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If a government agency cant find them, they will be very difficult for average users to find as well

People like this should have to pay the legal fees of the defendants.

iirc, in the US at least, you can sue the people suing you to recomp lawyer fees.

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Yeah. I mean, I get it. The concept of the app makes sense. And I would be that, on average, it is/would be used for good.

On the other hand, as a guy, the idea that people are out there sharing reviews of me as a person on the open internet, and I have no way of knowing this, is deeply unsettling. Like, I haven’t done anything wrong - just the whole concept feels very gross.

I mean, this is literally the basis of the trolley problem, and the divergence of several major schools of moral thought.

Morally better? I mean, I think so - wanting to stay out of a conflict, to me, seems more morally defensible than actively supporting the bad side. It isn’t the perfect moral position, but I think it is better.

More likely on a factual basis? Yes. Absolutely.

Correct

I mean, its possible you’re correct. But my point is that, no, Grindr is probably not, like, run by the zionists. It’s just trying to stick to a good policy for anyone to stick to - don’t get involved in a conflict in the middle east.

You guys are all conspiracy theorists.

What actually happened: someone who knew someone at Grindr said “man, anti-zionism is really gaining ground on Grindr, huh?” The Grindr employee said “Huh?” “Oh yeah, its like on every other profile.” “Huh…”

Then a few employees chat about it, until someone mentions it to their ad exec, who says “HWAT???” The ad exec knows that the Israeli government is committing war crimes - but they also know that as soon as the right wing media picks up on this, Grindr will become the “the secret deviant app for jew-hating gay nazis”, and they DO NOT want to spend their weekend handling that shit storm.

Hence the rule.

You can still say “Pro Palestine” in your bio.

I think it’s more likely that a few C level execs just tried using AI to do their jobs for more than 10 minutes, said “man, this really doesn’t live up to the hype”, and wisely decided to hold off until AI wasn’t a huge waste of time.

No, people are fine reading long comments, or just scrolling past them. Lemmy also has collapsible comments to make this easier. No one is down voting your comment because it is long. They are down voting it because you didn’t write it.

I miss the good ol days when I could have a nice chat with the neighborhood cashier while I bought my used panties.

It’s okay. We all make mistakes sometimes.

And yet its fanbase will keep dragging it backward

I mean, what is actually needed is a secure messaging app that scrapes wraps existing apps. So when two people send messages through FancyMessages, they are secure. But then if only one person has FancyMessages, and the other has Facebook messenger, then they could still comminicate - the FB user using Messenger as usual, and our hero’s FancyMessages app picking up the FB messages and passing them on through the FancyMessages UI.

This seems like a flaw in the design of the platform…

You aren’t wrong. But being a social media influencer is something almost no one would accidentally fall into. People who do it intentionally are doing it to chase a dream of fame and fortune and glamor - but because there is a limited amount of attention in the world and it is highly concentrated, you are really rolling the dice on a dream if you decide to commit to it. There is a very high probability that even if you put your whole heart and soul into it and did everything perfectly, you will still never achieve much more financial success than a child’s lemonade stand.

It’s basically the same thing as wanting to be a blockbuster film actor or a rock star or an NBA player. If you are struggling and unsuccessful… Well yeah, that’s exactly what everyone told you would happen. Go get a different job. And if you are successful and famous and making tons of money - “oh no, boohoo, it must be so hard to be successful beyond your wildest dreams.”

Speaking of rainbow parties - that was actually a great idea. How come we never do that?

Next they pay attention and learn algebra