I've never been someone who blocks people and I've never been into filtering posts on any site/platform. But there's no shame in it here. It's VERY intended for users to have that ability and not just use it when they're being harassed. For a bit I was even considering using adblock filters to get block some keywords but that hasn't been as much of a problem lately for me. But just a few communities and accounts are responsible for most of the doom and gloom.
No really food is not a good example. People will always need to eat so you're presenting a scenario where everyone has so much access to food and money that they can choose to forego some of it to enrich themselves. It will take a lot more than that to scare people. The idea that everyone will suddenly turn their backs on this consumer culture we're living in is not keeping me up at night either.
They can be interesting for a little while but the artists never seem to be thinking about the people who will have to see it every single day, they only think about themselves and the statement they want to make. It's completely egotistical and creates an environment that feels the opposite of welcoming and inclusive.
It's a cool idea and I was using it every day for a while. I love the gemtext format and I even made some "gempub" ebooks for fun. I have a site on flounder.online with some crap on it. Two things brought it all down for me.
The first is the hard TLS requirement. I've read all the rationales about this and still don't see the point. I get the principle behind it but it's not worth requiring that much infrastructure. It sucks all the fun and accessibility out of it. Which is my other issue.
We all know a platform can't be TOO accessible without becoming like twitter. But if accessibility is too low you'll end up with nothing but upper class tech workers moaning about the bougie problems that they created for themselves. The only capsules that had anything decent on them had HTTP proxies. It didn't feel like a platform worth contributing to for someone like me.
I've heard about the Spartan protocol which is similar but has no TLS requirement. I've been planning on getting into that but all I've done is read about it.
My mom pretty much had an existential crisis over this when she made a friend at work and her husband turned out to be Trump supporter. And this is in Canada. It makes you wonder where girls like that even find guys like that.
They change the interface pretty much every day. The people managing the image search are especially on crack. Features are disabled and then come back and then they're disabled and then they come back... I just go to Bing now. I'm sorry my desire to search square images was such a monkey wrench in your business model google.
It's really frustrating watching the furry community flip out every few months or so when a credit card company pulls the rug from under thousands of artists. All the problems that people complain about like power usage are solved by currencies that aren't bitcoin. But nobody wants that to be true, because being right is the most important thing in the world.
I'm pretty sure Tim Hortons has had access to AI menu changes for years now. It would explain a lot.