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because advertisers will do anything to sell something. even if not official ads id bet we see fake accounts pushing something like reddit has seen over the years
I'll just host my own instance without ads.
That's not how this works. Eventually the way we search instances gets weighed heavily to the content with ads. Look at podcasts or youtube. You just can't find that OG material and it's not just because the Joe Rogan are just that much better at podcasting. It's because the ads are expensive and the system is made to sell attention.
You cannot give an inch. You either have to stand firm and never tolerate any encroachment of advertising or you have to bend over and grab the ankles and brace for the massive ad injection into all our spaces. There can never be any middle ground. Like a weed you have to be proactive and the minute you let your guard down it'll take over wearing the face of your favorite ishowspeed clone.
mechanically speaking though, you can just fork it
or leave lemmy.world (say) for another instance
world is straight up the worst instance, truly impressive how bad it is
It's sliding further and further to the right, calling out transphobia gets your comments removed now if it's against power users being transphobic or defending transphobia.
i just purged a bunch from /c/transgender. felt good. tell them to bring more. i want to splat them
Sorry, but you'll need a stronger warrior than me for that. After today, I refuse to deal with anything .world related, it's a right-wing cesspool.
Great job kicking chud ass though! splat
If you're seeing that, report it please. It's quite against the rules...
https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/#12-discrimination-against-minority--at-risk-groups
We literally changed our logo to a pride flag for June and featured queer friendly OTHER sites.
the second part is cool but damn did "we literally chabged our logo to a pride flag for June" make me laugh hard
I did, actually, and my own comment was removed instead, so I blocked the transphobe and moved on. I'm sorry, but it's clear that Lemmy.world isn't the space for me so I am not going to interact with it.
Maybe I'm not understanding. But my thing is stuff like this
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1eirx34/i_wanted_to_use_the_wheel_of_lunch_to_decide_what/
Internet is sliding away from what it was originally in the worst way. it's to the point you cannot create anything without forcing ads into it. At what point does just forking the instance not work. Who says github doesn't just start charging people like an Azure subscription and then offer up as packages as a way to reduce cost