

/me hangs head in shame
Let go and let entropy. 🌌
/me hangs head in shame
r/outside
Why? Because I’ve now fooled you and don’t have to be confined to a game cartridge. Muahahahaha.
(Side note: It’s been a long time since I’ve been on reddit. I miss that community.)
maniacal laugh
I have filters for Trump and Elon and others myself. It seems to be only for the post title because I can still see posts like this. Which I’m okay with by the way. I just don’t need all the additional articles specifically featuring them.
I seem to have a visceral reaction to advertisements. It’s very physical.
The short answer is that the Google Play version won’t actually block anything because it breaks their terms of service. So that version just tells you how many trackers and what the trackers are. I still use some of those apps and even respect them (e.g. AP News, AccuWeather), but it completely boggles my mind how they’ve loaded so many trackers into their applications… 🫤
Longer answer: To actually block trackers and ads, you need to use a third party source to download the app so that it’s fully functional. By providing the app that way, they don’t have to abide by Google Plays rules.
The link above is for the F-Droid “app store” version, which is one of the more well-known “stores.” I highly recommend F-Droid. They host free and open source (FOSS) applications. For most everything you use, there is a FOSS alternative which will be ad and tracker free.
Want a simple ad-free calculator, go there. Want to watch YouTube ad free, go there. Want to download an ad free Lemmy client, go there. Etc etc.
Hurrah for high quality FOSS software!
Yep. It’s becoming more and more common for folks to know that they can do it, but it certainly isn’t ubiquitous. It wasn’t that long ago when I caught my partner listening to music on YouTube with all the ads and I blew their mind away by installing NewPipe. They just had no idea.
Yep, that can work per device or per network. I’m a big fan of Tracker Control because it’s going to work on any network. It’s also highly customizable.
Fortunately, you can block all those ads on Android. Check out Tracker Control: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.kollnig.missioncontrol.fdroid
Because I’m not privileged enough to afford it without.
That’s absolutely unbelievable to me. I block ads on everything. I just can’t handle it. For the few ad-based services that I pay for, I mute it for every commercial. Seriously, I just can’t handle it.
But… clearly tons and tons and tons and tons and tons of people do watch them… which makes a massively lucrative business. I’ll just never understand it.
When I need something, I look it up and get it. If i don’t need something, I don’t want to hear about it in any way, shape, or form.
Ugh.
10 billion. 😖
I’ve no idea what those emojis represent…
That said, if you wish to be understood, then you might consider expressing yourself with language that’s clearly understood.
Emojis in professional emails are very uncommon. Consider explaining how you feel with words instead. If chatting, then consider image emojis or only the most commonly understood simple text emojis. Uncommon or more recently developed emojis are more likely to be misunderstood and/or considered immature.
I really really really don’t like where this is heading. Hell, I don’t like like where it already is. 😖
I’m not sure your comment accurately or fairly represents things.
Narcissism is genuine psychological disorder. Your comment doesn’t explain how he would be one of “the most narcissistic people.”
However, you genuinely made me curious about how many people have been contributing and by how much, so I looked it up on GitHub as you mentioned. There have been 159 contributors. The second most being 210 commits. Dan is the number one contributor at over 10,000 commits!
I can’t know his motivations, only what he shares publicly. I don’t follow PixelFed development closely. I don’t know why he’s trying to do so much at once. And I honestly thought Sup was short for Whatsup.
What I do know is what it’s like to slave for thousands of hours, writing millions of lines of code, trying to manage multiple projects with numerous hands in it, ridiculous deadlines, and with customers and users quick to criticize without truly understanding everything entailed in such projects.
Perhaps I’m honestly ignorant and he really is someone to loath. So far though, PixelFed has been a gem that connects me with a lot of beauty. I personally know loathsome humans. There’s plenty more in the news daily.
This Forbes article though? It’s doing something really good for the Fediverse. It’s highlighting the need for funding projects like these. And, yeah, it mentions Dan because he’s the one who got these projects of the ground and has done nearly all the bleeding and sweating for it.
I get the concerns and fears, but I’m not sure there is reason think we’re there yet.
I guess I’m just grateful.
Sure, but online, in person, a work gathering, the park, a web forum, or etc.
Just seems like an intense response. That tells me that it’s in a context where people are normally anonymous or maybe it’s a public internet setting (e.g. like here)… or… they might have some serious distrust issues… 😬
It’s important to be aware of what happens and to act when and how you feel led.
However, caring for your mental health is most important. Even on this platform I have a filter on for a single word – Trump. For how long, I don’t know. I still get US news, but I just needed to decrease it for a time in relation to that man.
Does this happen to you often?
Seems like context would be helpful. I’m not sure I’ve personally been responded to this way when trying to get to know someone. But I imagine in certain situations, it might be more likely. Maybe online vs in person?
The response does seem say something though. Uncertainty. Distrust. Maybe more.
(self censored)
Well… its eye fell out. And that didn’t seem normal.