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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 48 minutes ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

The Sims 4. As soon as that shit got officially showcased i was a hater. Felt gaslighted by the community for years, and now most people hate it too lmao.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Social media. Started strong in the mid 2000's, peaked in features and quality and social usefulness in the early 2010's and around 2014 they started removing features and enshittify because they got their core userbase and, once locked in, they could milk them.

Remeber when facebook was about "connecting with old friends" and you could search by city, age range and a whole lot of filters? Or when YouTube was "broadcast yourself" and could fully customize your channel page? Then they reduced it to a stupid banner that got smaller and smaller.

Bonus: everything that relies on infinite growth to keep cost down. I was skeptical of streaming services and guess what, they suck because they operated at loss for years, because "more future customers pay for the present ones"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 hours ago

Apparently, the large gaps in stall doors. 22ish years later, a number of places around my region are finally installing stalls and floor to ceiling walls without gaps. Making eye contact while taking a shit was always awkward AF.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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 β€œupgrades” 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

Many of these things and one aspect in common, they rely on either appearances or "trust me bro" level of empty promises. I was always told I was too skeptical and untrustful, but maybe it's people that trust too much what a salesman is selling you. I'm of the idea that the good things are the one you discover snd enjoy, not the ones that announce to the whole world how awesome they are.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

Entitled middle aged women (Karens). I started ranting about them in 2007, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago

Car ownership, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I already had a strong reaction when the term 'Influencer' popped up. At first it sounded like a marketing term that felt more like an insult to label someone as.

Then people started proudly proclaiming themselves Influencers and it's only gotten worse since...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 34 minutes ago

felt more like an insult

I certainly use the term as a pejorative, hence the quotes in my original comment.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

My reaction, the first time I saw him: I don't like you, jerk-off

[–] [email protected] 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
  • 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
[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Yep, like @[email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago

Skinny jeans are hated by most people? Where? Like all fashion, it always has haters, of course. But I wasn't aware of a peak wave of haters for skinny jeans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

One I hate that I am unsure of a term for but I call it "Family time" is when a show or movie makes everyajor twist revolve around the main characters family...

Star Wars is a great example that no one notices it in

Darth Vader is Lukes father Leia his sister

Both rolls could have worked without those twists

But it is far worse in other shows and series or even ruins them for me

Fringe was ruined by it imo

Slow horses is falling into this trap with season 4

It's a cheap ploy to try and make the moment or stakes more dramatic by involving the characters in ediate family as ploys or villains. At the same time it just feels out of place most of the time that the entire world these characters are in revolve around 1 family.

So many shows use this trope but I don't even see a proper term calling it out and at the same time it has ruined so many shows and just shows a lazy writing or plot narrative.

The author does not know how to write for the dramatic response they want the audience to have for the villain or ploy so they make some dramatic reveal that their family member was secretly involved making it more difficult for the main characters to make decisions or take action.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Trans women competing as men

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago

At least for trans people we all hate this. We want to compete as our actual gender

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Trans men competing as women.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

X/Twitter/BlueSky I like long conversations with lots of information and while I use them now, it’s only because that’s where people post.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Tesla/Musk.

Back in 2014 Tesla and Ecotricity had an agreement to upgrade Ecotricity's charging network to be compatible with Tesla's superchargers. Tesla whined that it wasn't being rolled out fast enough. Ecotricity wasn't a very big company and was basically working for free, so asked Tesla to actually support the roll out if they needed it faster. Musk went mental has been trying to destroy the company ever since. The 2014 Tesla patent release was never about collaboration or saving the planet, he just hoped somebody, somewhere would use it to undermine Ecotricity.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

I moved to the bay area in 2012, absolutely hated Musk back then and thought all of his success was hanging onto other's coattails and good timing (which fair enough, is a skill + huge privilege in and of itself, but isn't the same as inventing/engineering) but he was really popular here. He continued to reveal himself to be more and more of a shitheel over the years and I got to slowly see everybody I knew and worked with eventually come around to the same opinion I had held for more than a decade.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

I liked the OG Tesla Model S (I know there was a roadster before it). But the other models just didn't do it for me. The X, 3, and Y are all oddly proportioned. And the interiors on the 3 and Y are just not good. I know Tesla fans will excuse the lack of instrument cluster and other missing features that are standard on other vehicles, but no thanks.

And the Cybertruck is just straight-up bizarre.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Twitter. Just never saw the point.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hated Donald Trump long before he became president.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

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."?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

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

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