In my case I’ve hated Harry Potter, skinny jeans and Tesla long before that became popular to do.

  • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
    50·
    5 个月前

    I spent years trying to convince my friends and family that Elon musk sucks, and then he just went off the deepend. Im glad it’s widely known how much he sucks now, but damn i wish it didnt take so long.

    Now if only people knew who Peter Thiel was

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    49·
    5 个月前

    Twitter. I always thought a text-based blog-like thing with a short character limit was a terrible idea.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        30·
        5 个月前

        It encourages hot takes over nuance, or awkward workarounds like replying to your own post a bunch of times if you actually have something to say.

        I still think it’s a terrible idea for something like that to be popular and have an important role in society, though its addition of images and video mitigate the problems a bit. I don’t know whether it significantly impacted the platform’s success and eventual sale price. $44B is a lot of money, so I can’t say it was a terrible decision from the perspective of its creators.

      • aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee
        12·
        4 个月前

        Promotes lazy thinking that can be expressed in 240 characters and makes expressing more complex thoughts structurally more difficult

    • Yermaw@lemm.ee
      4·
      5 个月前

      I always liked the idea of twitter but then humans human’d all over it. If everyone agreed to only use it for sensible things I’d love it so much. Useful announcements and updates and so on.

      If I follow a singer for instance, I want to hear about concert announcements, album release dates and the like. I don’t want my feed filled with their opinions on global economics or hot dog condiments.

      • Zak@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 个月前

        It sounds like you want an RSS feed of the singer’s events page on their own website.

        In 2025, they might not have one because social media has replaced that (poorly), but in 2010 they probably would.

  • yaroto98@lemmy.orgEnglish
    25·
    5 个月前

    Google. Been trying to de-google for over a decade. Many of my random asks for alternatives have been answered with “just use google, it’s free”.

    Biggest problem is phones because I hate Apple more than Google. Every 6 months or so I look into linux phones, but walk away unimpressed.

    • Micromot@feddit.orgEnglish
      10·
      5 个月前

      I think the best you can do for phones is get one with good hardware and put a degoogled ROM on it

      • yaroto98@lemmy.orgEnglish
        2·
        5 个月前

        Yea, I’ve checked LineageOS and a few others out, but my phone isn’t supported.

        That’s what I get for also hating selfie camera notches/cutouts. Most of the phones I get aren’t popular models. If you know of one for the Nubia Z60 Ultra, point it out.

        • BCsven@lemmy.caBanned
          3·
          5 个月前

          GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone. Immich self host as a replacent for facial recognition and albums on google photos

            • BCsven@lemmy.caBanned
              3·
              5 个月前

              No, its a decent phone and GrapheneOS has degoogled everything and sandboxed play store if you use it. Storage spaces are sandboxed, camera and mic off switches. Lots of other security and privacy options, and 5 years of support

              • yaroto98@lemmy.orgEnglish
                1·
                5 个月前

                Still, it would be giving money to google, which I don’t want to do. Also it has a camera cutout which is annoying, ALSO in my original post I claimed whenever I talk about degoogling, someone ALWAYS suggests a google product.

                No, I will NOT buy a pixel phone.

                • BCsven@lemmy.caBanned
                  1·
                  5 个月前

                  Its actually a loss for Google, they are selling a good set of secure hardware for a cheap price in hopes of gleaning your data. But yeah the notch is stupid, especially when icons fall under it.

          • yaroto98@lemmy.orgEnglish
            1·
            5 个月前

            Thank you for this! Most of those bugs wouldn’t bother me except for the no bluetooth audio. I’m going to keep tabs on this now that I know it’s almost ready.

            I actually just yesterday pulled the trigger on deleting all my contacts and calendar info out of google and now they’re backed up to my webdav server.

    • oni ᓚᘏᗢ@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 个月前

      I didn’t had idea of who Donald Trump was till he was president. Can I say “If I knew who Donald Trump was I’m pretty sure I’d hated him.”?

    • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
      2·
      5 个月前

      I know it sounds trite but his hostility towards Rosie O’donell back in '06-'07 cemented my disdain for him.

  • Moonweedbaddegrasse@lemm.ee
    20·
    5 个月前

    I’ve hated Harry Potter since the first book came out - someone lent it to me and I gave up after 100 pages cos it was shite and really badly written.

