Bloonface

I’ve always been underwhelmed with DuckDuckGo as a search engine, and for context on that remark I use Bing as my main search engine.

That statement is refreshingly sane. Really sick of the amount of heat over this situation and the lack of light.

Nobody. But they want to have Reddit coins to reward people who do things they like. So they have to pay for them to satisfy that want.

They might also pay for pizza, beer and cinema tickets too. Same difference.

Gotta say I have no love for the big leftist subs but that’s a pretty cheap shot.

Their choosing to purchase luxuries, in a world where luxuries must be paid for in a system they didn’t design, choose or want to live under, doesn’t negate that they are opposed to capitalism.

If you want to argue that they’re possibly a bit too sanguine about the prospect of their favourite luxuries existing under communism or whatever, fair enough. But that’s a separate argument from whether they’re stupid to pay money for stuff that makes them happy.

That furry spam was infuriating. Especially since on Kbin, you have to navigate to the specific domain itself using the Kbin interface, which means seeing more furry porn.

While it’s just annoying in the case of furries getting to shove their fetish in peoples’ faces, it poses a serious issue in case there’s a domain that starts posting less-than-legal porn or whatever - in some jurisdictions, even having that in your browser cache is a crime, so specifically having to look at all the content from such a domain is… sub-optimal.

I think that’s a little unfair, speaking as a fedi admin.

There are certainly instances that like to block any instance that doesn’t match its admins’ precise ideological priors (i.e. “X on Y server of 10,000 people is a ‘cop’ through some loose definition… COP!!! BAN!!! BAN THE WHOLE THING!!!” - has literally happened). I don’t agree with them or their methods.

But honestly they’re relatively small and few, and safely ignorable by the people on the big instances, who by and large will only block places that simply won’t moderate away their users’ hate speech or harassment.

Same way how on Reddit you can easily go a million years without having to interact with the weird uber-tankies or the racists, you can quite easily join Mastodon.social or any other reasonably well-moderated instance and let the whole fediblock discourse just pass you by.