Do you ever worry about a malfunction and potentially burning the cat or starting a fire?

It’s not about the adds, it’s about personalized data collection and selling it to whoever wants it. It has nothing to do with seeing adds or if they are personalized to you. Say you are someone with an addiction problem and come here to talk about it, or seek help/guidance. Do you want that being sold to whoever pays a few bucks.

What about a woman who had a miscarriage, or was raped and had to get an abortion. That data on you is now being sold and not just as a general data point of we have X many people on this sub or w.e. It’s RampageDon had an abortion and has been on this sub for X minutes making X posts a day. Ublock isn’t stopping that or the revenue they will get selling it.

Policy updated yesterday where you can’t opt out of data farming. They are openly stating that they are selling targeted data about every link you click on, sub you subscribe to, anything you up and down vote. Not that I don’t think they weren’t doing this in some fashion already, but the option isn’t even there anymore. They aren’t trying to hide it and are basically gaslighting people and trying to tell them it’s actually a good thing you can’t opt out.

I tried to keep some things vague so people could have fun with rules like hat immortality. I wonder if boredom is too strict. I guess we’ll see.

My orginal pokemon blue save file and the 151 (152 if you count missing no) from my childhood. They are all just chilling and hoping that maybe one day I’ll come back and play with them like the good old days when we were masters.

What kind of phone do you have/ what do you use to keep your phone private. I’m asking genuinely. I’ve always been a strong advocate of privacy but felt like i was alone and fighting an uphill battle until recently finding this sub. So I’m still very noobish with a lot of it.

Phat

Doom scrolling wasn’t there in the early days of reddit. Lemmy is still new. I think people just had high hopes and expectations that lemmy would be a 1 to 1 replacement for reddit, but that was never going to happen. Reddit has had years to grow and optimize while lemmy is just a fledgling with a niche user base.

Also I think lemmy is missing that hook or gimmick to get, for lack of better words, the attention seekers here that will make posts and content just for upvotes or to show up on everyone’s front page. Not saying lemmy needs to be reddit, but I do think it needs a little extra something than just being a decentralized reddit alternative.

What this person is trying to say is they are exponentially better at being technically correct.

Haha thanks. Wrote it drinking my morning cup of coffee.

Pharma companies would already have a caffeine equivalent that would be only slightly different in structure so it would circumvent the law. It would then be sold at exorbitant prices and people would still pay even with the side effect of sometimes you eat someone’s face. Of course they would then sell you something else to stop the side effects. You would also have the caffeine purists who would start their own speak easies and organized crime. People “abiding by the law” would start calling the purist, plants, since that is where caffeine is coming from, while the synthetic caffeine users would be called zombies for the obvious face eating reasons. This whole thing would cause even greater divides between already split countries leading to all out war. WWIII plants vs zombies.