InfiniteGlitch

“Don’t overthink it” & “worrying won’t solve the problem when you have to wait anyway”.

I always give that advice. However, I, personally, always overthink and keep worrying.

Thanks. I never expected this to happen, I thought people would understand what that would mean. I wish Americans good luck in the upcoming years.

Wait, what am I missing? I thought the elections were not entirely decided yet. Could someone fill me in?

Was immensely busy and focused to finish my university meanwhile trying to get bit of peace through reading books and gaming.

Also nowadays mainly use rss-feed for everything (Blogs, News, Reddit and Lemmy).

• World leaders finding it okay that thousands of people are dying being murdered (as if it is a video game for them).
• Everything gets more and more expensive.
• My country just gave 4B to another country but there are so many issues. They want to give students “long study fines” & People can’t pay well for their groceries.
• The overall hate, racism and fascism.

Could make a whole longer list.

Doing this actually got me back into reading. Started with Manhwa (Solo Leveling) and that spiraled into reading books such as Midnight library, Before Coffee Gets Cold, The Words We keep and now “1984”.

It’s funny to me that people have such a problem with YouTube Premium.

Just means you don’t see or agree with their point of view.

YouTube Premium is about as close as it gets to the platonic ideal of a video subscription service. It completely banishes any ads you’d get without paying

I don’t understand what you mean here (could be because English isn’t my native language). For YouTube premium, you still need to pay. So how does it banishes ads without paying?

Anyway, you still get in-video sponsors which doesn’t get automatically skipped by YouTube’s “premium”. A lot of people (included myself) find premium expensive for what it is. I, personally, don’t need the whole package for €15-20/monthly. It could’ve been like €5/monthly to remove ads.

Sure one could use advantage of currencies but ain’t worth it when there’s uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock for Firefox, SmartTube for TV, uYou+ for iOS and ReVanced for Android.

If showing ads is unacceptable, and paying to not see ads is unacceptable, then what’s the alternative?

It is not that’s “unacceptable”, it is the price and ‘value’ you get out of it.

People have to make a living, and servers don’t run on magic.

Google/ YouTube (whatever) as a company are immensely rich. Toning down the price or change their tactics won’t hurt them so much. But of course they won’t, I would not either because eventually there are people who will gladly pay the €15/monthly. So why change?

To many but the one that haunts me is “chaser”. A Korean movie about a serial killer who haunts prostitutes.

Why I remind it? Well, I watched it with my brother and when I got back from the toilet, he pretended to be some rando in a hoodie with a knife. Keep in mind, I was 14 and it was 11:30PM.

“I’m sure it exists, I just blocked it because I personally don’t like it” - everyone on lemmy

Lets agree to disagree? Because you cannot generalize the entirety of Lemmy about this topic. Lemmy certainly has NSFW content which means it is not everyone that blocks it. Not only that, there’s a phrase that goes like; ‘‘be the change’’ or something like that. If you want NSFW content to flourish, then start a community like that and post it. Perhaps people might join the community and post too.

Communities outside of tech and politics are very very small and slow. Especially anything NSFW. There’s a lot of prudish and ace people in the current crop of lemmy users.

I genuinely don’t understand it. If you want sexual content and it’s not on Lemmy, there are other specific sites for that, right? Like I mentioned before, Lemmy itself is already a tech-based platform which means tech-savvy people will be more on Lemmy and that means lots of tech-talk. Politics will be big on every platform because that’s just a important topic in life. Life basically evolved around politics.

Not wanting to see sexual content does not directly mean someone is prudish, it just literally means they don’t want to see that kind of content now. Therefore people block it. It’s not that deep (no pun intended).

For example for me, when I’m on Lemmy I want to see; Tech, Piracy, some politics, bit of anime debate (non-sexual) and some jokes. Nothing else. If I want anything else, there are other places to visit.

You can call them out when you see it. This helps the community, but makes your personal experience worse because you’re always fighting.

You see doing this will make your own experience worse. They want you to engage. Just block. The community will know by the particular person behavior how rude the person is.

Maybe like there is risk involved allowing NSFW content?

I think the risk of getting certain unwanted content posted on it. Though, I’m not sure how it all works with the content that’s posted and the owner of the instance. Though there are certainly NSFW communities (I, personally, just blocked them because that’s not my jam).

