For me I have every news and politics community blocked. I’m not sure how other people use this site, but I thought of all the things I’m interested in seeing and sought out those communities with the communities search and then subscribed to them. Sometimes I’ll check the other filters if I happen to run out of things to read.

Carefully curating a subscription list and sticking to the subscriptions filter has worked well for me.

She could have used that $12k as part of a down payment on her own place… what on earth is she thinking.

Oh curious. I don’t understand the use-case or how it fits in with the concept of PixelFed so I think I won’t use it. I’d like to see PixelFed get more popular, but if most of the posts are disappearing after 24 hours then it’s kind of like nobody is even using it. 🤨

Apparently most Americans. I can’t go anywhere in my tiny car without the vast majority of the parking being filled with behemoths like this thing.

Do you have an example where using keywords in quotes doesn’t work on Google? I think if the top results don’t contain both keywords then it doesn’t exist in its index.

What is a story exactly? A collection of related posts?

It seems to be this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Daniel_Shaver

My only regret is that I have boneitis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYiNeO_--y4

It still pains me to recall that one video of a man in a hotel on the floor in full compliance with everything the officer said, but the officer still shot him anyway for absolutely no cause.

Web pages of today have so much added on nonsense. It’s not necessarily data farming, but also the frameworks used to develop the website themselves. Modern websites are basically entire software running in the browser even when it is used to run a simple seemingly static page. The purpose of these frameworks is to make complex things more simple for developers to make, but then people end up using them in situations that might not call for it. I think there is a general belief that since computers keep getting more powerful that it is fine to keep making software bigger and less efficient.

Wow, taking someones personal property doesn’t even sound legal. That is messed up.

I feel this way about a lot of things. It seems like there are near infinite movie and tv show scripts to make things from, but if it doesn’t have some association to a thing people can recognize it is barely worth anything. Which is sad because there are likely countless amazing things sitting there unmade. Studios used to take more risk with low to mid budget stuff.

I think you are right with old listings and then maybe new people looking at old listings to make new listings without verifying.

Scalping I can understand completely, but this is a thing that is still made and available all over the place.

I give a simple personal opinion that ads are bad and people start losing their minds. You are arguing with my opinion like you can persuade me that ads are good as objective fact. You can view as many ads as you wish, but that isn’t going to change how I feel about it.

I don’t see the relevance to my opinion that ads are bad, but it is an opinion that Lemmy developers also share. Also for the 1000th time there is nothing wrong with selling software. I just disagree with ads and data harvesting.

It just happens to be a great demonstration that there can be no exceptions to eliminating ads. People seem to agree that ads are bad, but then have no principles or conviction when presented with the slightest inconvenience. “Guy just needs money” is not a good enough reason to change my opinion to ads are actually good. I’m not sorry. This has nothing to do with Sync or this person in particular.

It’s just the ad driven business model as a whole.

People are too addicted to the parasocial relationship of celebrities and the like to just follow normal users.

That isn’t a good justification to me. If it’s ok for you then it’s ok for the rest of the world too. You might believe ads aren’t bad and that’s fine. At least we can agree to disagree on that as our opinions aren’t reconcilable. If your app can’t exist without ads then I don’t believe it should exist at all. Or any other software in the world.