Schwim Dandy

I love to get the important self-hosting and ad-blocking info from my favorite anti-semite.

It depends on your communities. There are plenty of proudly toxic people on the fediverse.

Now that the corpos and billionaires know that they can be openly and brazenly corrupt and greatly accelerate their schemes, we will never see a return to the politics of old where hiding it minimized profit regardless of who the next puppet figurehead is. You cannot un-ring the bell.

I’m not intimately familiar with the culture but as an American, it would be something that would make me uncomfortable.

Others carry thoughts they would never attach to their name anywhere.

As do I, I guess the difference being that sharing that thought without self-attribution would serve me no better than keeping it safe inside.

I can see an argument that the exit node is someone else’s computer. An an example of this risk, honeypot Tor exit nodes.

In this context, however, I would trust Mullvad’s exit nodes, I think. Well, do trust them, since I use them, just not for anything that would get me in hot water.

Well, as they say, it takes all kinds but I wouldn’t want to be on either end of an anonymous confession of any magnitude.

I neither benefit from yelling my secrets into the void or reading someone else’s.

I think most people that think they were taught this in school actually just heard it a lot from random friends and acquaintances, as I did. I heard this all the time but never from a scholarly authority.

YMMV, of course.

Might it be related to the chewing of a tougher food? My tinnitus gets worse sometimes when my TMJ is acting up.

I remember these signs when I was a kid in south FL in the 70s. It was popular to keep the beachgoers out, I don’t know if it was to keep the company out of hot water should something happen to the shirtless or shoeless customer while they’re in the store or whether it was just a choice in who to serve.

As for your question about pants: Since the “No shirt…” phrase isn’t there to make something legally binding but rather a notice to people that this particular business is exercising their right to not serve you, no, you likely won’t get served without pants.

What a great cover. I’d never heard of them but had no choice but to sub to their channel when I saw their TOOL - Jambi cover .

local dial-up BBSs sharing gif and wav clips and chatting about anything that you felt like at the moment

AOL chatrooms

free hosted forums on Anglefire and Geocities

Larger forums(SA, Fark, etc)

FB/instagram

Lemmy/Piefed

I think that would be my path as it relates to communities where I actually ended up having a social community involved. I would say that it also is a direct increase in toxicity as it works downward. I find Lemmy/Piefed just as toxic as any other platform but the lack of a forced algorithm lets me basically mute all of the negative content sources and it’s niche enough that you can actually mute the negative influence, which makes for a pleasant experience.

I imagine the fact that they allow the embedding of videos on other sites make it hard to restrict the playback to that degree. There seems to be a tipping point at which they’ll work on breaking something, more than likely based on it’s popularity When enough 3rd party frontends figured out background playback, they took the time to develop a way to break it. I think the same will happen when they feel too many people are circumventing their data scraping, ads or algorithms. They’ll finally go all in but it’s clear that they don’t want to do that just yet.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of dickbags.

Does this title really require the story behind it?

I have not met a too-big open world as of yet.

And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network.

Do you have any that you find useful? I haven’t used one in decades.

commenting on random YouTube videos

That’s definitely not new. Comment spam has existed as long as comments have.

Stealing content is also as old as the internet. It would make sense they would use their own music if that’s what they were selling. People that sell affiliate links to stuff paste their logo and domain on the lower or upper part of stolen reels.

I don’t discover music on Youtube so I can’t speak to it’s rise in popularity but things like this get adopted widely when it’s proven to work.

Filter your content to get the vibe you want.

Blocking the porn and impotently hostile makes it quite the chill platform.

You could make a sandwich in your lap and it wouldn’t be as distracting as scrolling social media on your phone.