I, for one, welcome our new toilet-watching overlords

I prefer my porn to be 100% industry-exploited humans

Honest question, why isn't your clubhouse over at lemmygrad enough?

1. They basically say they are, and also run explicitly tankie instance lemmygrad.ml
2. Look at the modlog for lemmy.ml. Among other things, anytime someone has an opinion about China who isn't Chinese it's "Orientalism"

Damn they really hate their users

Not an advertiser but they generally know % of views ("impressions") to clicks (called click through rate) and percentage of clicks that turn into sales (called conversion rate).

For that reason, I don't think they're trying to get rid of human users completely, just the "troublemakers".

I think they want to lead the "silent majority" users into a bot advertorial content hellscape where they control all the levers of power and everything is for sale.

The curse of the zombie hot posts strikes again!

Reported. This sub isn't allowed to give feels (/s)

If we comment enough, we could get this zombie thread stuck in the 'Active' feed

Are you seriously arguing that slavery wasn't profitable for plantation owners?

Aside from being dangerously close to "well actually we were doing the slaves a favor!", that argument is absolutely absurd.

Do you really think that they couldn't get more economic value out of enslaved labor than they put in in shitty food and housing? By that logic, the poor poor plantation owners could just barely scrape by on a subsistence income. Does that match up with the lavish estates that we see in the south to this day?

Aside from being illogical it's also ahistorical - milenia ago the Romans had massive slave-based plantations generating obscene wealth.

Lemmy's default sort is "Active" - which I believe is "most recent comment activity"

The classic reddit experience is most like the "Hot" sort option.

Lemmy's other weird default is the "feed" which can be all, local, and following. Lemmy defaults to "local", which is probably not what you want (chronological feed of posts on your home server)

Also highly recommend "blocking" communities if you don't want to see their content. (Mostly important if you browse the "All" or "local" feeds)

Homie I'm sorry that happened.

You might want to do some research on:

• verbal abuse
• narcissistic parent
• low self esteem

This is what I wish someone else told me.

Good luck on your journey