  • TootSweet@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    5 个月前

    Like someone else in this thread mentioned, Elon. I hated him well before he started doing really assholeish stuff publicly. I had plenty of liberal friends who thought he was cool and edgy and bought not-a-flamethrowers and Tesla cars. When the soccer team got trapped in a cave in Thailand and Elon called the rescue team pedophiles, I was like “I knew that guy had to be a total asshole”. Of course, now I know that was not even the tip of the iceberg.

    I think I was ahead of the curve hating on “generative AI”.

    Bill Gates. I hated him for being a big part of the rise of proprietary software as an institution long before the right wing conspiracy theorists started making up bullshit about him. Which is annoying because now I have to tell people I hate Gates but not because I think he’s putting 5G microchips in vaccines or whatever bullshit.

    Facebook is probably a pretty good example. I quit Facebook in like 2008. Not that nobody was talking about how evil Facebook was at the time, but their evil wasn’t really as well known at the time, I don’t think.

    I’m realizing a lot of these are technology-related.

  • simulacra_procession@lemmy.todayEnglish
    17·
    5 个月前

    Russell brand, back when he was just a homeopathic, somewhat progressive pseudo-intellectual moron. I remember specifically avoiding Get Him to the Greek bc I thought he was a creep, didn’t think he’d actually be charged with SA though. His pivot to manosphere right wing bullshit doesn’t get enough attention, bc of worse people like Rogan.

    • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 个月前

      Same, I disliked him even before the Andrew Sachs business. His stand up was gross. He hid his behaviour behind the veneer of progressiveness.

  • assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works
    13·
    5 个月前

    Joe Rogan. I described him many years ago as “the reality TV equivalent for podcast dudebros” and my (largely well educated, liberal) friend group jumped down my throat for it. Apparently I was being judgemental and shouldn’t judge people for their entertainment choices.

    Called my shot.

  • EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com
    13·
    5 个月前

    Facebook, Twitter, “influencers”, most social media in general.

    Lemmy (and Reddit) are social media, but my brain keys them more as forums rather than lumping them in with other social media.

  • comfy@lemmy.ml
    9·
    5 个月前
    • reddit (I joined Lemmy years before most people reading this, and was already only lurking a couple of selected subreddits through an alternative frontend for years before that)
    • Bill Gates (FOSS have hated that prick since 1976, but even I was hating their reputation laundering long before right-wing conspiracy nuts decided Gates was a communist vaccine microchip liberal or whatever)
    • Musk, I guess. I was years ahead of the mainstream, but again, not ahead of socialist communities and environmentalists.
    • and twitter, and BlueSky
    • 74 183.84@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 个月前

      Im not very familiar with bluesky and whats going on there (I know the basis of what it is but thats all). Why the hate with bluesky?

      • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
        5·
        5 个月前

        On the hate of Bluesky here from what I understand: it’s just another twitter masquerading being open with almost impossible to run federation backenf if you’re not some big rich organization that will enshittify and it’s not mastodon

      • comfy@lemmy.ml
        2·
        5 个月前

        Yep, like @JayGray91@piefed.social said. BlueSky is beholden to the same problems that ruined Twitter. It exists as a business, not a community, and at some point it will try to cash in. It’s repeating history

        The word ‘enshittification’ is thrown around a lot, but its original meaning is talking about a process that affects venture capital funded tech, and BlueSky is pressured to follow that process, unlike Mastodon, Pleroma and other alternatives.

  • arsCynic@beehaw.org
    9·
    5 个月前

    The stock market. Only when society collapses due to climate change and whatnot the Western hoi polloi will realize it had become a cancerous pyramid scheme that eventually runs out of tissue to metastasize in.

    - -
    ✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.

  • Zenith@lemm.ee
    9·
    5 个月前

    Plastic, the patriot act, the Iraq war, AI, the internet, social media, I managed to avoid all platforms except Facebook which my spouse talked me into after months of trying to get me to join and finally deleted it recently, I kind of just hate tech in general, the never ending cycle of “upgrades” that actually make your life significantly shittier, competition, gender roles, giant SUVs, porn, extremely exotic pets, Tesla (test drove a high end model when it first came out and said it was like eating cafeteria food off a really nice tray and didn’t buy it) I’m sure plenty more… as an elder millennial the rise of the 21st century has just been so incredibly disappointing and shallow.