• x3x3@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    Arguably there is now more censorship on Reddit than on twitter.

    • misteloct@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I’m only here because I saw it posted on Reddit over the years. Keep doing it, it’s working…

        • arakhis_@feddit.org
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          4 months ago

          to you, the 9 other likers and the one disliker:

          I’d argue “under unregulated capitalism” and would love to hear how Im wrong here: When you buy an apple from a farmer in EU thats local to your small town, I’d say thats pretty ethical? Isnt it??!

          • untorquer@lemmy.world
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            4 months ago

            Your example is fine. It’s not an option for most people to be able to source everything they need where the supply chain doesn’t rely on exploitation of labor and resource extraction somewhere along the process. Whether it’s in the materials used by the producer, the logistics in goods transport(oil & gas, shipping, warehousing, etc), or manufacturing of goods (labor, production house, etc…), the chain relies on exploitation somewhere along the way.

            Buying the apple from your local farmer still relies on the oil industry to run farm equipment or transit of the product. By and large this is minimize when buying local from independent producers. Those, however, are often more expensive.

            The consumer is the last step of exploitation. Where the profit stems from. Again, your local farmer probably isn’t extorting you, but your local grocery store probably is.

              • untorquer@lemmy.world
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                4 months ago

                Sure regulate it then, effectively, and cut out any international trade which allows for the procurement of goods through a non-regulated system. Find a common agreement of what regulation is and find a way to ensure no one has an incentive to break that regulation. Find a way to ensure that a capitalist cannot accrue such wealth as to influence politics (or skirt whatever law you want against it).

                The only people I’ve heard who want NO regulation are AnCaps and yeah lol no - (and also they still want property rights ig).

                People just want a better system than what we have now. Which is laissez-faire capitalism. Beyond that there’s the political philosophical aspect that “capitalism” can and does effectively mean rule by the wealthiest.

                Lot’s of people would be happy with a market system in a socialist society. Lots of people want Anarchism. Lots of people want Communism(the good or bad kind depending on who you ask).

                • arakhis_@feddit.org
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                  4 months ago

                  Id just love to see more corporations being like Mondragon(spanish) in the top ranks (i.e. stock corpos) but I would not want governments specifically to gain ownership forcefully.

                  So I’d call it regulated capitalism - as you said, just not paleo libertarian laissez-faire as we clearly see how that doesnt work once all markets are established (and even the competition phase was, as we all should know, pretty questionable historically cough imperialism cough)

      • MochiGoesMeow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Really? I go out of my way to search on duckduckgo when looking for products and filtering out Amazon.

        Its been easy for me. My hatred of that man makes it worth the effort.

      • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        4 months ago

        That is the one that’s killing me too. I just received an email that my subscription date is coming up. I want to cancel, at least my soul really wants me to cancel. But my broken body, limited $$, and limited mobility makes me feel like it would be cutting of my nose. It is really difficult to get to, never mind around, local stores.

        • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
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          4 months ago

          If it helps, one of main arguments of the antitrust lawsuit against Amazon that the Biden administration opened was that Amazon routinely, actually, costs you money because they use their platform to offer more expensive options in your searches first and other means: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/09/ftc-sues-amazon-illegally-maintaining-monopoly-power (I’m not sure if that link with detail or with a much clarity as wherever I first read it but I can’t recall where I originally read it 3 or so months ago, I’m afraid).

          The only major advantage that I’ll fully admit Prime has is speed of delivery; I admit I do use it when our cats run out of food and I dropped the ball on making sure we had more or I need filters for our air purifiers that just noted they need new ones.

          But, even if you can find cheaper versions on Amazon, it can become easy to fall for the setup of their site if you use it by default all the time.

      • Caketaco@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        Could always pick up piracy. Hard to beat a 100% off coupon.

        Simply pick up uBlock Origin and browse some community-vetted streaming sites on FMHY. (Short for Free Media Heck Yeah, a site that showcases community-vetted sites.)

        That’s just streaming, no downloading. Simply find streams of whatever shows you’re invested in and binge as usual!

        I’ve even gone as far as taking old laptops of mine and having them full screen these sites on startup. Then, I simply hook the laptop up to my TV via HDMI, plug in a Bluetooth keyboard, and binge away!