For me personally, yes. But it makes the overall site worse. Like a tragedy of the commons almost.

I don’t think there’s anything to do against that but correct me if I’m wrong. There are rules already to try counter that problem but there’s only so much a community can do against it. Every platform has this particular issue (some worse than the other). The best thing to ‘fight’ against it for yourself is blocking the particular people and communties.

Do you want to see more normies on Lemmy?

I honestly just don’t care what kind of people are on Lemmy as long as they’re friendly. Those who are not friendly are just immediately blocked by me, so I don’t see their comments (behavior).

To comment on your comment;

If someone asks a question about an issue with Windows, I don’t need to see nothing but Linux evangelism

I’m a Windows 11 user and never had this problem. Sure there might be comments saying they prefer Linux overall but that does not make the comment section less-friendly. Overall when it comes to tech questions, I have had great help (Windows, RSS-feeds, Piracy and even just Prime subtitle issues).

There’s a disproportionate number of truly toxic people on here who love preaching about their particular fixation, usually political, usually far leftist (compared to the world at large).

So toxicity is on every platform, Lemmy too. Block those who are toxic and your problem slowly but steadily solves by itself. I once read somewhere to most Tech-savvy people tend to be more Left-leaning, which is fine. If you don’t agree with their viewpoints, thats fine too. Just ignore it. The problem is the more right-leaning a community becomes, the much more toxic it becomes. It becomes less about tech, debates and much more about hating ‘the other’.

I, personally, are more centre-leaning and had checked more right-leaning communties and oh boy - It was pretty much 90% hates, dislikes and not so friendly things about ‘‘the other side’’, ‘‘the other people’’ and such than actual useful debates and comments.

All of those viewpoints are fine, but in moderation and without vitriol.

When I just joined, I read that Lemmy is mostly for tech-people. So it’s obvious that more Linux, piracy and overall tech users are here. It does align with how people have to join Lemmy and setup their subscribes for communties and all.

I often enjoy arguing politics. But not everything has to be a crusade.

So that’s the major issue with Politics. People are just hot-headed and very steadfast in their political opinion. It’s obvious there will be lot of arguing and crusade. It happens on every platform (Lemmy, Reddit, X, Insta and you name it).

• Not sure whether ‘‘steadfast’’ was the right word, English isn’t my native langauge and kind of tried to translate the native word into English.

And for the love of Christ, I want more NSFW topics. Dating, sex, porn.

I rather not. I blocked NSFW content, there are dating apps and such. Sex and porn are categorized within the NSFW content.

I googled and checked seltzers, but unfortunately, I can’t try them because they contain alcohol (unless I found the wrong ones?)

• Quit nicotine several years ago and never went back (shisha, cigarettes and cigars).
• Quit porn because it had become a bad coping mechanism (still struggling with it a bit tho).
• Slowly trying to quit my bad eating habit (I see them as addictions). I don’t gain weigh, so bad eating habits happens.
• Slowly trying to quit my soda addiction.

Whenever someone gives some good evidence, it gets removed almost immediately. Someone named “Linkerbaan” had two posts about this with actual evidence and it got twice removed.

I tried to search for the one where, I myself commented on and guess? It got removed.

Checking this dude’s post and comment history (of the OP), it’s clear as a sunny day that he’s a troll. I just wish blocking would mean, actual block.

On Lemmy it just means “not displaying their posts and comments” but they can still see everything you post and comment.

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I have been trying to get into Medium for a while now. It seems okay but lacks a lot quality content and their website somehow do not give me recent blogs. The site always gives me blogs from 2017-2020, never from 2024.

The site is immensely paywalled, almost all articles are paid. Now if the articles/ content was actually decent, I might’ve paid. However, sadly it is not and there’s a way to read the premium articles for free. So there’s that.

Been trying to find other places to read blogs but can’t seem to find a good place.

Call me pessimistic, but I do think:

• Privacy is an illusion.
• Control is an illusion (a reference to Mr. Robot).

Certainly, we can do a lot to have more privacy, but it is an illusion to think that we have complete control over it. Especially with social media, jobs, and today’s technology.