as a former tech support person I think the reason why its usually like that is that most of the people who call in are people don't know how to use a computer at least it was for the company I worked at
Yea I was annoyed that they were making me sign up for google+ for my youtube account so I never tried it I just set it up so I could keep using youtube.
does anybody else's dogs get as close to you as possible then pretend to sleep and peak at the food occasionally
try following hashtags
and then if you suggest they try mastodon they won't even consider it
I mean legaly you're right but free speech as a concept still applies to private companies they just dont have to follow it
Tbf voting with money also seems futile
I don't expect my data to be fully deleted in a centralized system either. even if it was deleted from the central server someone might have made an archive of it
and reddit is definitely guilty of this since they were bringing back peoples deleted comments and accounts
You remove the downvotes you juat get people more people in the comments with "you're an idiot" or whatever instead of just a downvote.
It's not like those kinds of comments are really that nuanced or helpfull either.
does a comment/post really need hundreds of comments saying similar things it also helps to hide spam content and trolls
Some of that is from management being strict about following the procedures we have to make sure every step is followed or we get in trouble so even if someone seems knowledgable we have to treat them like they aren't