silentjohn

Piefed I think kinda of merges similar posts, but I'm not exactly sure since I don't use piefed. Otherwise, each instance can make their own mega thread

Ahh yes, the 20-year experiment that the entire platform was built off of 😄

Less than 24 hours if I remember.

This is not a thing.

I would argue, based on my perception of people who use and abuse those platforms, as well as data to suggest and confirm the above descriptors, that yes it is so wrong lol

I mean, you're free to eat mcdonalds all you want, but let's not pretend it's a healthy choice in any way you measure it

People don't want an addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, billionaire-owned platform.

They want a addicting, toxic, alienating, depressing, non-billionaire-owned platform ... Apparently.

I was on matapacos for a year. It just felt ... dead. I moved to mastodon.social and I feel fine there as an ML.

I felt the same about lemmygrad. I'd rather have a little bit more popular instance than finding one that specifically caters to my tendency. Overall the fediverse is still lefty af.

It includes some YouTube channels.

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

I just deleted my account from 2015. Fuck em.

So are you for or against mass surveillance veiled as "child safety"?

It was one of the first to make voice chat really really easy for gamers. Yes vent and ts existed before, but discord made it soooo easy and had integrated irc-style chat