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[โ€“] tonarinokanasan@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly I haven't heard much rhetoric around anyone banning these terms. But if moving away from them IS good, and the entire catalyst for this conversation is "YouTube chose to use newer, more preferable terms", then isn't that a good thing?

[โ€“] HelloHotel@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thats what I wanted to communicate, deprication is a fairly normal part of software. Computer interfaces in all their forms are just contracts of expectation, social contracts are simmlar. Deprication is marking an expectation as a mistake or somhow unhelpful.