We’d be here regardless.

I’m not watching ads.

Like I’ll just not watch anything. It really is that simple for me.

But until then 🏴‍☠️

You’re right. We are past capitalism at this point imo, though. They don’t need employees at all to extract “value” from the rest of us. They are like digital kings. We pay them to be on their lands. You should see the amount of money they extract from some of us just to be allowed to play. I pay them more than all of my bills combined to be allowed eyes in their digital fiefdom.

Do it or starve. That is the reality for a lot of us. Maybe not you, yet. (If you’re lucky enough to have a job that doesn’t need the internet)

Rockstar too

The working class could stand up for themselves any day now.

Why protect them?

Right now they have real human women insisting to those men they love being choked and treated like shit all so those woman can make a buck.

There is nothing worse than that.

The Ai is fake. It is better.

So when you use chatgpt there are apps you can use, they are basically just gpts with a specific prompt right now.

When they incentivize the masses using their photos.

So basically “do you and your friends want to star in the latest fast and furious? Scan here, id here, sign here…”

That’s how they will do it.

The big answer to that is creating value on the site itself, no?

You have a point but maybe the gatekeeping is a good thing?

Average user doesn’t care about federation would translate to the average user doesn’t care about this community. Maybe?

It’s like how some old forums would charge for an account. Kept a certain low effort person from signing up. Sure it might turn people off but if you do enough work to understand how to get in then there’s a level of buying into it that might make you care more.

Just some thoughts.

Reddit used fake accounts from the beginning.

If we want a real space it’s going to feel “dead” compared to that anyways.

So yea, I agree.

Must not be that. I’m still here.

Oh hey I’m not shocked at all by this.

Fuck spez.

I think the future of obvious ads are Ai, but the future of ads are your own family members and friends hawking dish soap for 1% commission rates on their social media.

Oh shit where do I buy?

I’m hoping the last iphone I bought will last until we get entirely new communication devices because the way this bs is going is bleak as fuck.

My pixel had massive problems with the cherry being when its modem went out when I was on my way to my first vacation in near a decade. Just… stopped working in my hands 1 month outside of warranty. I didn’t drop it, nothing.

It. Just. Stopped. Being. A. Phone.

Never the fuck again.

We learned nothing? lol my dear friends.

THEY learned how to do it better and we the people learned to bend over and take it.