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Make the internet nerd again
Lemmy is just as much an information warfare platform as anything on Reddit. The Israel/Hamas coverage has confirmed that pretty conclusively.
Eh, talking about Isreal/Hamas/Palestine has been a sensitive topic for as long as I can remember. I wouldn’t be surprised if an argument broke out between two Catholics in a church on Sunday if they were talking about it. It’s an extremely devicive issue.
Very true! Here, have a fake Internet point lol
Without propaganda ?
Yep they said it lmao
They probably mean advertising, it’s a close word in other languages
That’s the main thing I hate about Lemmyverse is that the zealots and puritans came over too.
They always think you mean someone else when you say “please stop constantly trying to shoehorn your politics into everything”
My dude, everything is politics. Especially things like “I want a free internet” or “I don’t want to be drowning in ads” which is a huge part of the appeal of Lemmy are both DEEPLY political stances.
I see you can’t understand the difference between zealotry and normal discussion.
“I don’t want ro drowning in ads” doesn’t have to mean “but trump is Hitler evil Jews did this blah blah everyone who isn’t of my opinion is a murderer”
Actually, I’m going to add something to my last reply.
“not wanting to be drowning in ads” is in no way shape or form a political decision.
If you mean “because adverts are capitalism” then you’re part of the deeply naive problem.
It’s perfectly plausible - because it literally has happened - for people to construct a platform under our system (which is also hybrid anywat) that allows for social media to exist without adverts.
You’re literally the kind of person when I mean when I talk about trying too shoe-horn politics into things when it doesn’t belong.
*posts Starlight Glimmer with hammer and sickle*
If you think there’s no propaganda on lemmy then I have news for you.
Is it good news?
And fake internet points.
And I’m sure top men are working on monetization.
I mean I’d be really surprised if we have monetization through anything other than wikipedia style donation drives
I only use Lemmy though Boost but don’t some instances have ads?
I’ve already seen plenty of people advertising their onlyfans here.
I would say that is more spam than ad.
I’ve already seen plenty of posts and comments that look suspiciously product-placementy.
Idk why everyone keeps talking about kagi everytime searc engines are mentionned
Kagi appeals to the same people who like lemmy. They haven’t done any affiliate marketing that I know of.
You look like you like rigatoni. Perhaps you’d be interested in trying SmellFresh Fabric softener. It helps keep your knees bent while you use the tobacco masher.
Kinky.
Usenet and IRC were the good ole times.
You pretend like they are dead?
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Amazon: 1994
eBay: 1995
Match.com: 1995 (same parent company as tinder)
Hotmail: 1996 (MS owned in 1997)
Google: 1998
PayPal: 1998 (eBay owned in 2002)
If you look at the dot com bubble, there’s a lot of corporate colonization in the 90s. Many of them didn’t survive their stock crashing in 2000 (pets.com is a good example). Some things were not able to be launched until the internet infrastructure supported it properly (YouTube, for example), so yes some things do date to the 00s. But largely, by 1998, the internet was already on its current trajectory.
The reason Google was so disruptive at the time was that they didn’t charge websites to get listed – it was a business model that relied on actually finding what people were searching for. The fact that this model was disruptive at the time tells you how corporate it was even by then.
Downloading QWKs from local dial-up BBSs was the good ole times.
When Lemmy replaces Reddit, I wonder what will replace Lemmy when Lemmy goes corporate.
Lemmy will replace lemmy. It’s federated and open source by design, so if any corpo manages to take over existing instances, people can just create and move to new ones. Lemmy is the endgame. Lemmy is the final software, the last forum.
/s
ok, maybe if a better software comes along it might replace it. But it’s still safe in theory from corporate takeovers
“when” is an optimistic choice of a word
How would it go corporate beyond specific instances? That’s kind of the entire point.
Yeah, and it’s people arguing about cars, Trump, rich people, work, Linux distros, not pooping, and communism.
Swap Trump for Bush and this is what the early internet was like
We need memes, Spiderman memes
Bring me funny pictures of Spider-Man!
Not pooping? I’m almost afraid to ask, but that’s the only one I’ve not come across yet…
There was an asklemmy post shortly after the exodus asking how to avoid a bowel movement for three days.
I’m almost disappointed this isn’t like that one subreddit where people tried to stick as much Sharpies up their ass as possible. Almost.
I liked the fake internet points, but it definitely leads to karma whoring. So I’ll do without.
You could create a plug in that states your and everybody’s total karma. Karma is one of the worst ideas on the internet. A tool to enforce conformity and obedience
Boost shows you your total karma
Who’s Line is it Anyway had the right idea, the rules are made up and the points don’t matter.
I’ll have you know that the fake internet points are still here and I will continue to use them to determine my worth in the eyes of my peers.
Only if you look for them. Not really in your face.
270 karma in 4 months. Cute.
Oddly enough that’s an average of 10 points per comment.
Also I can’t see total up votes in Sync, or I haven’t figured out where that is, so I don’t know if the total karma is correct, but I can see they’ve only made 27 comments in 4 months.
Boost for Lemmy (evolved from Boost for reddit) just continues to call it karma:
Are you sure boost calculates it correctly? I remember some llemming trying to do it earlier but said it wasn’t federated correctly since total karma has been a non-goal for devs.
Don’t know, don’t really care. It’s just fake internet points.
Do me next
34.099 karma in 4 months. Cute.
Is that bad
It’s OK, I guess. My condolences for being stuck in Montana, though.
I moved here willingly. My condolences for your behavior edit: downvote away, I like it here
For what it’s worth, you got my upvote. And I’m happy you’re happy in Montana. But, it’s not Vermont. Just saying.
Me next
2,511 karma in 3 months. Cute.
It’s so… Free.
Speaking of monetization and propaganda, for your consideration, “Barbie”, now available on Blu-Ray and streaming services everywhere!
Please give me an affiliate link! I need my dayly dose of trackers!
that was such a great movie, I liked the part when you said “it’s barbin’ time” and totally barbed all over those guys
Reminds me of the old WoW forums night shift.
Great post. I give you my fake internet point up arrow.
