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Hah. How about this: trap 1,000 regular web developers in a room. First one to use a proper semantic element instead of a div wins $1 million.

Training AI models on AI content is the fastest route to model collapse.

Even more fun fact, if you never clicked the “enable” button on Copilot, most of those settings are locked to “enabled” anyway.

Nah, guarantee the models have rules built in to deal with obvious stuff like that.

You need to be more subtle. Give them information that is slightly wrong.

It’s my opinion that the modern web is massively enshittified, and was so long before that term came into play.

Too much focus on flashy (and often obstructive) presentation, constant reinvention of the wheel, and no regard for the actual information being delivered.

I mean, you mention “semantic markup” to your average web developer and they just stare at you blankly. They’re like the seagulls from Finding Nemo: DIV? DIV! DIV!

Useful information structures? Meaningful metadata? Consistent patterns? Forget about it.

HTML and JavaScript are part of the problem. They provide too much freedom and not nearly enough structure or guidance.

And even if you put all that aside, JavaScript is an abomination that is entirely unsuited to the purpose it’s being used for. Ask any JS developer. Or look at how many ridiculous frameworks have been slapped over the top of it in a vain attempt to address its inadequacies.

> Uses JavaScript in 2025.

> Complains about enshittification.

Only about 15 years too late.

You’ve been lucky.

You think Lemmy is better? Mods here are engaging in the same shitty behaviours. Lack of moderator accountability is a serious issue on this platform.

Edit: brigading just proves my point, you dumb fucks.

I got banned a couple years ago for the same thing.

Moderators can report reports as ‘abusive’, and Reddit basically accepts their word without bothering to actually check anything.

Naturally, certain groups have been exploiting the fuck out of this situation to silence opposing viewpoints.

You could appeal the ban, but most likely Reddit won’t read it and you’ll get an automated response.

As for the repeat ban, you’re running into Reddit’s ban evasion features. They use IP address and browser fingerprinting to track you, even when logged out. Easily defeated, with a little effort - assuming you want to.

I liked MATE when I last used it. I believe that’s based on GNOME 2.

Agreed. I’ve recently switch from Win10 to Gnome 3 briefly (LOL) then to KDE.

Some stronger selling points would be:

• The KDE experience is exactly like Windows. Maybe more so.
• It works out of the box with my hardware better than Windows did.
• It offers more UI customisation, in a pretty straightforward, unintrusive and (mostly) intuitive way.
• It’s more consistent and coherent than Windows, especially when it comes to ‘control panel’ stuff.
• Way less crapware, such as graphics drivers that come with massively bloated management apps, or a thousand different software updaters running at once.

Just like, uh, lightning would.

This isn’t new. Reddit mods have been like this for a decade or more. And the admins let them get away with it because they get free labour from them.

Bonus points if you use an LLM to generate said illegible nonsense.

I miss mid-90s IRC. That was far more social than any ‘social’ media I’ve experienced since.

Reddit has been employing all kinds of sketchy shit for years - including some fairly invasive behavioural fingerprinting techniques. And a lot of it has been abused by “powermods” who figured out how to game it.

Good chance these people simply said something that someone didn’t agree with and got flagged by some prick with a runaway ego.

As I recall, they were very selective in the hate speech they documented. Posts that showed hate speech coming from their favoured groups were swiftly removed.

They also use various browser fingerprinting techniques, and who knows how long they keep that for.