- reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
- Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
- Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
- and twitter, and BlueSky
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Im not very familiar with bluesky and whats going on there (I know the basis of what it is but thats all). Why the hate with bluesky?
Yep, like @JayGray91@piefed.social said. BlueSky is beholden to the same problems that ruined Twitter. It exists as a business, not a community, and at some point it will try to cash in. It's repeating history
The word 'enshittification' is thrown around a lot, but its original meaning is talking about a process that affects venture capital funded tech, and BlueSky is pressured to follow that process, unlike Mastodon, Pleroma and other alternatives.
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Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn't aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans
X/Twitter/BlueSky I like long conversations with lots of information and while I use them now, itβs only because thatβs where people post.
Always thought BBC Sherlock was boring and obnoxious
... do people hate that now?
Haven't seen many people defend it since that hbomberguy video essay
Entitled middle aged women (Karens). I started ranting about them in 2007, I guess.
Hate hatred, I'm avant-garde in the West. π
One I hate that I am unsure of a term for but I call it "Family time" is when a show or movie makes everyajor twist revolve around the main characters family...
Star Wars is a great example that no one notices it in
Darth Vader is Lukes father Leia his sister
Both rolls could have worked without those twists
But it is far worse in other shows and series or even ruins them for me
Fringe was ruined by it imo
Slow horses is falling into this trap with season 4
It's a cheap ploy to try and make the moment or stakes more dramatic by involving the characters in ediate family as ploys or villains. At the same time it just feels out of place most of the time that the entire world these characters are in revolve around 1 family.
So many shows use this trope but I don't even see a proper term calling it out and at the same time it has ruined so many shows and just shows a lazy writing or plot narrative.
The author does not know how to write for the dramatic response they want the audience to have for the villain or ploy so they make some dramatic reveal that their family member was secretly involved making it more difficult for the main characters to make decisions or take action.