I don’t think many people here are genuinely interested in Apple hardware and technology; a lot of them are active in predominantly Android or Windows communities and their responses essentially boil down to “Apple bad, incremental upgrades bad, consooming bad, enshittification bad, anti repair bad” without actually understanding the topics at hand, and spew out some pretty egregious and erroneous shit as a result.
The people who do very trivial research of these topics then become easy targets as now they seem like they’re “Apple bootlickers.” Case in point: your recent comment about calibration/Asahi Linux. Or a trivial debunking of the statement that “there is enough bandwidth in 2.4GHz [Bluetooth]” attracting the negative attention of tech geeks who think they know everything. Or the complaint that “Apple is locking USB3.0 to the more expensive iPhone 15 Pro”, despite that being the result of a process they’ve been doing for years now (current gen base models have the previous gen Pro chip).
It’s sad to see for Lemmy, who I’d expect would be composed of knowledgable tech enthusiasts, but what can we really do about it when nonsense is so easy to churn out?
That’s a fair stance to take — however, it’s worth noting that Tate already has participated in MLM/pyramid schemes before.
Most notably, Hustler’s University itself was designed from the ground up as a pyramid scheme through an affiliate marketing system. People paid in at $49/mo expecting lessons on how to make money (which were all publicly available on the Internet), but at the end they received instructions on how to promote HU. The profits they made (through copywriting, I believe it was) would then get funneled to the person who referred them via the affiliate link, and this gets chained up higher and higher, ending at Tate himself.
When I looked into the whole thing, there were so many 14 year old Fortnite squeakers on Youtube who also desperately pushed for people to sign up to HU using their own affiliate link. If you called this out they get hyper defensive and accuse you of spreading FUD. This alone says everything: HU was a textbook MLM scheme through and through, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this Real World Portal thing is just the same rebranded crap.