Sure, and not just that. Most, if not all people I know of whom I’d consider a ‘normal’ don’t spend time commenting on social media. By definition, everything we read on here comes from this self-selecting group of people who do not represent the majority.

I’ve always just muted users instead of blocking anyway. I don’t care if they see what I post. I just want them out of my sight

So Twitter is one step closer to being like Lemmy

Ever been to Lemmy?

Adblocker works on twitter too though, and I don’t really mind Elon profiting from my use of Twitter anyway. People should be compensated for running social media platforms like twitter.

I post gay porn. The number or right-wing rednecks that follow me with their public profiles is… confusing.

I tend to feel that if it’s a streaming service providing access to a wide range of videos, it could be argued that you don’t own them and, therefore, can’t download them either. However, you could still have the option to pay extra to actually purchase the video too. That money should go to the creator, though, who, of course, would also set the price. That could be free too. I, for example, have no issue with people watching my car repair ‘tutorials’ on YouTube for free.

Sure, I have nothing against that. I, however, still think that whatever platform hosts their videos deserves some compensation, right? So that’s going to be either subscribtion, ads or donations.

Ok, but ‘fuck subscriptions’ is a blanket statement directed at the subscribtion business model as whole, including the hypothetical well run, and non-greedy ones.

Right, but I don’t see how simply being on the platform makes one part of the problem.

Sure, but it’s also a fact that many of the YouTubers whose videos I deeply enjoy wouldn’t be able to make them if it didn’t make them any money

How do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don’t even finish most of the videos I start watching there, and the ones I do, I’ll likely never watch again anyway. Subscribtion seems much more logical profit model to a company like that.

Ah, I see. Live and let live.

But how do you apply this to a platform like YouTube? I don’t want to have to buy each video I watch.

What? Using twitter causes people to die now?

I wonder if the right-wing content actually has increased, or if it’s just the ratio of it compared to left-wing content as much of the left has seemingly abandoned the platform.

My feed was almost entirely non-political to begin with, and personally, I’ve hardly noticed any difference, though the little politics that do get thru tend to indeed lean right.

What’s the problem?

Doesn’t quite work with something like streaming services

My subscribtions are Protonmail, Mullvad VPN and ChatGPT. On top of that I’m paying a voluntary monthy donation to a podcast.

That’s it. If I had to guess, YouTube premium will be the next one but so far adblocking still seems to work.

Fuck ads and fuck subscriptions

How do you imagine developers and content creators to get paid if neither of these two options is acceptable to you?