t need an add-on or anything like that.

Yeah, whatever happened was a totally disproportionate response to a single bad interview for an audience of people who were never likely to support the movement in the first place.

I guess it’s super hard to put one’s personal feelings aside for the greater good, and it’s frighteningly easy to get drawn into dogpiling and scapegoating a single person rather than pausing and reflecting on forming a more constructive response.

Neither of the communities ever really recovered from that, and in my opinion that says a lot more about the myriad users than it does about one mod.

This is so melodramatic lol

It “killed” nothing. That was one bad mod vs. a bunch of users who were determined to self destruct.

it did actively harm the public perception of the movement

Again, this is greatly exaggerating the nature of the situation. Even if it did, it was so minor that it could have easily recovered. It’s not like irreparable harm was caused.

The mods were misfiring for sure, but what made me step away were not the mods – that could have been addressed over time – but the users. My reaction to the video and what the mods said was basically, “Oh haha, that was bad!” and I think that’s where it ended for me. I had noted issues with the mods prior to that and brought them up, and no one seemed to care at that time – I even pointed out several times that one of the mods had a stickied post on their profile specifically requesting interviews – so it’s hard for me to believe that the users were acting in good faith. Why did no one seem to care before that interview happened? But everyone got drummed up into an emotional frenzy, and that sort of thing is what tears movements apart – not one or two bad mods.

I agree the mods shouldn’t have positioned themselves as spokespeople, but there were so many other ways it could have been handled without melting down.

It was Fox News. Even if had been a stellar interview, they would have made it look bad.

And I don’t think it had any actual impact on how people viewed the community in general. It’s just people being terminally online and blowing things way out of proportion.

I agree the interview was bad, but it’s also one of the most inconsequential parts about it. That’s the tiniest most petty reason I’ve ever seen a community tear itself apart over. It was like a bunch of mindless chickens pecking one to death because they saw a spot of blood. Definitely on brand for reddit though.

I remember people on reddit misgendering that antiwork mod for the crime of [checks notes] a botched interview on Fox News that didn’t even fucking matter.

It was an ugly thing to see all that transphobia out in the open like that.

Remove human failure points: We fail, get tired, and forget things. To maintain security, avoid relying on manual conditions and processes that you have to remember.

I feel like this is a big one. We all tend to vastly overestimate our ability to respond appropriately and competently in any situation, especially when so many things pressure us to respond quickly.

Except me, of course. I’m immune to this because I always do the correct thing, every time. /s

I’ve always struggled to understand why someone would pay the same price (or nearly as much) for a strictly-digital copy

Convenience. I’ve been in situations where it seemed easier at the time to just buy a movie on Amazon. For example, if I’m on vacation or a work trip and I really want to see something.

But that was before I learned about which sites were safe to use for streaming and had high quality content.

Also, I’ve learned that my library still has a large DVD collection, so I apprise myself of that.

I’ve never gotten comfortable with not owning CDs or DVDs. In fact, if I really really like a movie or album, I obtain a physical copy. If it’s an independent artist, I’ll even buy it directly from the record label.

And so far, I’ve been able to stream everything else when I just want to get my entertainment fix ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This must be the reason every piracy community I know has strict rules about not requesting specific titles. Even if they had the IPs, I’m not sure what they could prosecute, especially considering the number of users who use a VPN.

Same. Those sites simply don’t exist to me. If it’s so important that I see it, then copy/paste the content.

This is actually a perfect example of why we need to archive these things. Don’t let corporations try to rewrite history wtf

Companies issuing refunds in the form of gift cards is just straight-up insulting