That’s not how this works. Eventually the way we search instances gets weighed heavily to the content with ads. Look at podcasts or youtube. You just can’t find that OG material and it’s not just because the Joe Rogan are just that much better at podcasting. It’s because the ads are expensive and the system is made to sell attention.
You cannot give an inch. You either have to stand firm and never tolerate any encroachment of advertising or you have to bend over and grab the ankles and brace for the massive ad injection into all our spaces. There can never be any middle ground. Like a weed you have to be proactive and the minute you let your guard down it’ll take over wearing the face of your favorite ishowspeed clone.
mechanically speaking though, you can just fork it
or leave lemmy.world (say) for another instance
It’s sliding further and further to the right, calling out transphobia gets your comments removed now if it’s against power users being transphobic or defending transphobia.
Maybe I’m not understanding. But my thing is stuff like this
Internet is sliding away from what it was originally in the worst way. it’s to the point you cannot create anything without forcing ads into it. At what point does just forking the instance not work. Who says github doesn’t just start charging people like an Azure subscription and then offer up as packages as a way to reduce cost
and then what? have the same fractional migration of users to yet another small corner of the internet?
Why not just collectively reject ads and fight for the spaces we have left instead.
Why not just collectively reject ads and fight for the spaces we have left instead.
How? Just say no?
