DA, the one half way decent platform. XD
Tumblr, too, once upon a time. Started out as a side project built by a guy and a programmer from his company he paid to help him. He hated social media sites like Facebook and wanted to build a social media site that he would enjoy using. Someplace where he could post his photos and follow people he liked so he could see their content, and that was it.
And now its a massive data-grabbing corpo. What an inspiring story.
I dunno if I’d call it a massive corporation now. Data grabbing? Most likely, it’s got ads at the very least, so it’s got ad metrics. But it’s owned by the same people who own WordPress now.
Honestly, the best part of modern Tumblr is that the creator sold it to Yahoo for just over $1 billion, and then Verizon sold it for less than $3 million 6 years later. They tried to monetize it, royally screwed themselves in the process, and ended up selling it for less than .3% of what Yahoo bought it for in the first place.
The original owner took his money from the sale, disappeared from public life, and only pops up occasionally when he makes a donation to some charity or another. All while Verizon gave themselves hemorrhoids trying to make it into another data-grabbing social media blackhole like
TwitterX or Facebook.
Lemmy seems to be trying its best to teach me about furry porn.
OwO
While I’m not into furry porn, I love the community around it. I’ve actually had random encounters with a few furies and they are awesome peeps.
Same, and they’re usually some of the best engineers out there.
They even helped develop the COVID vaccines.
Furries need high paying jobs to be able to afford all those commissions and fursuits, after all.
That’s really cool!
You know, you can be into furry stuff without being into all the porn…they ARE separable. It’s not any more harmful than anime fans or trekkies, really. There’s tons of crossover, actually.
Memes. Memes everywhere
Listen I didn’t choose the life, the life chose me.
I feel the same. To each their own, I just don’t get it, but, I’m glad those that do have a place to be themselves!
Lemmy is great but the majority of you guys have a, r/notlikeothergirls vibe.
Like you know something about the world and by saying, “I am not mainstream I am alternative,” you are making yourselves inclusive in some way. You don’t know anything the rest of the world doesn’t already have some idea about. Some sort of secret knowledge. I think my favorite thing I have seen on here is people thinking they are private and secure on the Fediverse. Despite the fact you are on a self hosted instance of someone’s hardware and handing your privacy and security to someone random or an entity at random.
Being inclusive is not how you educate people. It’s how you isolate your knowledge and make people think you are a jerk.
Lemmy attracts this FOSS/linux/firefox/self-hosted or die mentality because the biggest jump in Lemmy users came from a corporation messing with a product they liked
Which is good.
Without “die hard” FOSS people we wouldn’t have Lemmy, Linux, Apache, Firefox etc etc etc. I mean, dont shit where you eat I guess I what I want to say.
You’re a real man, could you check my profile?
I reviewed your profile. Personal opinion. You have some personal growing to do.
It feels like you are a 14 yo edgy person watching too much right wing echo chambers.
It’s just a big mess.
People like me are the black sheep among thousands of white sheeps, between lefties and boomers. I could only be in an eco chamber if I was literally schizophrenic. Right-wing people have to deal with woke every day it’s just impossible to ignore it.
Lol sure buddy, you’re all different from … checks notes … 2 whole groups of people.
You sure should get out and around a bit.
The “bAd wOkE” is literally made up by the far right, and I see you identify with them, so much for the lone rebel lol.
Yes, anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a far right extremist.
You’re really taking the discussion to seventh heaven.
Jesus what was the original version of this?
Cringe. The original version is cringe.
I found a Reddit link to an original
Thank you. I’ll save it in case I ever have to induce vomiting with that HailCorporate nonsense…
Good fucking god. Whatever moron created this… I hope they are as happy as they are stupid.
Huh, I say “gotchu fam” too. Anyway, thanks! And yeah, that’s cringe.
Youtube taught you to be yourself? The site where basically everyone fakes a striking and cheerful personality because of how difficult it is to build an audience if you don’t?
No you didn’t, that’s a Google search to a cropped image
Holy yikes, batman
The sweet release of death cannot come soon enough
Which generation? Im 36 and i was definitely raised online.
Gen Z (most likely)
they’re gonna make a movie about this
They did. It called “Wall Street” (1987), where they told us that, “greed is good.”
One of these things is not like the other…
DeviantArt really caught me off guard… lol
What about 4chan and 8kun? Asking for a friend 😐
Taught me to be racist :(
One of these things is not like the others.
I want to see the original too.
Edit: Nevermind, it’s posted below. It’s really cringey.
This is what neoliberalism does. It privatizes everything, including the individual. Everyone is a product. Everyone has a “brand”.
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haha silly commie. if there’s no money, where you gonna get your money?
Why’s everything gotta be about money? Good things happen without it. Rain falls, feeds a fruit tree, makes a fruit, I eat it, poop out the seeds, new fruit tree grows. Money doesn’t fall from trees, but I can’t eat money.
The whole system is poorly prioritized to protect people’s things instead of people. Even then it does a poor job and only protects the things that belong to those with the most things. It’s not even about those people, just their wealth, because if somebody else got their wealth no one would care about them anymore.
I don’t care about communists or capitalists or any ists you can name. To hell with Mao and Thatcher and Lenin and Reagan and Trump and Biden. Fuck em. My question is why can we always find money for war, and for rich people to do stupid shit, but never enough for health care, or food for hungry children, or anything like that. Fuck anybody okay with hungry babies.
