It literally doesn’t matter if people know or not. As long as things run smoothly, it’s fine.

It’s an imperfect comparison because sex workers sell their body and take on risks that way. Drug dealers sell a product and aren’t necessarily endangering themselves in the same way.

Dude. Have you been to taco bell? You can get a well over 2000 calorie meal for like $15

Welcome to lemmy. I hate big corporations but some of the people on this site will blame amazon when they stub their toe.

I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins!

They were probably just out and too busy to restock or something. It happens. Never been to a fast food place where they don’t provide napkins and I steal napkins from the taco bell I live near regularly. What a weird overreaction.

This meme will now be my desktop image.

Aero is the name of the windows UI design, but it’s also a major defining factor of the wider frutiger aero aesthetic that was prevalent in loads of other tech and marketing at the time. I recommend reading the link you sent because it just backs up what I said.

Fruitigo ero is more about the glossy UI design of the windows vista/7 era than those photographs.

I really, really suspect that the big Lemmy instances are being run by Reddit admins or spooks or some-such. They’re moderating their instances in the exact same way Reddit did minus the profiteering. The censorship is the exact same.

It’s just the reality of online content moderation. The good mods/admins are people who are passionate about a topic and want to provide a space for discussion and community building. When it comes to the “power mods” or whatever, like those we saw on reddit who moderated 100+ subs, they’re just in it to stroke their own egos.

I think the one before the current one is my favorite. I feel like the current one is a bit blocky while the previous has a little more detail but still looks good when shrunk down. I don’t hate the current one, though.

Yeah it’s honestly insane. Getting to the point where I think I’m just going to filter out the technology and politics communities despite being interested in the content and in some of the discussions. There are so many over the top toxic people on lemmy. In one of the youtube adblocking threads, there was a guy who said something along the lines of “honestly it’s worth it for me to have youtube premium” and he was downvoted and called a paid google employee. Like it’s so absurd. You can’t say anything that goes against the circlejerk without being dogpiled on. It’s behavior that’s far worse and more consistently worse than anything I’ve ever seen on reddit. It’s not the first time I’ve seen stuff like that. I remember all the backlash when sync came out. I like the app and the dev so I paid for it but all these FOSS bros were acting like the dev is the second coming of Hitler for daring to make money for his work. It’s exhausting. I hate ads and subscriptions but I need to live my life at some point and just begrudgingly accept them. I can’t spend all day seething about it like a lot of people on lemmy do. Again, it’s just kind of exhausting reading a lot of threads now. I thought I was going crazy but it’s nice to see that other people have similar observations.

Just tried and it said I needed a payment method from the country.

I’m sure he’s changed a lot since then lol

The vast majority of content uploaded is never going to make them any money. They get free content but hosting it is incredibly expensive.

He said that electing Trump would bring the downfall of the GOP so of course he’s bipartisan/s

Nate Bargatze had a pretty good joke about the same premise:

https://youtu.be/QXy3uII-xn0

Wikipedia has a more specific definition in the first paragraph:

Astroturfing is the practice of hiding the sponsors of a message or organization (e.g., political, advertising, religious, or public relations) to make it appear as though it originates from, and is supported by, grassroots participants. It is a practice intended to give the statements or organizations credibility by withholding information about the source’s financial backers.

I think it’s pretty hard to argue that labor unions can be astroturfing. It’s not like they have a lot of wealthy donors who are secretly trying to push narratives to encourage workers organizing.

Astroturfing is:

The disguising of an orchestrated campaign as a “grass-roots” event

There’s still an enormous amount of great content on youtube. You don’t need to watch the commercial shit.

It’s still crazy to think just how quickly lemmy grew and how recently still. Software development takes a lot of time but it’s nice to know that the devs are chipping away at some of these major issues.