This whole thread is a gem. So many amazing websites. It’s inspired me to make a website and hopefully be a repo for all your websites like the old internet

Would you lick it off or let the sun bake it until it’s a hard crust and crumbles off

I support them adding ads and commercials into their products like pop ups and stuff or they can sell my information

They should put ads in their stuff

You explained it fine. And I agree it’s a great use case. I’ve heard so many like this. It’s a potentially a great interface to a lot of things and I think that’s why there’s a big push to make people shit on it. Seems like Lemmy is a foothold for hating on AI. I don’t think the problem is your explanation its just cyclical people looking to hate on something. Just look at daily posts here about AI. They’re all similar to headlines I see in places like r/Canada towards immigrants

They’re taking our jobs They’re assaulting our women Think of the children Our culture is gone

Every headline is some variation of that followed by toxic takes towards the subject.

Really disappointing to see really cool new tech with loss of potential get shit on by a place like Lemmy where I thought people were more open to advancements in tech.

I feel like lol is equivalent to ankle socks vs whatever the fuck the other thing was

This man showed up to compete in the Olympics after his son was assaulted by a wild pack of turkish trans furry democrats. His Turkish sons last words were"Baba, şimdi dinlenmem gerek. Bu trans demokrat kürklerin bugün kazandı ama sen benim ölümümü intikamını almak için Olimpiyatlarda kazanacaksın, baba. Bana ya özgürlük ver ya da ölüm." -New York Post

I thought it was to dunk on the Asian teams

Maybe I’m not understanding. But my thing is stuff like this

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/1eirx34/i_wanted_to_use_the_wheel_of_lunch_to_decide_what/

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

Really, who organized it?

Wasn’t organized. It was all shit posting ideas that they agreed was funny and they individually acted on it. Same for everything else you see online. Its all memes.

Meme an element of a culture or system of behavior passed from one individual to another by imitation or other nongenetic means.

verb

Only one time?

Definitely wasn’t one time. 4chan has been spreading organized racism and culture jamming for decades

Seem like you’re saying we can organize culture only when it’s to be racist or when its making someone else money. It’s not even organizing. It’s spreading the idea that ads are out of control and how they’re responsible for the enshitification we see today.

Don’t we do that everyday with crazier and less important things.

I just watched a 40 min video online where 4chan collectively trolled tumbler over Steven universe skin color.

Why not?

It’s probably the only way. If ads work by being inconspicuous and manipulates people by making us believe we need something we don’t by making us feel inadequate and scared and envious through cultural appeals why wouldn’t it work in reverse by making more people aware what ads are and secondly by showing people these products suck. If every ad dollar needs to risk having counter advertising they will stop or just make it legal or ban everyone who does it with the help of admin and mods. Either way it’s a win for all of us systematically.

We all shit post already. What’s an extra few comments to call out the people who have ruined all our favorite places.

Hell ya. That works.

Be aware of ads. Not just the ones that are obvious. Be aware of the guy on your favorite GOT thrones instance posting about these cool new shirts he found online. Be skeptical of the ads right before Christmas where the viral video also has the same uncanny product placement of the full label in view of the camera as the girl jumps on the trampoline. Be aware. And then call it out.

Hell if you truly want to go back to OG internet go the Chicago way. Every ad you find, create 2 anti ads yourself saying how that t-shirt looks cool but you bought it and it ripped easily, after all if it isn’t an ad who cares. If you see people posting a temu night light, maybe you knew someone who had one but it burned down their house. Fuck these ads up. They took our internet and turned it into a swap meet. Counter advertise.

Use their tactics against them. Counter advertising works as a test to see where your favorite sites are headed. Reddit would ban accounts by the end who were screwing with their ad spaces.

And let’s get back to the idea of people being sellouts

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.

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.

As all sites should be. I’m on the internet, mr world wide. When did we expect privacy. Don’t put nothing online you don’t want the world to know.