Wrench Wizard @ BallsInTheShredder @lemmy.world

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What's the difference between lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml? Completely different instances? Sorry I'm new and still don't understand everything

PayPal is a no-no from me too. I've given them so many chances. When I was younger I once sold everything of value I had on eBay in order to purchase a microphone & headphones to record music. Upon payment, PayPal immediately froze my account for 6 months and wouldn't give me access to the funds. I was flat broke and had actually gone into the hole even deeper by paying to send off all of the packages, expecting to get the $ from the items asap. Those were my last dollars. Didn't even have gas $ to get to work. So PayPal froze the $300 ish I was supposed to get and I lost my job. Then for 6 months couldn't sell anything else, why would I? They'd taken everything OR be paid and it really fucked me up. Called them constantly and did everything they asked to verify but it still took 6 months of waiting after I'd done everything I needed to. After that I didn't use them for many years. Finally tried again and had similar issues fuck PayPal.

We need to be boycotting ads. If it's not for a vital service don't push it in my face. Ads are a damn plague and the internet was better before they permeated it.

Everyone that was on the internet pre-2010 knows this. What amazes me is some have been brainwashed to support them.

Commented about how YouTube should revert and become ad free once. People dogpiled me with "then how would it run?!"

Idk, how did it ever run before implementing ads?

How did.. almost any site get by before ads? Donations or just not being "big" enough to require so much. If you have a good site that people value they will pay for it.

If you're trying to sell something that no one really wants? Well that's why we have ads now isn't it? Companies trying to sell some bs no one asked for.

What's the MILITARY doing to prevent the 22 suicides a day?

Fr. Surprises me that military personnel of all people would be so fragile. Don't give in. Post "hey we're moving to Lemmy, see you there" and fucking go. It's 2023 going to a new site is the easiest thing in the world, it's not like 1999 where most of the forum would have difficulty doing that..

Everything

That would be a great way to generate revenue! All of the NSFW posts pretty much anywhere are just ads anyway, can't see the harm in letting more ads come in.

Speaking of that, a community/ies made of authentic NSFW content would also be refreshing. I feel like "real" people that would share their NSFW are 1: Always drowned out by 10/10 OF models. They post and see they only had 4 upvotes compared to OF models getting thousands and become disheartened against posting again. Also, would be cool if they, the real, non 1%er NSFW posters could have their own space and an actual chance to be seen. Personally I don't find the supposed "10/10's" with fillers, fake boobs etc. Attractive at all. I really don't.

Let me see some ACTUAL amateurs. How are you an amateur with an OF raking in thousands+ while using a professional camera setup, someone to film, a team posting your comment etc?

Who in their right mind considers them as amateurs? Pamela Anderson?

Super difficult finding "real" people nowadays. Personally, the content I filmed myself of a few exes is 1000× more alluring to me than anything on the major sites bc it's.. real.

Something about a person doing it for $ instead of just being a perv like the rest of us takes all of the fun out of it for me.

It's for the reason you names that I'm extra disappointed in the mods that "stepped up".

Straight porn too

Makes sense considering how 99% of the porn accounts had titles such as "WHOEVER LIKES THIS WILL GET SOMETHING FREE IN THEIR INBOX, TRY ME!"

Like damn, thousands of porn accounts made posts like this. Obviously they all hired spam companies to do it for them but what kind of ad company can't take the time to even learn the basics about the website they're advertising on? Really amazed me how few of the accounts seemed to actually be human, and even if human absolutely not the content creators themselves

Plus, I view those mods as spineless for caving the protest and making it possible for spez to boot the original mods simply to "keep the content coming"

Mfer there's the literal entirety of the internet available, your precious TIFU can wait a few weeks, everything is okay.

I used it for other stuff but when porn popped up on my feed I'd often forget about that other stuff and go down a rabbit hole of "damn, she's bad af! Anymore of her?" And whatnot

I ONLY did that bc Boost had a handy download button and made it super simple to collect the videos I liked. Before that I never used redshit for porn as when I jack it I just go to the hub or w/e as redshit's format regarding porn is too inconsistent for my liking. I'm picky, and will only find about 1 out every 50 women to be my type regardless of sub.

Just wasn't worth wasting my time on. However, with the download ability? If a baddie popped up I'd go through the profile and put the best videos in the spank bank to jack it to later.

Now Boost is dead. I hate the official app with a passion. Wouldn't use it if it were excellent bc of the huge "F YOU!" The site gave me and really doubt they've even implemented the download feature to the official app yet.

