erogenouswarzone @ erogenouswarzone @lemmy.ml

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You said it brother - it's a beautiful feeling being here. The last few years of reddit have been absolute shit. And everybody keeps saying how all the memes are reposts, but I've never seen most of them, and the ones I have seen take me back and bring me joy. Thanks for the reminder that the internet can still be not entirely terrible.

Yeah, perhaps you're right.

Who is hosting this? Lemmy.ml, all the federated sites? With the reddit exodus there is probably a lot more activity. Who's paying for that? That's who they would be in this situation I think.

Interesting. I'd welcome something like cable where companies would host content to push their brands.

I was watching a "free" movie on Tubi the other day, when a commercial came on and blasted my eardrums. It really took me back.

For it was my late childhood and early adolescence that our family finally achieved cable television. If you fell asleep with the TV on, god help you when it woke you up at 2 AM with a commercial louder than an atomic blast playing Enya and Enigma in Pure Moods.

Glory to Cable Networks and bless the FCC for the awakenings. For even though everyone hated the constant volume change, the FCC was powerless to stop it against the might of The Telecommunications act of 1994, which they themselves crafted with the wisdom of the telecom industry. Specifically these glorious sentences:

Title III: Regulatory Reform - Bars any State or local statute, regulation, or legal requirement from prohibiting the ability of any entity to provide interstate or intrastate telecommunications services.

and

Title VII: Media Diversity - Requires the FCC to complete a proceeding to: (1) modify or remove national and local ownership rules on radio and television broadcast stations to ensure that broadcasters are able to compete fairly with other media providers and that the public receives information from a diversity of media sources; (2) review a certain ownership restriction with respect to cable operators and report to the Congress on whether such restriction serves the public interest; and (3) consider the applicability of the FCC's rules regarding network non-duplication protection, syndicated exclusivity protection, and sports programming exclusivity to programmers whose programs are transmitted on common carrier video platforms.

Which, among other things, allowed monopolies in media including ClearChannel which quickly ruined radio for everyone. Bless us all.

How is Lemmy paying for the servers they need to serve content? I have no idea, but someone is footing the bill.

It was always going to go that way. Any social media site is going to go that way.

Even Lemmy will one day go that way.

Here's the program:

1. Build a platform that people like using.
2. As more people use it, the creators will need more money to keep it up.
3. Realize there's much monies to be had.
4. Hire marketing and sales people
5. The platform becomes a company, sell to the highest bidder.
6. The platform implements algorithms that make them more money.
7. The algorithms make people hate the site.
8. Do many unpopular things to kick out the real content creators that once made the platform thrive.
9. The company is left with casual users that don't know anything about the platform, they're just there to find out what burger joint to go to in San Antonio or which caulk is best to use for an outdoor shower.
10. The company is very successful because they can push anything to the casual user and they will accept it as advice instead of what it really is - ads or algorithms to enrage them (because thats where the real money is - social media platforms keep you online longer if they piss you off)
11. Make huge profits for a while then become a latter-day digg

News outlets make more money when they scares people.

As a friend, get it sorted out asap. It will only get worse as you get older and one day you'll just have a disorder or a drug addiction or both.

There's plenty of free ways to talk to a counselor or therapist, and you just keep trying out different ones until you find someone you like. But they will help you find ways to deal with your problems that will make your future self capable of being happy and fulfilled instead of miserable and alone.

They're all places sad Pablo Escobar sits in the nobody memes, except he's removed from the pics.

If they piss you off, you will stay on their platform longer, and they make more money.

That is the sad truth of EVERY social network.

Lemmy might not be that advanced yet, but as soon as they get big enough to need ads to pay for bandwidth and storage, soon after they will add algorithms that will show you stuff that pisses you off.

One way to combat this is to take a break from the site. Usually after a week, when you come back it will be better for a while.

Is this a real comic, what is it called? Seems awesome.

Great PSA - birds are govt spy cams.

I tried one, but the water comes out cold, even when connected to the hot line. No can do's-ville.

Have you heard the good word?

I feel this.

I would save so much money if I had enough time to cook.

Well, it looks like you've come to the right place for another internet addiction.

Did I say hate? I said she's a tool.

Yum. I'd totally eat dino-meat, chicken-flavor or not.

SS is such a tool. Does anybody remember the big anti-gay speech that launched her career in The Way of the Gun? She'll do anything to get ahead.

Here's the speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAl5xGi7urQ