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My general guideline is to ignore what I don’t like, downvote what I find harmful. Of course, the first one is emotionally motivated, while the second is rationally so; and therefore doing this requires a conscious choice. So, when I’m too tired, I might fail at doing this. But that’s the intent anyway.

Pretty much anything with “automagic” properties, anything based on proprietary “cloud”, or anything so big I couldn’t possibly audit it (not saying I audit everything I use, I just want the ability). Oh, and also, products claiming to be “security oriented” when they are, in fact, not.

I sometimes make exceptions for “least terrible in class” when I absolutely have to use a given software or be irremediably cut off from a big part of society, like with AOSP and Signal. But those exceptions are few and far between, so there isn’t a lot of popular software I use.

Also got ADHD and the way I managed enjoying running was listening to music (for the rhythm) and “zoning out” (aka meditating). What also works out is focusing on an idea you wanna think about, but you run (pun intended) the risk of getting to interesting findings and needing to note them ASAP…

The key difference between “have you brought what you bought” vs “have you bought what you brought”. 😉

Most intelligent comment of the thread. The “You must spend the money. You cannot give it to someone to hold on to it for you for a while” prevents you from giving the money away to get it back. It doesn’t prevent you from spending the money in a way where you still have (indirect) control of it. One could use a preexisting company or nonprofit to make a donation to, and I’m pretty sure a private sale of that order still needs to be declared, and a possibly hefty tax will incurr; but if the theoretical deal doesn’t require sales to be “official”, that’s best way to keep all the cash.

It’s 5 am on a Sunday, in the country side, by the ocean, and hundreds of km away from any big city. The best I could do would be to walk to the local real estate guy, who I know a little, go ham on his door to wake him up, and offer him all the money for a later deal. I guess that for 300k he would accept to immediately sign an agreement to proceed, next week, on a deal for one of the properties he has listed, using part of that money.

Exactly my approach. Plus, I can’t, for the life of me, wrap my head around why porn is such an ever present concern, when so many other things, arguably as harmful, or IMHO more so, are apparently “totally okay”.

Yes, sure, porn addiction can be a problem, but I feel that this topic is actually a common fetish of certain people, who will happily ignore the neurological consequences of OTHER types of harmful content and behavior: YouTube autoplay, the constant stream of ads aimed at making us consume every single last bit of resource on the planet for 10 people’s net worth, the desensitization to violence, especially against beings different to us (different skin color, beliefs, species, etc)…

Yeah, but no. None of those things are a problem. Just PoOoOoOoRnNn… Will someone please think of the children?? And then what? Make a mandatory retinal scan before you can move a muscle? We wouldn’t want people to actually get addicted to the only last good thing they have in their life, right? All this, because we achieved making a truly ground breaking rotten society, and people’s “porn addiction” says more about the extent of their despair than anything else, really…

I can’t wait for online services to “guess” my age by spamming requests with minimum ages until they narrow it down to the day… Hopefully this will be limited to the year, but still…

Yeah. The “software” being totally in the position of linking you, the person, with porn, the content, and linking that. Recording that. Permanently. I see no difference between using your actual ID and your proposal.

The actual problem with using your ID (or your magical solution, it’s all the same) to identify for porn, is that you cannot tell when the government will rule that porn is unlawful, effective retroactively, with you having to bear the punishment, out of nowhere.

You (OP) being German, I think you should be more sensitive to that. It’s not like you didn’t have history lessons about the last time this kinda thing happened… Oder?

And as for kids… I put protections in place (forcing safe search via DNS, blackholing certain hosts, etc) for my kids, this isn’t actually so hard to do. And quite effective. The day they can bypass that, they’ll sure be old enough for porn, or even the much more harmful content the internet has to “offer”…

I don’t pronounce it, I try and avoid talking to myself…

Now the question remains: will you pronounce the “Bi” of “Bike” like “Be” or “By”? :D

I agree with all of this, except the first point, and that’s the reason I’m leaving a comment rather than a vote:

I’m annoyed at calling people who dislike an app and choose another website “refugees”

“Refugees” aren’t people who “do not like the app”. I agree that the term is poorly chosen, and offensive to actual refugees who had to leave their lives, home, and a good part of their identity behind, because of a traumatic, catastrophic event; and that “explat” (for “ex-platform”, a play on words with “expatriates”) would be a more fitting term, but the “explat” actually came over because they have never liked the app, except now, it is forced onto them. Moving over isn’t a choice for many, the choice is actually between “not using any reddit-like service at all anymore” or “using what exists aside from reddit”. And in that context, I think you can clearly see why the “refugee” term came to mind (of privileged people who failed to see the humanitarian implications and the belittling of dramatic experiences and suffering of others).

You are correct in that people moving over from Reddit are accustomed to using the platform as an entertainment provider and not as an RSS aggregator. Memes are entertaining to most, so you can expect them to rise naturally. Reddit uses that specifically to attract/retain people, and most of us have gotten used to it over the years; I personally enjoy it, even.

However, this doesn’t mean you can’t use Lemmy as an RSS aggregator anymore. But we would need extra features for that, such as tags, so you can filter content out based on them. If tags existed, you could trivially filter the “meme” tag out, and it would then be up to moderators (and their bots, and the users, to report content) to make people in a community actually tag their content properly.