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Whatever you’re putting in the allow list is being allowed.

Usernames, IPs, etc.

Whatever you’re putting in the block list is being… blocked.

English is easy. Fuck off.

How was white and black descriptive?

I remember making a Minecraft server in 2009 and not understanding what whitelist and blacklist meant.

Allow/Block makes sense. White/Black doesn’t.

Or we can be happy they changed it to something easier to understand.

If you’re angry about a word change, when it makes it easier to understand, you’re probably racist.

I’m glad it’s easier to understand, and has the added benefit of PoC feeling more inclusive.

You’re angry because… idk? You’re racist? There’s no other reason to be outraged.

I think calling a block list “black” and an allow list “white” makes no sense.

Allow/block makes sense. White/black makes no sense. Words have meaning, let’s use them properly.

If you’re upset about changing the words to better explain what they do, you’re racist. There’s literally no reason to oppose a word change when it makes it easier to understand.

You mean Apple changed it to a water gun and everyone followed suite as to not have an issue?

Thanks, America, and your mass shootings.

Antisocial people.

It was the same on Reddit. All of the people who despised emojis were often posting in really cringe and incel related subs.

My use of emojis sky rocketed after I started dating. They are fun and convey emotion really well.

Tangerine used to have 4-6 digit PIN (no password) to access your online-only account.

Not sure if they still do. I believe so, though.

YouTube isn’t suffering. Lemmy has an active userbase of just over 30K. Given the fact a lot of people have multiple accounts (I do), that’s less than 30K active users.

On top of that, probably less than half of Lemmy users actually cry about YouTube.

Even if we are generous, and say the entirety of Lemmy, and each user is unique, 30K is nothing lol.

They just moved it. It’s still in place. Thanks for proving me right.

Didn’t realize correcting false information is boot licking.

Enjoy living in your own reality where you tell yourself whatever makes you feel better.

It was changed a long while ago because of race. Grow up. Stop being outraged and melodramatic over a fucking word change to be more inclusive.

Blacklist = blocked

Whitelist = allowed

Calling things slave/master

Not to mention allow list and block list just make sense.

Racists angry over 1 simple word change that better describes the function of said list.

Go back to your broken Linux and PeerTube lmao

Having a discussion about paying for things isn’t garbage. You’re just poor and salty.

Except they didn’t drop it.

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

No they didn’t. Please stop spreading this false rumour.

https://abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!

Love how Lemmy downvotes anyone who pays for anything. Such a great place for discussion! Definitely no echo chamber here.

Didn’t realize only old people could have organ transplants, cancer, autoimmune disease, or just simply weaker immune systems.

Good thing it’s only old people.

I found my girlfriend just before COVID popped off, but I would argue that dating apps are insufferable now due to how polarizing the world is.

Just having basic conversations with people online, including Lemmy, is so tiring. Like how I was called names for saying Windows just works, and then as I was being attacked for it, I was literally typing the comment from a Linux distro that currently wont allow Steam to download at higher than ~120Mbps, despite my internet being 1900Mbps. Then the guy continued to go off, calling me names, telling me that I am such a moron, all because I showed a live example of how Linux wasn’t “just working”?

The internet is so exhausting and toxic these days.

I didn’t know what to do. I was being threatened with a ban, even after explaining myself and my edits.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page didn’t matter to me that much. Who cares if people get misinformation about an OS update. I quite literally didn’t get paid enough to deal with that.

It just really changed my perspective on Wikipedia. Unless you look at the history and check out profiles of people who get in edit battles, you really don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.

At the end of the day the Wikipedia page I was trying to edit ended up being corrected by someone else (who completely disregarded all of my effort), but it took a month, and someone else to do it, before the page wasn’t full of misinformation anymore. RIP to anyone who visited that page within that month and never returned, because they were fed 80% misinformation.