All addiction advertising should be illegal... Imagine struggling with withdrawal and giving up, and then cigarettes appear, bam!
Or alcohol - addicts actually need that shit to get through the day. The offramp for these things needs planning and consistency and this is just reinforcing the impulses
Sometimes merely purchasing things is an addiction, one that many members of my family have. Adtech feels like a weapon designed to exploit anxiety and dopamine pathways.
Adtech feels like a weapon designed to exploit anxiety and dopamine pathways.
It kind of is
Welcome.
I've been here a year and it's great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.
Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.
You're gonna like it here
It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one
You're wrong, and you should feel dumb and embarrassed for having a wrong opinion! Come on everyone, dogpile him! /s
We don't do that here, but fuck this guy amirite? Jk
I alway wonder if people browse the main reddit site and not their own feed. Reddit is shit but that's mostly just the look and feel.
Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don't get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn't the kind of shit people say it is.
I always used to use a 3PA that had no ads or recommendations, just my own curated sub list, and I honestly loved that. There were definitely echo chambers but things worked well for me as long as I stayed conscious to that. Then when the APIpocalypse happened I browsed reddit on the web and in their official app for the first time in almost ten years and just noped right the fuck off.
At one point in my feed it went:
Like, only 1/6 items were things I had actually asked to see. It was atrocious. Default reddit is absolutely cancer now, and I really struggle to empathise with people who are still using it vanilla without any extensions or domain changes.
Ironically the website in Firefox mobile and ublock origin works better than the mobile app. Still shit but better
I mean you've gone to great lengths to hide all the shit.
That doesn't mean it's not there.
The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely. Pretty much only go when looking for something specific even more anyway.
Hey addicts! Here's some inspiration
My great grandfather started smoking when he was very young. One day he got a call from his wife's doctor that she had asthma.
He quit smoking cold turkey half way through a cigarette and kept that half-empty pack of cigarettes with one half-smoked on his dresser for the rest of his life and never touched tobacco again.
You can stop drinking and smoking, do it!
Who knew it was so easy?
Step 1: stop doing it.
Step 2: Don't stop stop doing it
Ahhh the secret second step. Now it’s easy
Never stop never stopping
I don't recall ever seeing ads on reddit, and I know exactly why. On Mobile, RiF barely had ads, and desktop was all adblocked.
Though they were often the topic of crank posts, specifically the Christian ones around the atheism sub.
That's because you used a third party app. Reddit got rid of those a year ago.
And as soon as RiF announced it wasn't going to be able to continue, I moved here.
I see, a man of culture. Rest in Peace RIF!
You saw ads on reddit, but they were disguised as posts and comments from "real" users.
I was listening to this podcast that had an ad for a government system to help out people experiencing substance use (specifically alcohol) issues...directly followed by a government liquor store ad. In every single episode.
This subreddit was really helpful to me in Reddit. Here's the Lemmy version: https://lemmy.world/c/stopdrinking
Welcome. Let's make a recovery space here. Haven't seen much.
There already is a sub, at least to stop drinking.
Wait, they're really doing that?
Capitalism has no moral boundaries
"We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures!"
Steve has none, capitalism or otherwise. He's a total piece of shit.
Definitely not no, I was more just wondering whether this is actually something that's happening over on Reddit
I'm using the Boost app for Lemmy which has a one time fee to disable all ads. If you're sticking around it may be worth the investment if you're avoiding temptation. Stay sober my dude.
I’m using Voyager for Lemmy which doesn’t have ads or in app purchases.
Neither does Memmy for Lemmy. Plus it has a cute name
I'm using jerboa. Its free and open source. I have never seen an ad and never paid any money.
There are no ads on Lemmy anyway. Why are you being asked to pay for that?
Some app devs are setting up their own ad networks, injecting inline ads similar to how reddit operated. I know everyone needs to eat, but it's kinda lame when most lemmy instances the apps connect to are operated and funded purely by the generosity of random system admins.
I suspect most are using Google built in AD network for ease of use.
I don't mind using ads or payment to remove them for apps. Some of those Devs spend a lot of time working on them.
Well, sure Google ads or whatever. I just meant it's independent from the Lemmy platform and instance.
or any of the other lemmy apps that start without ads...
i still haven't heard a compelling reason to use that one other than "it's what I was already used to on Reddit"
Lots of customization options and yeah, it's what we know. I'm comfortable with how the app organizes stuff and am happy to support the dev.
Connect has been rock solid and ad free with no purchases required.
I like this meme. You did good.