I don't want to touch or support anything that benefits him with a million foot pole.

I hate to break it to you, but probably over half the websites you go to are powered by AWS, Amazon Web Services.

Wait... Submitters can edit the image of a Lemmy post after submitting it?! Wow, this platform is really interesting...

What is that black ball that falls on the right side?

IWNDWYT!

Indeed, disclosures are all meaningless. The only truthful ones are the ones that admit AI use; everything else is suspect. What an era we live in...

Fair, they can certainly hurt legit, uncommon thoughts... I use them as a minor guide but certainly not the end-all, and have spoken adamantly over the years about comments whose vote counts I strongly thought should be flipped in polarity (in both ways).

Well, it is a mind game, ultimately. We can never know what someone else is really thinking, at least with our current tech (which is why first strike is always so powerful), so it boils down to probabilities determined by track record. I guess this is why the Internet has made for such an interesting cultural time, because it's allowed never-before-seen anonymity and the brutal honesty that comes with it. All I can say is that you have to learn to be content with probabilities and statistics, because trying to fit almost any aspect of human culture and perspectives into a nice, clean periodic table will leave you with more exceptions than rules!

Or you could consult an LLM, I guess...

Yeah, I was gonna say it's neither a joke nor experiment: it's a bet that some people will try it and at least one person won't call for a refund, possibly by missing the refund window.

Mine tried Signal and then vehemently returned to WhatsApp...

All right, you go first.

Sure, though I think concern over misinterpretation is worthwhile! Generally, votes are an indicator of that, I think.

Oh, come on, surely you know the answers to these. Nonetheless, I'll humor you:

How does one know if another is mature enough to give truthful and honest feedback?

See how they provide feedback to/about other people. How accurate are they? Have they been proven wrong? What is their track record? If it's consistently good, then that's kind of a really strong voucher, no?

Furthermore, how does one discern if said feedback is actually truthful and honest?

Same as above; did you agree with their assessments of others based on the info you yourself have of those subjects? Can you verify that everything, or at least most of what, they said is correct? If they're consistently exhibiting honesty, then why is there any reason to doubt it with you?

You neutrally build a case proving or disproving their maturity and trustworthiness. It's almost scientific!

Wait, by "some conversations," you weren't hinting at the very conversation you have been participating in?

If so, you realize that you could have dodged all of those downvotes with just a changed comment start of, "Agreed. In fact, […]" instead of proceeding immediately with the "some conversations"... right?! Communication is vital...

I have no idea. I've never played any of these before.

Man, in that case, you should have recorded the sessions and put them up on YouTube with laugh tracks. Then they'd be hilarious!

Ooh, true. I hadn't thought of that.

So, if what I say is stupid, a random anonymous stranger is more likely to tell me than a friend.

Ohhhhh. See, I was making a specific distinction between in-person strangers versus online strangers. In person is a lot trickier to get rude over, so I had meant that those such people will try to be polite and downplay stuff (on average, anyway; I know there are Karens). Contrast that with people online and, because we feel safe via the guise of anonymity, we'll brutally say whatever the @#$% we want, hahaha!

However, I still think a mature friend in person is best. The friend you asked is not mature if they're not giving an accurate portrayal of the situation (that they should already have had info on/the experience of).

Sorry, I had vaguely felt like my sentence back there could get misinterpreted after I typed it, but I didn't know how to word it in any other way, so I had just proceeded. Haha.

I can't know the unforeseen consequences of it.

This is... amazingly insightful (even though we should already know about this through all the time-travel dramedies we see, lol, but I guess I just forget to apply it to my own life regrets)... What a great neutralizer of negativity. Thanks for the reminder...

The one problem with this app is that it has weird statuses for downloaded episodes, like deletion is separate from removing it from the queue, which I don't understand. I wish they could just combine these.

Proton's free plan only has one filter. One filter! That's ridiculous; they basically make it like a nearly unusable preview or just a spam box...