The trending section has always been a waste of space on the site. I used ad blocker to hide it.
The trending section has always been a waste of space on the site. I used ad blocker to hide it.
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Boomer AI wrote the title.
I disabled it on my phones. I’ve found it to be completely without value.
Had to look up what substack was. Not sure if that speaks more of it’s irrelevance, my ignorance or if it’s a 50/50 split.
I think the answer to that question would completely depend on what you value.
I don’t think for myself, it’s primarily the fault of bots, misinformation and ads. It’s… Us. We’re not as interesting as we like to think we are and I have just gotten exhausted slogging through the “look what I can do” posts.
It’s much more rewarding for me to follow videos or threads of people actually creating something that interests me than it is to scroll through feeds consisting of online acquaintances posting memes, pics of purchases, food and locales.
My preferred medium is YouTube subs via freetube of channels whose content appeals to me(carpentry, car builds, mtb, etc). I don’t use any social aspects of the platform, I just like to watch the content.
That works in both directions. Don’t assume that the few that didn’t return are the ones that would have saved Reddit via incredible content.
If I had to watch an ad, deep fake or not, I’d just stop watching YT vids altogether.
This has been Tesla’s modus operandi since day one of Musk’s involvement and the bootlicking fanboys have helped blame the victims of the failures to keep legitimate claims from gaining ground in recalls.
https://www.theverge.com/2020/10/5/21502379/tesla-modely-roof-flies-off-convertible-quality-issue
You can still opt out by opting not to use Dropbox.
Everyone has a price.
Modern problems require modern solutions. Identify as female.
I use a greasemonkey script for desktop and the Connect app on my phone to block instances. If I remember correctly, I think someone told me that instance blocking was coming in the .19 update.
I’ve got Grayjay on my phone but I very rarely watch YT on it so I’ve not really used it yet. Almost 100% of my watching happens on the PC and I’ve absolutely fallen in love with Freetube. No shorts spam, sponsorblock, more useful features on the player, it’s pretty fantastic.
YT’s push into ad-blocker blocking did the same for me that Reddit’s API change did, that being it was enough of a push for me to stop using their platform. In Reddit’s case, I get my fix from Lemmy and in YT’s case, I use Freetube to watch videos. In both cases, I’m sure they’re not losing money in my absence but I do feel better not giving them the data that I used to.
It’s not. I’ve had some of the same empty communities for more than a month in that block.
There is a way to opt out. Stop using FB.
I think it will be very easy to find a host that federated from them, making it easy to mitigate the damage.