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  • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.catoSync for Lemmy@lemmy.world•Mark read on scroll is not workingEnglish
    2 years

    I’ve been using sync since 2017ish or so and the long absences didn’t bother me nearly as much because reddit wasn’t constantly changing like Lemmy is. I happily paid for sync for reddit, but I won’t pay for sync for Lemmy until he commits to at least fixing annoying small issues whenever a new Lemmy version drops. I’ve defended the author in the past but I’m honestly getting quite frustrated with the lack of updates and radio silence for months at a time while Lemmy is dropping updates quite often. I don’t care about new features, just maintain parity with the latest Lemmy version, I’m sick of my posts showing as unread when I know I’ve read them.

    Just small updates to keep up with new Lemmy versions, no need to make huge updates all the time, the app is already awesome, it just needs to maintain parity with Lemmy. Or at least acknowledge that he’s aware of the problems and will be fixing them, I don’t need a timeline but just a “hey I hear you, I’m working on the next update” would be much better than constantly disappearing.

    All that said, I still have an immense amount of respect for LJ and I hope he’s doing well. This is just an app for nerds, real life takes priority obviously and I understand that. But I’m frustrated at how long it’s taking to fix basic bugs like posts not showing as read.

  • AmosBurton_ThatGuy@lemmy.catoWorld News@beehaw.org•Germany approves global minimum corporate tax
    3 years

    “what’s the point of introducing new taxes against the rich? They’ll just find ways to avoid it so let’s just not do anything that might harm their profit margins or else it’ll make the poor even poorer”

    Then wtf is the solution? Everybody says this whenever higher taxes for corporations and the rich is brought up, that they’ll just find new ways to avoid touching their precious profits. Should everyone just collectively do nothing because “they’ll find ways to avoid it so why bother”

    This defeatist attitude pisses me off, something needs to be done to curb this bullshit. Literally no one needs or deserves hundreds of millions, let alone billions of dollars, and this cancerous “profits must go up every year or your company is a failure” needs to fucking die already. Why do companies making hundreds of millions to billions of dollars in profit need more fucking money? Why can’t being rich af and literally not being able to spend your net worth in a single lifetime be enough?

    We went from 1 salary at a factory being enough to raise a family, buy a house, buy a car, and go for a yearly vacation being normal to even 2 highly educated people working together and sharing expenses barely being able to afford a fucking house. Now the average person is expected to give a giant portion of their monthly earnings to pay off some parasitic landlords mortgage plus some profit for the “trouble” of being a fucking parasite.

    Eat the fucking rich. Enough is enough.