GrizzlyBur

joined 2 years ago
[–] GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

It is a matter of engagement. People like engaging with dumb meme more than data privacy stuff. Especially when people don't understand the ramifications of poor data privacy or understand fundamentally what the even means. Heck, even I don't understand what companies harvesting my data will mean for my personal life. I am guilty of ignoring data privacy posts in favour of dumb memes too.

It sucks, but thats why the term edu-tainment was coined. To educate people, you must also entertain them.

[–] GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

They should have considered the potential consequences of being born on that day smh

[–] GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Must really suck for the irl people whose birthday is on that day.

[–] GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (10 children)

I had someone post in the r/saskatchewan subreddit about lemmy.ca, and I had forgotten all about lemmy or that I even had an account on here already until they mentioned it.

Other social media sucks for sure, but OP has a point here. Lemmy is still at the stage where people only enter if they are told/reminded it exists. I genuinely thought lemmy died already. People finding lemmy naturally is very unlikely at this stage. It's word of mouth, so the people here gotta start wording and mouthing about it.

[–] GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I went ahead and made a Windsor community! Windsor is the city I was born in and I grew up in Essex County, so I felt a little left out not being on this list. While the community is named for Windsor, I figured it'd make sense to welcome content from all over Essex county instead of making community bloat for every town in the county.

/c/Windsor or !Windsor@lemmy.ca

[–] GrizzlyBur@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I canceled my Amazon Prime subscription over this. I still am currently living in America but plan on moving back within the year. Might even try living in Quebec.

Anyone know of good alternatives to Amazon? I know Canadian alternatives don't quite exist, but is there a more ethical version of Amazon anywhere?

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