Yes why do you think they make you pay with your card or Walmart app if they can help it? So they can track your purchases

And so at small stores ran by local owners who can’t afford surveillance equipment and aren’t obsessed with profit

I disagree that Reddit has good content but even bad content is better than no content for communities that haven’t been built here yet

Is it full of spam because it’s unmoderated or is it just empty. If it’s just empty but has a good amount of subs just start posting. A lot of times the community can police itself and if you need a moderator if it becomes more active then reach out the the instance admins that the community is hosted on.

At least the mask is off. Apple, Google, Meta. None of them care about anything but profit and there isn’t a value they aren’t willing to compromise on if it makes the line go up.

If it weren’t for social media, humanity would find another technology to lie and manipulate people for money and power.

Money and Power are what corrupts, not technology

I pay for a YouTube premium family plan. It’s probably a rip off but my kids enjoy content on YouTube more than any other platform but YouTube is not safe for children with ads enabled (and YouTube kids is a joke)

Soggy cereal made a video about how YouTube ads are unsafe a few weeks ago and that was exactly my experience before I started paying for yt premium, look that up if you are curious

I appreciate you taking time out to write that. I enjoyed reading it, I think what the parent comment was trying to offer as criticism is that it ended sort of abruptly. I was hoping for a couple more paragraphs on either examples of modern sites or platforms that don’t overly rely on js or a way for end users to use these sites loading only the bare minimum js.

I could just google that information but I was enjoying your point of view. Anyway that’s just my 2 cents

He would wish that he did. He hates his kids

Yeah right. The idiom is a thousand monkeys with typewriters could eventually produce the entire works of Shakespeare, not end users.

If someone tries to send me money with X Pay or whatever, it will at least be a easy sign I should cut all ties with them

You’d think the trans hate and nazi love would be enough for everyone to defederate with them.

Until sorry little pig boy spez’s god tells him “that isn’t very cash money of you” and then does a nazi salute, then he will step in to remove mods who block his god’s site

Would rioting actually make anything better? Seems like people have more to lose by rioting than they do by posting a mean tweet

Instances that don’t vet users sufficiently get defederated for spam. Users then leave for instances that don’t get blocked. If instances are too heavy handed in their moderation then users leave those instances for more open ones and the market of the fediverse will balance itself out to what the users want.

Why do you need your own community? You guys are adults the same as us

It isn’t if you are privileged, the same as the US

It just scrapes for data, you can’t log in, post, or comment so no need to use the API

If he think Reddit hates his conservative views, he’d explode if he came here

If we left it up to our government, that’d probably be what happens