I don’t know about you but I find these bot posts actually useful! And there’s healthy discussion too which is the point of lemmy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_theater

Youtube is past the growth phase, at this point it’s about minimising cost and maximising revenue.

If you regularly use it with adblock but decide to stop using it because of this, then youtube would have succeeded. You weren’t making them money and were costing them bandwidth, so good riddance.

If you really want to stick it to them, turn on adblock, find some long videos and play them on mute in the background at 4K/1080p60 resolution. Cost them even more bandwidth.

Even better, start randomly disliking videos or making nonsensical comments (not hateful or toxic ones, just comments that don’t make sense). Enshittify it further.

Have you or your parents never used a phone book to look up businesses and ended up calling A1 Plumbing, AAA locksmith, etc?

So basically, bosses can’t deal with the fact that they can’t step out of their room and yell at people, and therefore still want to inconvenience everyone.

I mean, trump was crazy to suggest injecting bleach, but maybe eating it on a side salad helps with covid?

(please don’t try this)

For a site filled with users who are more tech-savvy than the average person, I’m surprised there is such a big dichotomy in views here. Or maybe it’s just one or two really vocal individuals.

I think everyone is agreed that the site is a cesspool that deserves to die. The issue is that getting ISPs to voluntarily block sites based on advocacy is bad. As the provider of a “digital human right”, ISPs should NOT get to decide who gets their service and who doesn’t.

The EFF isn’t supporting hate groups. What they’re saying is that an ISP block is a dangerous precedent.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

you can’t use power delete anymore. sort your own posts by top (all time), and manually change the useful ones.

The only thing I did was use adblock to disable the red speech symbol for chat lol. Never even used it!

because reddit was a firehose of low-effort posts. A lot of times if you don’t reply quick enough your post gets buried under 100 other witty puns and nobody ever reads it.

the best way of protesting against chores!

Some people are worried that it may feel sexual.

I… did not know this was a concern? lol

It already is, /r/all used to be current and now it’s just a constant stream of spam posts.

and that’s the whole point of this!

the only rule that matters now is John Oliver only.

I suspect this would have to be done by the instance admins.

If the sole moderator hasn’t posted or commented, you can still post and comment, can’t you?

the odds are stacked against the mods and the users, but any little bit of resistance is useful.

huh, interesting.

so… they’re denying everyone water to stop some people from getting high? still doesn’t seem right to me tbh.

Er… drinking water helps with consuming drugs?

didn’t spez want democracy? He said he was going to allow people to vote out mods lol. You want democracy, you get it!

oh my god i love this. it would be a shame if all other subs followed suit…