Great article, very enlightening for those of us who are too young to remember the early internet.
Reddit refugee #2643.
Great article, very enlightening for those of us who are too young to remember the early internet.
Not an excuse, but an explanation: ignorance.
Most people don’t know how ads or data collection works beyond the obvious uptick in a product after you search for it. They don’t know what impact it might have.
Full disclosure: I’m mostly in this camp. I only recently started using firefox over chrome, for example. I know that big tech collects obscene amounts of data, and monetizes it by targeted advertisements, but…beyond that, I don’t know what FAANG can do with the data collected on me. I only have a vague idea of what’s being collected.
Fundamental rights
Lmao you absolutely can.
Sure. In the same vein, I’ll go back to twitter if elon musk somehow restored it to the way it was before before his purchase.
Neither scenario will happen, of course. But if we’re talking about hypotheticals, I wouldn’t have an issue returning.
Lemmy already has jerboa.
I was homeschooled. Never went to public school. And my parents were christians, so naturally they bought christian apologetic textbooks.
One science (biology I think, high school level) textbook had most of a chapter discussing why the “theory of evolution” was “wrong”. Another book from the same publisher discussed at length why global warming (and the ozone-thinning effect of certain chemicals) was untrue.
My chemistry professor in college, wonderful man that he was, was the first person to explain divergent and convergent evolution to me.
The clean energy was the deciding factor for me, since virtually everything’s accessible from any instance. There were some bumps around some communities not being found - I assume from rapid growth caused by the reddit exodus - but things are working smoothly now.
Saturdays are for grocery shopping, extra long walks with the dog and my toddler, and various other chores: mowing the lawn, mopping the floors, laundry, etc.
Sundays are for baking, practicing piano and in theory for relaxing. In practice I have issues with just stopping and relaxing.
I spent it hunting down a reddit alternative and browsing on lemmy.
I’m not going back. Reddit will go downhill gradually as it tries to squeeze out value at the expense of the community, and that’s not something I’m going to support it any way.
I floss and brush religiously every night, have for many years. I had a cavity when I was young and the whole experience was terrible.
I still ended up with multiple cavities as an adult.