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it would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. the advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though and their definitions of family and friendly are absolutely fucked. but since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. tiktokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to

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oh im sorry you're a trans adult? super ban. you are super banned for life. you have upset Visa's feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. how could you do this to Google Ads?

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[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The companies doing this are americans and americans are pussies who think sitting in sauna naked with your same-sex family members is traumatic but watching endless gore is fun. The mindless religious zealotry, their puritan ancestors and lack of separation between church and real life is to blame.

[–] fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 19 hours ago

It's either that or I unleash the fedposting lmao.

[–] shani66@ani.social 25 points 1 day ago

I blame the rise of nu-puritanism on Google and payment processors. It's a load of bullshit that people can't even have negative feelings these days.

[–] PeteWheeler@lemmy.world 44 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yup.

If I can't say basic words and facts like, this woman was raped, this man died, etc.

I just don't use the website in any meaningful way.

[–] SippyCup@feddit.nl 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When I was a kid in Yahoo chat rooms... I saw things man.

These kids don't know.

Well the 4chan kids know but these normal kids don't know.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Imagine these little faggots in an Xbox 360 COD lobby.

(I am gay so I can say that word. You can’t, and actually, neither can I (Twitter gave me a three day ban for it))

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Look, there's absolutely nothing wrong with doing the occasional chore for the senior boys in school. And who doesn't like minced pork liver and heart, wrapped in bacon, with onion and breadcrumbs? Or an bundle of sticks for that matter - that bacon-wrapped organ mince isn't going to cook itself, you know.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I was so confused until I got to the sticks. And I was worried about opening the link because I thought it was AI spam 😆

[–] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

My comments may be useless nonsense, but I assure you they're all 100% human generated useless nonsense. I take pride in wasting everybody's bandwidth with good old fashioned manual shit-posting.

[–] tacofox@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

All things as they are meant to be ⚖️

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Just learn to speak russian cause russians can use every slur under the sky and they do in almost every sentance. Double standard.

[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you're American you probably need to learn Russian anyway these days. Might as well.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

On one hand it's rude not to learn the mother tongue of the country where you live. On the other hand not learning the mother tongue of the coutnry you've lived in all your life is peak russian culture.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The US religious fundamentalists have managed to impose their fucked up values on the world. Calling it "family values" was always a lie.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hurting someones feelings or being offended is the worst thing an american could ever go through. It absolutely tanks ad revenue.

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[–] muxika@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

Fediverse and DNS sinkholes FTW. Any way I can avoid becoming someone's money is nice.

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee 28 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I've been saying for years that the advertiser-friendly neo-puritanicalism that was infecting the left was a trojan horse for conservatism, and then here we are.

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[–] AVengefulAxolotl@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I dont understand either. Why the fuck cant you say suicide? When someone kills themselves, thats suicide, not 'unalive'.

Whats next, people cant even say 'unalive'?

[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

It's because the app reportedly limits and is more selective with videos that contain certain words. Death, rape, suicide, homicide, genocide, murder, etc. it can also pull your video. They don't do it because they are sparing anyone's feelings, their saying it that way to avoid their videos being taken down it hidden.

[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Relatively easy fix though. Get away from advertiser supported platforms and use community supported ones.

[–] green@feddit.nl 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Until the community supported platform becomes an advertiser supported one. Remember they said this same exact thing when moving from Facebook to Reddit.

Running is not going to save the online community. People have been running for the last 30 years, and it led us to some of the darkest times we've seen in 100 years. Instead we need to fight back and strategically retreat. Change the incentive structure - make advertisers absolutely miserable, and those who leech from advertisers should be similarly flogged.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Normalize supporting software and sites through donations rather than ads.

If your community dies since nobody supports it, it was shit anyway.

[–] green@feddit.nl 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

We agree here, but this will not necessarily stop the rot. Companies will just approach these communities and offer the leaders massive buyouts, and then flood it with ads (see Twitch).

Communities themselves need mechanisms to punish or vandalize advertisements.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

The mechanism for community to punish buyouts and vandalisms is to abandon the platform when it becomes bad. It used to be common but now people have too low standards.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

It used to be common but now people have too low standards.

It is more to do with being locked into a walled garden. If your community and family use Facebook, Reddit, Twitter, etc. then you either have to stay, or get left out.

In the new US Constitution we should include Data Portability as a right.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

This is true but we have been there before and have overcome it multiple times. I quit fb but I found it hard since the car community for which I manufacture parts for is mostly there.

When enough people leave and start using something else, soon their closer friends and family cave in and also make accounts there. Eventually the switchover will cascade. Happened with orkut, myspace, google +. Sure FB is almost too big to fail but the one we need to fix the issue by is the site that will supercede fb, in my opinion.

[–] green@feddit.nl 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I would like to avoid going on a rant, so I'll just say this - capitalism does not work. The phenomena you are describing (... now people have too low standards) is called "tyranny of the majority" and capitalism does not have an answer for this. Hence why we really need to figure something out.

As a side note, I do not think communism nor socialism are the answer either! Despite what many are led to believe, we live in primitive times and have not figured out a sustainable economic model.

[–] endeavor@sopuli.xyz 1 points 8 hours ago

I do not think any of them work but a hybrid system is good. Capitalism is like a fire, if you don't control it you will burn everything, as US has shown. Capitalism where there is space for innovation, entrepeneurship and bringing new and fresh innovations to the market and being rewarded for it while providing a safety net of free education(up to phd), healthcare, affordable housing and basic income is what I think is ideal. Since freedom doesn't mean freedom to do anything you desires, freedom means freedom to be able to fail without destroying your life. Here in europe we are pretty close to it and I will keep making political descisions to move the country towards it.

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[–] MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 123 points 2 days ago (21 children)

The term "unalive" is so cringey yet dystopian that I don't know whether to feel embarrassed or concerned when I hear it.

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[–] KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol 67 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I've been so deep into fediverse stuff that I forgot about that. I feel blessed

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Have never been on Tiktok. Have no regrets.

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