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  • Is YouTube messing with Ublock Users Again?

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  • Not completely sure, but even as a paid YouTube Premium subscriber, when I open the website on my laptop (Debian 13, Firefox ESR and uBlock) it consistently takes anywhere from 10-20 seconds to load the page even on my 1gbps home internet while literally every other website loads pretty much instantly. I've been wondering the same thing as you tbh.

  • Charlie Kirk's assassin may have been the only person to substantively change Charlie Kirk's mind on any issue

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  • What's your greatest "gaming high" you've been chasing ever since? Please take care not to spoil anything, if you are going to be story-specific.

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  • The absolute peak of gaming for me was the first time I got stoned out of my mind and played Minecraft. Probably like... circa 2012. I've never been able to get back to that place ever since lmao the colors were so vibrant, each pixel was absolutely perfectly placed. The light grey ui elements in your inventory... everything just tied together so perfect. It was like seeing a new color for the first time, but then every time after that is just, eh...

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • I've been really curious about Ghost lately! I set it up in a container on pikapods not too long ago but I ended up staying on Micro.blog. Something I really liked that I had no idea about beforehand was that they have their own little Discover feed over there right? It felt too serious for me when I mostly run an old school link/microblog kinda blog and it seems SO optimized for mailing lists and subscribers

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • Neocities isn't a bad option tbh. I haven't used it in a minute but if you're thinking about neocities I really really liked bearblog.dev too!

  • The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08]

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  • That's awesome! I'm in Ohio and he's not coming anywhere near here on the tour lol but I did order the hardcover copy. I'm trying to hold off on the audiobook now so I can finish it as the actual book.

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • Hell yeah! I've been blogging for a couple years but I just use Micro.blog. I'd like to switch to something completely self hosted one of these days though.

  • Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

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  • she's SO BRAVE 🙄

  • The Web is Going to Die

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  • I see a lot of potential for it to push people back to the small web too. Lots of people becoming interested in personal blogs lately, decentralized social media, the whole indie web movement, etc.

  • The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08]

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  • Definitely informative and depressing. Honestly kinda just confirming what a lot of people have suspected all along I think; everything's a monopoly, companies are good until they lock enough people into their platform and then they're too big to care. Lots of really good examples and depressing fun facts weaved into it lol. One thing that makes it so interesting to me is that over the last couple of decades we've all been watching the enshittification of everything in real time. This book makes sense of it. That said, idk what his solutions are 100% but I gotta believe he offers some kind of clarity or way forward by the time I finish it. I have a little ways to go still.

  • The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow [1:49:08]

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  • I'm about halfway through the book and it's so good!

  • how did you make the switch from reddit to lemmy.. i'm trying to myself but struggling to ngl

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  • I'm making the same transition kinda. I moved from Digg to Reddit over ten years ago. I was on Lemmy for a while more recently and then Digg rose from the ashes a couple months ago, but I'm realizing I like Lemmy/Piefed much more. I already had a trial run on breaking my social media habits when I left twitter though. I think a big part of it is realizing you don't need a constantly updated firehose of useless information lol I'm still very online but probably like half of what I was when I was using Reddit and twitter. Now I have a blog, read a lot of RSS for that breaking, early news and I go to Lemmy for news with social commentary from normal people who aren't influencers. I comment more here too because I'm not competing with millions of people to have an edgy top rated comment. I think the biggest thing is embracing smaller communities and going from there.

  • [Mastodon] Our ideas about Packs

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  • I ended up getting TONS of followers from starter packs on Bluesky, so I followed a lot of them back. What I ended up with was a massive circle of people I have nothing in common with other than some shitposts here and there. And then I deleted my Bluesky a couple months later anyway lol I don't know where I'm going with this. I guess that it kind of made everything a mess.

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    Ad companies should just cut out the middle man and pay me to watch their ads

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  • Closest I ever came was trying brave browser for a couple months a few years ago and I made a cool $0.83 in digital Monopoly money 💅

  • Why do companies always need to grow?

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  • I hate it. It even bleeds over into performance reviews. Like you'll never get a perfect score no matter how hard you work because you always have to be improving on something. It's supposed to be the sure fire sign of "success" but all it does is create impossible goals and bring everyone down.

  • In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

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  • I love it! Even the built in CSS and JavaScript customization goes a long way. I'm not creative enough to figure out anything crazy with Greasemonkey lol

  • In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information

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  • I love RSS! For the longest time I used Miniflux, and I still have an instance running, but lately I've just been using the Unread app on iOS. That's one of the many great things about RSS: you're not tied down to any specific app or platform, you can pack up and take your feeds wherever you want if you wanna try something different.

  • Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel

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  • That's how I feel about it too. Literally nothing I wanted to watch over there anyway. I'm not missing anything.

  • Disney reportedly lost 1.7 million paid subscribers in the week after suspending Kimmel

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  • Almost everyone I know who cancelled their subscription is happily renewing it now that Kimmel is back on the air. I'm sticking with donating to PBS every month instead.

  • QAnon shaman sues Trump for $40 trillion and targets Musk, T-Mobile and Warner Bros in rambling lawsuit | The Independent

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  • The good thing about the radical right being entirely made up of dipshits is that there will be plenty more infighting to come 🍿