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[–] atcorebcor@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

You tell me:

-are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?

-is the public on lemmy tolerant of sexoffenders? Nazis?

-ads? (Yes, I initially misspelled it as “adds” this guy right here)

-do you have superfluous bs following you around?

I think not.

[–] wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

You forgot:

  • Is an algorithm shoving political divisive rage bait down your throat?

But thanks for listing why I like it here

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

I think if no public bathrooms are available, then we should be allowed to urinate in public.

[–] denaggels@feddit.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Regarding adds: I guess if you fight one lemmy user, others will spawn and come to help. So I would say yes, there are adds

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So people having discourse equals advertising?

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Nah, they're making a joke from the misspelling.

add: To perform addition. Or a mob joining an ongoing fight in a game.

ad: An advertisement.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago

Well looks like I’ll be having an omelette tomorrow morning on account of the egg on my face. 🤣

[–] denaggels@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you, should have made that clear.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

-are you getting ads/shorts/brainrot shoved in face every single second?

No, but I don't get that elsewhere either. You may need to update your adblocker. Or install more than one (one for web stuff and sponsorblock to get YTers doing their own ad reads).

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think we define the list differently.

There is a difference between let’s say ads and shorts (which are indeed blockable to a certain level). But then there’s the brainrot. Which to me envelopes a bigger problem.

On fb for example to me this was promotion of influencers, meme pages, … patronising stuff that annoys me endlessly.

I don’t think you can steer Facebook in a way that they don’t display certain content you don’t want. In fact I’ve has the opposite happen a few times.

“Oh you’re trying to tell the algo you want less of this content? How about some more, twice as much?”.

At that point I’m done with the platform, no thx. And just in general, I’m throwing away as much big tech accounts as I can and it feels like a relief, good riddance.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Lemmy/Piefed is an echo chamber, and has some structural issues like Reddit. But there's no algo, no advertising, nor constant phone notifications.

And, uh, no billionaires warping "open" discourse.

To me, it's a time black hole, worse than old forums. But it's not nearly as bad as (say) Discord or anything Facebook owned.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

nor constant phone notifications.

Until emails broke on our instance I used to get email notifications for replies, which would send a notification to my phone, which would get forwarded to my smart watch.
So, uh, yeah.

[–] ken@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It can. Depends on how you use it. Wear gloves and goggles when handling .ml and political memes on .world and such.