#internet environment

[historicalhiccups]

If corporations, websites, et al, really want to guilt trip netziens so badly for using adblocks then perhaps they first should 1. Ensure that ads do not impact the functionality of their website 2. Ensure that ads don't take over the website's user experience 3. MAKE SURE THAT THE ADS THEY PERMIT AREN'T PREDATORY, ABUSIVE, TRIGGERING, EXPLOITATIVE, OR OTHERWISE HARMFUL.

Too many ads are actively harming those exposed to them.

Moderate the ads you permit, first, to make it clear you aren't an amoral, money grubbing, blood-thirsty capitalist leech and then we'll talk.

(we will not be speaking.)

web 2.0 companies that try to frame people using adblockers as greedy freedloaders always conveniently turn their heads when those same “greedy freeloaders” tell them that advertisers are paying to put malicious and predatory ads on their playforms and adblock users are, by in large, using adblockers to protect themselves

[spiderthread]

[batarangsoundsdumb]

there's two wolves inside of you; chronic oversharer vs still scared of strangers on the internet

[six-of-cringe]

tumblr is to moral ocd what tiktok is to adhd and post

[maeamian]

Actually research skills are hard to learn especially unsupervised so maybe telling people to just "Go figure it out" especially if you already know they've been failed academically in other ways, might actually be a great way to just send them to a PragerU video on the topic.

[sezija]

Pictures of Alcor

[giraffetummy]

I know why people think sfw v/ore isn't a thing. I get it. Does it make me Woefully sad? Also yes. But I Get it.

I want to make sure people know it's like cuddling. Some people get horny when they cuddle, and some just feel safe and happy. It fits the term 'extreme cuddling' pretty well - it really depends on the person. I, personally, am both. It depends on my mental state.

But outright denying the existence of sfw vore is really annoying - do u know what it's like to have someone say what you're doing is 100% sexual, no matter what *you* think, say or feel? It's invasive and disrespectful for literally anything, including vore.

Be civil. Be kind. Respect other people's feelings and boundaries.

Please only interact if you're 18+ and your blog is sfw. Thank you.

[thirrith]

i finally finally read this after bookmarking it for so many years

[coolclipartfree]

"Cactus Sky"

[icewindandboringhorror]

sneeping with his legs up over his head for some reason... weird boye

[communistkenobi]

I’ve been in university buildings that are so old and full of stone that it’s basically impossible to get wi-fi reception unless you’re in the same room as the router, and conversely university buildings that are so new that the need for uninterrupted connection to wifi is built into the internal layout, and it just makes me think that like the physical way that buildings are laid out and the materials they’re built with are going to be permanently different now to accommodate uninterrupted access to the internet, which is an architectural consideration that, aside from the last 30ish years, has never existed in human history

[mister-warmth]

Me with the moots whenever I yap about a movie I just watched and they join in to talk about it ^^

[just-my-insufferable-existance]

The Internet was once a great source of information, now

- It's cluttered with AI regurgitation. (This is particularly infuriating to me. If anyone is interested, I could make a post about my thoughts.)

- Old sites are dead and gone.

- Reddit destroyed itself. (I can go on a rant about this too.)

- Too much marketing bullshit.

- Ads! Ads! Ads! Ads! Ads!

- Stupid paywalls.

- Search engines suck at getting you what you want. SEO is a cancer.

- People trying to make a quick buck. I don't mind paying for some things, I'm talking about the 0 effort get-rich-quick crap.

- Propaganda, psyops, scammers, etc.

See enshitification and dead internet theory.

It's hard to filter all this crap out! It's particularly worse for people with conditions like ADHD, Depression, Autism, etc.

It also makes it harder for me to do my job. Sometimes I need specific, slightly in depth information. Due to SEO, I get surface level AI regurgitated crap. Multiple websites, all the same. They also come with a torrent of adverts. It's a user hostile experience. (Maybe I could write my own, better search engine. One that might allow me to blacklist and greenlist certain websites for certain searches. Or one that detects AI generated content and filters. Actually, a browser extension that detects AI generated content might be pretty helpful.)

I think I've run into webpages that just have AI generated recipes. It's awful. I'm at the point where I just want to use physical cookbooks. Those also don't have a novel about some irrelevant backstory and 69,000,000 ads obscuring the recipe. (Now that I think of it, maybe it would be useful to write an app that can convert a physical recipe into a digital one ...)

I don't know what I want, what really needs to change, or how to fix things. All I know is that I am passionately upset.

[sukimas]

the fact that the thing i’m most dysphoric about is my height is really unfortunate. in a world where it was not hilariously likely to go pear-shaped i would be one of the guys getting the surgery where they break your legs to grow them back longer

[arttsuka]

Me: I have to stop spending money buying useless things

Also me:

[privatejoker]

after years on this website i no longer feel capable of safely expressing thoughts or opinions even in my day to day life. the general capacity for coping with difference or light friction on here is completely diminished. bunch of weird moral sadists. it will not save you