Hilarious how it took them so long to add a download feature. For many years i'd constantly see people tagging the video downloader bot or whatever or asking "where can I download?" And thought it was crazy that redshit and so many apps STILL hadn't implemented an easy download function when Boost has had it since day 1 of my use and always been so damn simple

They ban permanently for all kinds of bs. Felt like walking on eggshells at that place.

Didn't help that I wasn't 100% "left" - ironically I did lean left but if you're not 100% emphatically regurgitating all of the talking points they're currently recycling they gang up on you, mass report, call for mods, twist words etc.

Last month a mod flipped out and called me a Nazi bc I commented that it's bogus that mods blanket ban everyone that stumbles on and comments any sub that they dissaprove of.

Their logic was that if I comment on a conservative sub (Nazi?) Then that absolutely makes me a Nazi and there's absolutely no grey area or context.

That seems to be what most of the communities in some subs is like as well. If you're not high fiving them, you're shooting at them.

I don't like it.. I miss the old days of the internet, sure we all argued and shit but everyone at least had their little factions. Now it feels like the left runs the entire internet because most sites don't want Republicans there.

I get why but it sucks feeling like I don't belong on either side. I'm apolitical, which in itself has sparked a dozen redshit arguments and accusations. Can't say "apolitical" you're just secretly a centrist if you do. Can't disagree with BOTH sides because neither can fathom that. Can't sympathize with a single "red" point of view bc you're a Nazi.

Ugh.

Cringetopia (the sub) branched off and made a website. Loved that place. Unfortunately the subs own userbase hates the chAnge and boycotted the site, also running smear campaigns and bs saying the site was only in it for the money via ad revenue even though the site owners had paid out of their own pockets for the servers and there wasn't a single ad..

Loved that site :(

Happy for you friend! I also went from a few hours a day to nothing. Wasn't trying to improve myself, it was just out of sheer rage at how things were being done over there. Any time I would log in I would feel self hatred and just end up making lengthy comments about spez being an asshole.

Question, have you tried replacing the hobby? I've found hiking and writing - (writing lyrics/other things as I hike/walk) to provide even more enjoyment than I was getting online 24/7

Should've went with my old banned username..

Or maybe not, people were always saying weird things about it bc it was basically "YourMouthIsMyShithole"

Don't worry, I just wrote the first name that came to mind while dipping my balls in the shredder

A Balls doesn't change their username they leave the shredder right on the end just like their elementary school nickname

Got mine

Dumbasses

Downvoted but right. Average people did play a part of this though. The part we played was supporting the big businesses that were fucking us over. Oh, a new sports car even though my old one works fine? COOL. Give me that, I'll pay whatever you ask.

Excess. We live a life of excess. They provide it, we accept.

Unfortunately people are greedy and material oriented. Even the good people have so much excess. They don't think twice to see anything wrong with it. Everyone driving brand new cars to keep up with the "Joneses" played a big part. This never should have been a thing. Vehicles should've been for transport and nothing else, vanity should have never been a factor but.. people.

Same with fashion. Never should've been a thing. Clothes are for covering your body. Never should've mattered so much how we look. Again, vanity.

Makeup. Same story. People want to look a certain way so resources are obtained, money is spent, excess is gained. Vanity satiated.

Sports stadiums? Malls filled with bs no one needs?

Wants vs needs. People don't know how to separate the two anymore.

Even those that claim to. Often especially not those people.

Excess. So much excess.

My area used to be filled with farms. All you'd see is trees and farms.

They sustained themselves. Grew their own food, mowed their own grass, usually had a creek for water etc. Self sustainable and produced an abundance of food.

Now the entire fucking area is just.. businesses to provide the excess. No need to rely on ourselves anymore. The corporations got our back right? Bought up all the land and replaced farms that could feed hundreds with... A smoke shop. Grocery stores everywhere. People aren't growing their food anymore, they've got corporations to do that for them as long as they work for the corporations enough to earn the funds.

It's so fucked up. I miss the trees, miss nature. It amazes me that people aren't outraged and protesting this. They're turning my entire region into a massive strip mall and the people are...

Okay with it because it provides the excess.

Okay with it because they lost touch with nature long ago and can't fathom the value of it.

We've traded self sufficiency for reliance on corporations.

We've traded strength for dependency.

We've traded church for Twitter.

Clean water for fluoride laced tap water.

Roaming buffalo for cars.

It's fucked up. Everything is fucked up.

We just don't know it yet because our needs are met and then some