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    Just like youtube, they think they made this.

    What they don’t get is that they are actually passengers on other peoples creativity.

    It’ll be fine. Just need to keep investing in opensource, openaccess alternatives.

    We guccii.

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      YouTube at least has the advantage of being really fucking hard to replace by an independent third party. Whereas Reddit is an extremely easy formula to copy and requires minimal server costs.

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          Floatplane is nowhere near close. Floatplane is only good for established creators with dedicated fanbases who are willing to pay, although admittedly it is really good for that. There are ways FP could start to encroach on YT but its still a long way off.

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        YouTube’s monetization is so hard to replicate on a less-trafficked website, and it’s their sheer volume of traffic + monetization which allows a lot of the content creators on youtube to exist. I actually think it’s a great example of a regulated market and one of the best mainstream platforms that has everything from the most mainstream to the most niche content.

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      “Legitimate interest” is used to cover a wide range of bullshit. I’ve seen it in a shop that had facial recognition cameras, they had a little sign by the tills that said “We use facial recognition for crime prevention and legitimate interest purposes” without even a clear way of opting out.

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      last time it was discussed they said they were leaving the option in “certain regions”, which probably means EU and maybe California.

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    Put simply, these massive companies and their server farms are going to have to figure out how to make money. That’s why I think the fediverse and it’s more decentralized, volunteer, donation based nature is going to be the future of a free and open internet, even if it continues to become a smaller minority of the internet.

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    Oh, well, that’s a bit late, since I already used uBlock Origin to deselect the categories of ads that I do not wish to see (all), and then used my feet to deselect the Reddit I do not wish to see (all).

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    Well it’s not like they didn’t collect the data before this. They just didn’t target ads to you based on it.

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    I had a fantasy about this earlier. That there was actual legislation that elucidated the right to decide what advertisements we saw in our lives, and that “none” had to be an option that was actually meant you never saw another fucking add.

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      It’s a nice fantasy, but I’m sure some sites would actually collapse. I’d prefer it and I think it would be more realistic if there were legislation capping the amount and formats of advertising that could be displayed on a webpage or over a certain period of time to an IP address. No more double ads before every video and every ten minutes within - it’s currently getting to be as bad as cable TV used to be, and I don’t know what hosting user-created content costs these days but I’m sure it’s cheaper than what cable companies had to pay to buy content from studios for broadcast and then actually broadcast it.

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      Even if I wanted to since the death of third party apps I haven’t had a reason to use or have a reddit account. I didn’t care enough to bother with the work around to get them working either. Glad rss still works, but pretty much why messages like that are news I find out through here.

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        I’m tempted to go log into my account to get the message. I know I had that setting turned off.

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    Reddit: “We’re going to make this place about selling you shit.”

    The Squatting Redditor: “That’s perfectly fine. Reddit is still the same. It’s still awesome. Right, guys??”

    Lemmy tell ya something. Reddit was awesome because it wasn’t a platform geared toward optimizing profit.

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    Guys, let me ask a question.

    How can you hide your comments from others seeing them?

    I started thinking about this possibility when I came across people’s profiles where comments were hidden. (Also, when clicking on “Send message” this option was not available.)

    I found the “Content visibility” and “Active in communities visibility” items in the settings (Account - Profile) and disabled them. Then I checked what my profile looks like from another application where I do not use my account. The result is that all comments are still visible.

    How do other users restrict viewing from comments and the ability to message them?

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      If someone blocks you, you can’t see their messages. Imo it’s dumb because it means you can tell who blocked you. In a sane situation, there shouldn’t be a way for people you’ve blocked to be able to tell that you’ve blocked them.

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        Some reddit spammers even block users who catch on to them, because it prevents people from outing them as a spammer in the comments.

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        It’s definitely not a matter of the blacklist where unwanted users are listed.

        The people whose comments were hidden were strangers to me before.

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      If they do it like Instagram, you have no control over the categories that get added and you can only opt out of one at a time, meaning the process will be extremely tedious and has to be regularly done.