Not gonna lie, I agree with this. Pennies are useless.

  • Flying Squid
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    01 month ago

    Do people italicize the word Google when they “google” something? I sure as hell don’t and I have never seen anyone who does.

    • @evergreen@lemmy.world
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      Lol now we’re going to debate and call people out over their post syntax and use of italics? Is this what belongs on Lemmy? I guess it’s funny content in a way…

      To begrudgingly answer your question, no I do not usually notice people italicizing titles in casual news aggregator comments. I do however notice it done in professional journalism. Neither of the cases trigger me either way.

      • Flying Squid
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        -31 month ago

        Professional journalism? You mean the thing that’s usually paid for with advertising?

        • @evergreen@lemmy.world
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          41 month ago

          Ok man. I get it. Anything that costs money is bad. Let’s never speak the name of any for profit company or business as it may give them free advertising. Thank you for keeping us all safe.

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            Why do you think this is about safety and not just wanting there to be one space on the internet where people aren’t shilling for corporations?

            • @evergreen@lemmy.world
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              31 month ago

              It was a joke, mate.

              I briefly looked through user tal’s comment history, and found that they also italicized Google as a source of info in another comment. Does this mean they’re also shilling for Google? Imagine how pissed Kagi would be if they found out…

              • Flying Squid
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                -21 month ago

                Maybe people shouldn’t promote either corporation this way? Or is that beyond the real of possibility and we should just accept that corporations will use people like this with quiet dignity?

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                  Back to my original comment, I just don’t see how it was intended as a promotion. It was supportive to the comment to add context to the information contained thereof. It was literally one word in a long comment. No hyperlink. On top of that, most people don’t even know what Kagi is and there was no discernable effort to introduce or promote it.

                  What about that makes you so sure that they’re being used by a corporation? Should they have just listed the source as “internet search engine”?

                  If they “shill” for a not for profit search engine will you call that out as well?

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                    What about that makes you so sure that they’re being used by a corporation?

                    Because… they are? Free advertising is free advertising even if that isn’t the intent. Just like everyone who ‘googles’ something is being used by Google as free advertising.

                    If they “shill” for a not for profit search engine will you call that out as well?

                    Of course not. Did you entirely miss my point about this being about capitalism or are you ignoring it in order to argue?