Which only works for now. They’ve already gotten you to be ok with the upcharge price for the “smart” hardware. Soon they’re going to require online activation for “reasons”. So choosing to not connect it won’t work. And they’ll do regular ad connection checks and if it fails to update ads after so much time the TV will prompt an error to please correct the network.

Hate it all you want, it’s going to happen.

Oh good, Lemmy had no privacy. Not like that ability isn’t going to be abused.

Either make it public right from the start everyone sees everything. Or make this crap not possible.

You’re going to get echo chambers that start witch hunts. Someone is going to dox someone because they don’t like how someone votes… Yadda yadda someone gets swatted or someone just shows up… Then someone’s going to start cheering “We did it Lemmy!”…

Honestly at least with Reddit you had one single evil entity that would abuse their power and trust of users.

So 4chan but with extra steps…

Has Lemmy already jumped the shark.

I would say almost all of them fall under the ‘legally distinct but totally is’ category.

It’s not going to be long until we have always online DRM TVs. Where the TV will prompt you to reconnect to the internet before continues to function.