One specifically bad thing about BlackRock is them buying up huge swaths of single family homes which increases prices and makes it more difficult for anyone to own property. Then they rent them out to people after they were not capable of getting a mortgage.
But BlackRock is absolutely enormous so that is just a drop in the bucket of what they do.
To be fair I don't think it is possible to come up with a legitimate argument for making adblocking illegal. You would have to argue that people aren't allowed to own anything such as their computers.
I'm definitely trying. This is not how I expected things to turn out on Lemmy. I tried starting with more high effort content and establishing a community for actual discussion, but lemmy world admins killed that and it hasn't recovered here on lemmy.ml.
Honestly that was a pretty big blow to my predictions of the future of Lemmy as a place to actually discuss more serious things with people. I hope Lemmy succeeds and does well as a place to actually talk to people, but I worry it is going to mainly be a place to repost memes for awhile until it gets smaller and smaller and eventually fades from anyone's thoughts.
I filter by new and all instances frequently every single day and I'd wager that low effort meme content is about 80% or more of Lemmy by engagement. There are far more posts created that aren't memes that nobody comments on or upvotes, but I consider those basically dead content.
Perhaps some day people will engage with more critical thinking topics, but until then blocking all memes is basically blocking Lemmy.
I tried all of them and I kept going back to Jerboa so I've stuck with it for now. I might try them again at some point.
There was always something weird with most of them with the way they implemented profiles, profile pictures, profile banners, community icons and community banners that made them seem off. I haven't encountered any bugs. I'd be curious to know what bugs people are running into with it.
I don't trust them implicitly, but I do believe they are less likely to do certain things than Google which is enough to use them instead of Google for Email.
It's relevant. They had to violate their own rules in order to do so to protect their opinions despite it being inconsequential to anything. Having an opinion on something they don't agree with has the potential to earn you an instance ban regardless of the controversial nature of the topic.
These aren't admin like qualities. It's just childish. However this is getting off topic. If you want to know more feel free to message me directly.
Lemmy world admins will ban first and attempt to justify it later. They operate on feelings rather than sticking to their own rules. I've also watched them in their own ban discussion channels ban people on whims and laugh about it then have to come up with a reason later.
Maybe this user is a problem or maybe not, but I don't trust lemmy world admins to hold any kind of integrity regardless.
There is only going to be one IP address per house in most cases. If you check https://www.whatismyip.com/ on any computer in the same household it should come up with the same result.
I don't know what you are trying to say here. I'll do my best to explain my point.
When I go to use a browser I have never had the expectation that I should be earning money for doing so. I do not believe this is a use case that most people have had. Similarly with some of these new Twitter clones like BlueSky you can send people money for some reason. Again, this is not a use case that I expect from a social media platform. The transfer of money to myself or to other users in these scenarios does not make a lot of sense.
Where is does make sense to have money involved is paying for software.
Indeed. I am curious about why it needs to be there at all even as an opt-in. Some thought process went into implementing it into the browser in the first place. Did this solve any problem someone had? I am actually curious and actually do not understand.
One specifically bad thing about BlackRock is them buying up huge swaths of single family homes which increases prices and makes it more difficult for anyone to own property. Then they rent them out to people after they were not capable of getting a mortgage.
But BlackRock is absolutely enormous so that is just a drop in the bucket of what they do.