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Cake day: October 24th, 2023
  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What are your favorite early youtube videos?
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    4 days ago

    So much of my gray matter is reserved for gems from these videos such as:

    “You’ll have SO many babies. Four HUNDRED BABIES!”

    “What if everything you ever wanted…CAME. IN. A. ROCKET CAN‽”

    "YOU’LL FEEL LIKE A JET FIGHTER MADE OF BICEPS! (ZZooOoOOooom!)

    “You’ve had the worst, now try the THIRST…QUENCHER!”

    “Wuht abut muh blue collar?” “JUICE SPRINGSTEEN.”

    “Manana, Fizzbitch, and GUN!”

    …okay the entire freaking videos are just, in my brain forever. Lol

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Has there been any successful Brands / Business' that have moved or grow on the Fediverse?
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    13 days ago

    Oo I haven’t gotten to use this one for a while. How do people feel about (covert or otherwise) advertisers in their spaces to interact with other humans?

    Since a picture is worth a thousand words.

    That meme was pretty popular on Twitter. Many people would harass profit seeking companies with it, block all advertising accounts, etc. Because they were there to communicate with each other. (And sometimes to publicly shame bad companies.)

    …But they lost that battle because the platform itself was designed to enable and push ads. The users were always the product.

    The Fediverse works differently. It is yours, mine, OURS.

    If me and my friends made a game and we’re excited about it? We can share it to a gamedev group primarily to talk about it, even if it has a steam page and people ask, sure. If it offers something for the community to discuss and engage (positively) over, it’s a good thing.

    If the point of the post was to “How do ya do, fellow kids?” In order to shill, it’s gonna get sniffed out real fast. Lots of for-profit cloud services try this nonsense and get busted.

    The world is in a scary place right now, and everyone’s looking for their next get rich quick easy money gold rush. The Fediverse is specifically trying to block that sleeze so people can be free to genuinely communicate without some polo-clad intern marching up to our coffee table and trying to tell us all the wonderful benefits of Starbucks.

    The Fediverse is not an “untapped market.” It’s designed to be a “tap resistant un-market.”

    At its best, it’s a town square where we behave like humans and discuss ideas, rather than a bazarr where you can’t hear your friends because everyone’s hawking goods in your face and screaming about their “GrEaT dEaLs!!!111one”.

    If you’re a business that actually seeks to be a genuine part of the community and benefit it in more ways than just sales, there might be a place for you. Being a co-op with ethical labor practices will take you far.

    But nobody’s going to swallow that “EdUcAtE aBoUt HoW yOuR pRoDuCt ImPrOvEs LiVeS!” swill here.

    Hope this helps!

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todaytoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is your least favourite thing about the fediverse or lemmy?
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    15 days ago

    THANK. YOU. You put it more succinctly where I struggle to.

    Right now most even-keeled folks can agree we’re all very upset, but it’s the same with trying to start a union and march up to the boss’s office: Oh sure, everybody enjoys a good grumble in the breakroom but are they gonna back you up? Worse, are they gonna rat you out?

    Whether out of ignorance, desperation, hopelessness, or all three, we have a large proportion of people that just wanna “keep their head down.” and “stay out of trouble.” Even if it means suffering.

    Our culture is also pathetically fractured sometimes. Once we get over the “should we do something” hurdle, the question becomes what, who, and how. And everybody’s seemingly got a morally-superior position to everyone else, and budging is not an option for them. Unfortunately while we’re all scoring zings on each other, organizing and running roughshod over everyone else comes much more easily for those with an authoritarian bent.