Pregnenolone @ Pregnenolone @lemmy.world

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I have ad blocker. I don’t comment. I don’t post. I only downvote. I only view my home feed. I only do all this on PC, and URL-blocked Reddit off my phone, significantly reducing the time I have to search.

But sometimes I just need to have the content there. I think I’ve done about the best I can considering.

Surely by now this is one of Nintendo’s most well known facts?

A good IT is blocking ads at a company-level. Browser extensions wouldn’t matter, and in fact, shouldn’t be allowed for the same reason.

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I’m reasonably certain they’re missing some internal revenue targets because advertisers are expressing concern on where their ads are showing up.

Reddit thinks they need to censor the “front page”; as this is where the vast majority of users are. If you saw the their commentary around their earnings, they said they were struggling to convert unsubscribed users to subscribed users, meaning most of their monthly active users aren’t curating their feeds.

So as a result they’re policing people’s ability to get “inappropriate things” (see: wrongthink) to the front page.

Unfortunately what this is likely to mean is that users who have commitment to Reddit leave, while low-commitment users stay.

Given that the majority of comment is low-effort memes anyway, I’d say Reddit don’t mind if the “smarter” users leave.

The oligarchs would “take care” of trump before it got that bad for them

In Australia (and UK) we don’t typically use the term counter-clockwise. We use anti-clockwise

I don’t want to be respected for being into ass.

Like most of these “anti-theft” pieces of shit, it only negatively impacts and inconveniences those who don’t steal (or don’t intend to steal). Everyone else is just going to find a way to steal.

If the Libs listened to a study it’d be the first time in their history

There are no national elections, but there are local elections in China

It’s only marginally better than the other deadshit image they were using.

I don’t want people here who don’t want to be here.

Their brains should boycott their lungs

Not Halo.

HALO 2!

Released 2004

What does “nobody” mean here OP? Why is it funny?

We’re in the world of wrongthink now

It’s easy to say “don’t get tied down”, but people do. People like their online personas, their handles, their comment and post history. It’s a mixture of sunk-cost fallacy and FOMO. Reddit knows this, it’s why they still have 2000x as many monthly users as Lemmy.

This will be the same here: if a billionaire buys the biggest instance, yeah cool everyone can defederate, but then all the historical content is gone, most of the users are gone unless they move to you or an instance still federated to you, and you essentially alienate yourself.

If my tax dollars got spent on a sick light show every night rather than the bullshit the government is doing right now I wouldn’t be entirely unhappy with it.

It can be bought by a billionaire. I think we need to be careful thinking this risk doesn’t exist.

“We can just make another instance” - this won’t happen like people think it will. If all the content is on Lemmy.world and it gets bought, then people are going to be hesitant to move somewhere else, just like people are hesitant to leave Reddit now.