Eating and apple and pooping out the seeds might grow new trees, but none of those trees are likely to make apples like you ate.
Money is a convenient way to trade your work or skills for someone else’s. Like the guy who grafts apple tree scions together to make the apples that taste good grow in their orchard.
Now when the guy who knows how to grow hood apple trees decides he doesn’t want to compete against anybody else’s apples and squashes them, we have problems, and need rules to keep that from happening.
I like how you equated money as a goal to money as a tool and that because the latter is a good idea then the first one must also be a good idea.
I found this list of true-to-seed fruits and vegetables I thought you might find interesting. I found it on The Spruce.
Certain heirloom apples, such as Antonovka
Polyembryonic mango seeds
Lemon
Lime
Orange
Peach
Papaya
Apricot
Nectarine
Heirloom tomatoes
There are tons of other heirloom vegetables, I don’t know why they only mentioned tomatoes on their list but yeah.
Right liberalism is about individual rights, economic freedom and freedom in general. Left-wing countries will give big tech more power cause they’ll have advantages over other companies and groups cause they have the money to pay for unnecessary laws that the left likes and they’ll be friends with the government. In countries even more on the left the problem will be the same but added that you won’t have any economic freedom and individual rights, small groups and companies will most likely not exist or die in the minute they’re created and you won’t be able to support them cause you basically doesn’t own your own money and the money will he spent on useless taxes that you supported. Your ideas give big tech power, you’re not the resistance but the perpetrator. Big techs have grown more and more as the world has become more leftist and you insist in not noticing the base of your mentality is helping big tech.
Right wing countries do this. What do you think South Korea is? “Economic freedom,” is freedom commensurate with economic power, which means freedom for people with money, and “personal responsibility” for people without. The opposite of government regulation of business is corporate domination of government. You’re conflating these opposites to falsely align organized labor with “big business.” The entire right-libertarian political project is a smokescreen for the Kochs and their economic class to baffle morons into thinking the policies they want benefit the little guy.
A company can only thrive above all others without good products is if it has support from the government or is a company owned by the government, right-wings want to reduce the State as much as possible while the left often wants to give the State more power. I don’t know how you think people having control of their money instead of giving it to the government for them to do whatever they want is some conspiracy by the corporations but you must note that the last thing a big company wants is that the people have choices and control over their own money, they want people to be babysitted by the government and that they’re their own choices. We act with the principle that anyone can be bad and the power can corrupt people so we work for the power to never be concentrated in the hand of one person or group.
You’re right, True Capitalism has just never been tried!
We already live in a true capitalist society but it’s fastly leaning to the the left. People were happier in the past and capitalism was full on its tracks and countries were more conservative.
are you talking about the years of economic prosperity in North America after the New Deal, the end of the second world war, and the establishment of the United Nations? are those the small government policies that created “real capitalism”? or are you talking about the decline and destruction of global communism at the hands of the Reaganite social order that immediately preceded a half century of malaise and the destruction of the working class? this conversation cannot produce anything for you if you cannot come to the realization. don’t wince. open your eyes and turn your head to the mirror, stupid american. the corn syrup teeth rotting out of your head are the reward they gave you for winning.
You like mental gymnastics.
I really wish to know how people having total control over their lives is some evil capitalism conspiracy.
Wow man, bet you think it’s the LGBTs fault too and that the EU is some leftist place with less freedom than the US.
Travel a bit, helps heaps for people like you, I mean if your freedom includes stuff like holidays…
Travel a bit, helps heaps for people like you, I mean if your freedom includes stuff like holidays…
ouch, right in the freedom 😁
One of these things is not like the others
I need to log into my old deviantArt account again. Those were fun times.
Don’t bother. Everything has a watermark on it now.
Pornhub taught me I’m picky af
Pornhub taught me people like incest. Maybe it’s related to game of thrones?
It is just mindless pursuit of the forbidden for algorithm cheering reasons. And then you need to have had hot sisters to lust after growing up. With so many one children families you end up with a relatively small proportion of the population that could even care.
On the other hand, adding one incest adjacent keywords to the title, if it means 3% more clicks they’ll do it
I mean, we all know all those step-siblings (or actual siblings) videos are pure bullshit, but you’re right, it seems they attract some serious clicks. Or so I’ve been told.
Those click could be superstition about algorithm. I often click on them, it’s not because the word “step” but the word is there anyway. Porn sites aren’t sophisticated enough by and large to do proper a/b testing and find out if the word step make want difference. Especially when the actual content doesn’t even play with the incest concept itself.
I get you, but you can’t deny that “genre” still is a huge hook, also anime is full of that shit (the whole “they’re not actually blood related” bs lmao).
I don’t know, for me it feels chasing the forbidden for forbiddenness’ sake. The biggest clue to that is how the actual content does really do anything with what the title promises. It doesn’t change what’s on screen
Pornhub prob made you picky. Be less picky it’s great.
Indeed, indeed.
If it’s not underwater trans midget porn, I’m not interested
Picky is a weird way of saying normal. Just because you’re straight doesn’t mean you’re picky if you don’t like trans or gay stuff.
Is this a Deviant Art ad?
