walruslifestyle @walruslifestyle@octodon.social

@shoutcacophony right? how about server support for retrieving stats about toots and then let masto clients do what they want with those, which could include nothing (or, gasp, the ability for users to filter toots the way they want)?

@paeneultima 😨

@shoutcacophony ugh

trend?

@paco so why are you wasting your time? I don't think you caught my original point nor my clarifications so how about we bow out of this

@shel *shaves with your phone*

coworker: it's humid as h-ll outside
me: H-LL CANNOT BE HUMID THE AIR IS TOO HOT TO HOLD MOISTURE

one, two Google's coming for you
three, four better fire up Tor
five, six grab selinux

@bob @boneidol everyone says this and thinks it's intuitive.

but I've seen actual data. multimillion dollar ad campaigns that might have moved sales up by 1%, maybe. a figure well within the margin of error of how these data are collected, and laughably unscientific anyway.

so go on with your superstition, I'll stick with the facts I've seen.

hey boomers how about you clean up that garbage pile you left in the pacific ocean

@bob yes, as someone who has written software for marketing firms and has reviewed articles for marketing journals, I'm definitely naive

@patryk I've started emailing services that use recaptcha asking them to remove it. I don't have any reason to think my one email will make any difference, but if enough of us email or boycott...

love these arguments that boil down to "money is natural". please think that one through for a few seconds.

@paco uh, no it isn't? humans existed for approximately 250,000 years without paying for anything?

@bob it does not work, though. advertisers want you to believe it does, but that's what advertising is for!

@suetanvil @bob having worked a bit creating software for marketing people, I can tell you that the sane among them know their own business is bogus. the correlations between advertising spend and change in any meaningful business outcome are so weak no one in their right mind would believe them. it's superstition imo

big meta

lol at splainy responses to this

the compulsion to show people ads at all times and in all possible locations really is bizarre. how is that, of all things, what continually drives massive businesses? it's so meta and empty and undesirable to so many people, how has that become the norm?