As someone said, you can block instances but it can be useful to look up an instance on fediseer. It shows endorsements and censures for the instance along with other information:

https://gui.fediseer.com/instances/detail/lemmy.world

It might be worth adding that there is some backlash on BlueSky for their shared blocklists recently because they can accidentally catch reasonable people or be militarised to deliberately grab extra people. Or at least that’s my take. Personally I now consider a lot of social media along the lines of “if I might not feel comfortable with you around the wife and kids, then a block is reasonable like not inviting you to the next dinner party” and that having a block that you can click through removes a lot of these issues (collapsed post /comment with no title unless you click type thing)

come to power

I think you’re talking about recent history and there was a lot before he got to that point where he probably wasn’t as useful to billionaires

So there is less advertising in Australia and the UK than the US because they say the word cunt more?

I don’t understand the mechanism. I could see a benefit for an advertiser if there was self censorship for criticising that advertiser, but what is the connection between that and self censorship for the word nazi? Or is it another mechanism?

How does self censorship help advertisers?

Yes and no

“Low priority” and “first” are actually pretty different statements. “First” requires pretty authoritarian control over how people spend their time. But the statements are thrown together pretty often and people intuitively accept them. Realistically the world is a bunch of people doing their own thing, and in that world a small fraction of time and resources is spent on space. Some of this ends up being useful technology is developed for the rest of the world too. Personally I’m hopeful for stations and bases doing some of the expensive research for closed loop products and recycling but that’s still a hope and far from a certainty

Dictators can affect funding and deals pretty well, they have a lot less influence on the products. From what I’ve seen most “tech” topics are mostly shiny new products and the periphery to that

I wasn’t replying to a comment about if this is solved or not, or the complexities of getting an outcome that most people are happy with. I replied to a comment that simplified the issue all the way to “it’s the parent’s choice”.

Your comment is opening up new issues, that I agree make enforcement while respecting privacy more difficult (but that I personally don’t think are insurmountable)

Yes… liquor, guns, driving, and physical punishment should solely be parents choice. Wait… those caused issues and the government decided to mitigate some of the negative consequences?

Was this written with genAI? Even the TLDR is padded fluff of common talking points

What about a non-commercial alternative to strava? It’s core feature is literally push a button, gps tracking, push a button and stop, then some tagging

Never said ads are good nor that adblockers shouldn’t be used

Most of your arguments hold for stealing from a baby “they should protect it better, I don’t owe them shit”

This one “why shit allover someone saying a website has more ads than usual” comment I made seems to have found a lot of selfish assholes that can’t not force their views on other people and tell them how they should live their lives

Just a reminder that this thread, and my comments, are in the context of someone saying the OP had linked a particularly bad website for ads, and this person being attacked

If your position is what you’ve actually written here then I don’t think there is a real disagreement but I am surprised by the effort. There’s only a disagreement if you think it’s reasonable to call out someone for making a comment about the ads on a website being excessive and telling that person they don’t get that privilege because they don’t use the internet your way. Everything that follows is just a retaliatory mirror on the issues with “your way” (yeah it’s another poster not you)

This is the best answer so far

For me personally the question was only “who can I only contact through Instagram that I want to keep contact with”? I think the app is really replaceable besides that. I basically used my chat history as a checklist and deleted chats until the dates were far enough back then pulled the bandaid

An asshole move is consuming other people’s work without giving them something in return and then bitching at anyone that accurately points out you’re a leech

But yes, the current ads based system is mighty broken. I did touch on that, so did the comment before me, and I’m surprised an expansion felt needed

That’s happened a few times before hasn’t it?

Yeah, it’s pretty no win being in a place that tips. You’re just punishing the server if you do anything but a good tip and a good tip is just embedding tipping more

I usually just do blind maths for the tip but with an accent I always liked asking the server what I should tip and doing it well before I had to pay so I could get a feel for what sort of person it was or if I was missing something and sometimes it was surprising. I ordered six beer cans takeaway on a road trip once and (believing that take away was not usually tipped) asked. Their answer was something like “I’m earning $3 an hour, it’s your call”. Its pretty messed up anyone thinks that’s okay let alone enough people that the system persists

Yeah, I just wanted a cheap dig at tipping. I don’t enjoy watching people dancing for me in the hope they get a liveable wage out of it. I’m glad to no longer be living in a place where it is the norm

Thinking tipping is a good thing might be a (minor) red flag for me actually since there isn’t much too it besides giving the customer an amount of control over another human (and moving who is responsible for wages away from the business)