• eeltech@lemmy.world
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    Nowadays its all about monetization :/

    Lemmy is kinda refreshing and reminds me a lot of the early internet/reddit.

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        Feeling sad from the debt you’ve racked up paying for digital clothes for your avatar in what can barely be described as a ‘game’?

        Welcome to Better Help, where you can pay us money to rapidly* connect you with a qualified* therapist who definitely won’t leak all of your sensitive health information so that online ads can drain you of even more money and mental stability!

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          Tired of having your data stolen in ways that can be used by both corporations and governments to manipulate you? We at incogni can help you against both*. By utilizing the few remaining laws on data protection, you can pay us to send emails to hidden legal departments to express your wishes for them to follow your desire to not be targeted by invasive advertisers. While you can do that process yourself, goodluck finding the email address. Unfortunately you won’t know if they complied until they get hacked by teens showing off and leak your data in the process.

          Incogni, sometimes preventing both incels or gay internet catboys(for more information look up SeigedSec telegram") from uploading your personal data.

          *governments can still determine every site you visit due to the default settings in DNS records leaking that data to your government controlled and logging ISP. If you are a US citizen they will also pay google for your data with your tax dollars . Please change your DNS resolver to Cloudflare or Quad9, it might even speed up your loading time.

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            First off, lol, but secondly and in fairness:

            If you use something like incogni or … aura? Aurora? Theres some second one now thats being widely promoted…

            If you used one of these things to sort of mop up whatever data you have out there that private brokers have, and then followed your very good advice and used a different DNS system, along with an actual no log, obfuscated payment VPN…

            That might actually result in what apparently we olds have known as basic online privacy.

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        Do you have trouble watching your favourite racist shows without the Imperials eavesdropping on - and occasionally executing - you? You need Nord VPN. Because Skyrim belongs to the Nords!


        Internet in Skyrim… Skynet? Interim?

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      Yeah me too.

      If you liked this comment make sure to annihilate that up vote button, follow my account and subscribe to my patreon so you can get access to comments like these 24 hours early and get a cool role on my personal discord!

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        I’m sorry, I think I annihilated that upvote button so hard I had an integer overflow

        Enjoy your technical downvote

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      As the cycle continues the more niche places will continue to have that feel. Always vigilant for the nuttos but comes with it being a non mainstream community. Good and bad.

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      Thats the crux of it all. The a lot of the funniest videos 15+ years ago were just random videos on random accounts. There was no monetary incentive, so a lot accounts were just people who luckily captured something funny and uploaded it. Creative stuff felt authentic too, they were not chasing a trend, they were just trying to show off their original skills. I still love a lot of what we have today, but it is getting buried by trend chasers.

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      Nowadays…

      If there is one eternal constant in human history, it’s that every generation inaccurately believes that the problems they face are new.

      Human creates thing.

      Thing is cool.

      Humans exploit thing.

      Thing is no longer cool.

      Humans reminisce about how cool the thing used to be, and lament the loss of cool.

      If Lemmy gets popular enough, it too will be monetized and we’ll al have to find somewhere else to go.

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      I don’t think there will ever be a place like the old web again. Lemmy is better than reddit, but lots of the crap from there is just as common here, stuff that really wasn’t as common before. I’m absolutely certain a disturbing amount of people say dumb shit, make spelling mistakes and stuff like that simply to get “interraction”.

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        I can’t speak for everyone, but I post more frequently here than I did on reddit because we gotta get those numbers up.

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      I was to comment that this realization came to me when I’ve found an antique but active forum about gore, that I can’t access it anymore, and I’m stuck thinking if it’s for the better.