    • cally [he/they]@pawb.socialEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Out of those, the only one I use is Whatsapp… kinda hard to get away from it where I live, literally everyone I know in real life uses it

    • applemao@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      How can you convince anyone to get off these ? Everyone I’ve showed lemmy to is terrified it’s a virus, and what chat platforms are there besides messenger that we can convince anyone to go to? Maybe I need smarter friends, lol.

      • kautau@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        What you’re describing is intentional. Keeping people dumb about the tech they’re using while maintaining messaging like “Facebook works day and night to keep you safe” was the point all along so that people don’t understand what they’re doing. Granted that extends far beyond social media, but still

        • applemao@lemmy.world
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          4 months ago

          They don’t realize it’s the big shiny companies that are actually scamming them and stealing their data.

      • nadram@lemmy.world
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        4 months ago

        It is a very big ask… For chat i moved to Signal and convinced my closest relatives and friends to humor me and get the app, but they didn’t let go of Whatsapp. It’s lonely but i enjoy the quietness, and do not miss the endless groups!

      • r.EndTimes@lemm.eeEnglish
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        4 months ago

        That was the goal of big corporations and more simplification over time and less customization, went from webdev not seeming viable since every mf could make their own website and would to everyone being incompetent to the point they cant use websites and can only use the few popular apps.

      • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.ukEnglish
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        4 months ago

        One of my phone browsers has warned me that one Lemmee instance is a scam, that doesn’t help if it is happening to others.

      • tomenzgg@midwest.socialEnglish
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        4 months ago

        To be fair, Lemmy’s UI does it no favors; I can’t entirely blame your friends for thinking it looks sketch.

  • nectar45@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Look…I know we all hate reddit cause they kicked like half of us for no good reason but like…spez doesnt even compare to how evil Musk is

    Then again…X is arguably still a better social media platform than reddit is…

    Ok nevermind

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      No. At this point Reddit is evil because it’s censoring anti-fascist content and organizing. It’s becoming a Nazi bar just like the rest of them.

    • Sibshops@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      4 months ago

      It’s just a shitpost. It’s poking fun of people being on reddit, with a screenshot from reddit. There’s no deeper commentary than that.

    • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Spez is only less evil because he doesn’t have enough money to be in the oligarch club. He’s just one of their toadies. He’d absolutely be the same way if anyone actually gave him the power they have.

      • FrostBlazer@lemm.ee
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        4 months ago

        Reddit has about soft power for a while now. Ever since they scapegoated Ellen Pao, imo. They’ve been changing things relatively slowly compared to Twitter in terms of enshitification, and being more careful about who they piss off at any given time. They’ve become more emboldened ever since they allowed bot farms and bad actors that commented on their behalf, mostly around the time they killed 3rd party apps.

        Reddit could be seeing tons of users leaving the site daily, but they’re for sure replacing them with bots to paint a better picture and drive engagement. The same thing applies to Twitter as well. It’s why on BlueSky for instance, I don’t see ragebait dominating my feed due to the more robust moderation tools compared to Twitter and Reddit.

        Lemmy has avoided most bots due to the manual approval processes from what I can see. I think Lemmy should strongly consider implementing BlueSky’s moderation tools though.

  • Geetnerd@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Well, a few hours ago, I got permanently banned from Reddit, again, but this time with no explanation messages, or any recourse.

    I suspect it was from my contant mocking of Musk and Trump, and the GOP in general.

    Fuck them.

  • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I use Twitter and reddit for porn, nothing else anymore. People/communities I follow are ghost towns elsewhere. Everytime I point this out, people get butthurt, yet none of them link to their porn profile.

    Post the (adorable, lanky, femboy, who has glasses and a thick uncut cock) porn, and as the saying goes, ‘they will cum’.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It’s hard to find places dedicated to foreskin (the /c is just crickets), cbt, estim… tons more. Even harder to find ones that aren’t just shells for their onlyfans. I’ve been checking every few months for the 🐦 I follow to hop to bluesky or mastodon, and only around a quarter have done so thus far. For reddit, where else can I find a vast array of kink content that is getting fresh stuff daily? Like actually, where? I’ve been searching the internet for a long time, and besides FurAffinity, e621, reddit and occasionally twitter, it’s table scraps for any sort of quality kink content.

    • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      Spez would be very disappointed to hear you say that. He would immediately shoot another DM to Elon telling him he’s trying real hard to be just like him.

  • nuko147@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Twitter got abandoned 1 month after the fascist bought it. Account deleted 6 months ago.

    Reddit is on transition right now. I’m still checking it, but the time i spend there is much less, since i made a Lemmy account.