Unpopular opinion: I'm tired of hearing the smug 'hurr ur cuntry sucks lol' shit, myself.
I mean, you see the article this week where poor children were getting scurvy and gettting seriously ill?
Yeah, that was France, not Kentucky.
You know, the same country Le Pen has a really legitimate chance of heading the next government of, too.
Shit's fucked everywhere, so maybe a little introspection might be worth considering on the part of some of the 'europe good, amerikkka bad' crowd?
I'd argue perhaps the opposite: if you want full moderation and admin freedom, running it on your own instance is the only way to do it.
If you run it on someone else's server, you're subject to someone else's rules and whims.
Granted, I have zero reason to think the admins of any of those listed instances would do anything objectionable, but that's today: who knows what happens six months or a year or two years from now.
Though, as soon as you start adding stuff to your personal instance, you're biting off more maintenance and babysitting since you assumably want your stuff to be up 100% of the time to serve your communities, so that's certainly something to consider.
They're offering to pay you to watch ads, same as what Brave does.
You're going to get people who fall for the "free money" aspect, same as always.
(Also replacing a site's ads with their ads is exactly the same shit Honey is doing, so it's nice to see that the founder has a single idea and is going to keep going after it.)
Jill Stein has had dinner with Putin, so yeah, just a wee bit.
The biggest thing I've started not doing (stopped doing? whatever) that's helped me is spending any time using search engines to find things.
If I'm looking for something I try to find some sort of forum, or irc channel, or discord group, usenet group, or message echo or whatever and just ask what's (probably) still an actual person.
Maybe google would be faster but holy crap has my quality of shit-i've-found online gone way the hell up once I stopped asking a computer to send me to something obscure or old or odd, because every search engine has basically decided to go all slop, all the time now.
The only drawback is if I'm asking someone a question about OS/2 on an echo, it might take me a couple of days until some greybeard comes back with an answer, but so far it's been 100% accurate shit, rather than either nothing useful, or incorrect slop.
It also fixes that weird thing where the internet feels like nothing but bots and AI slop generators, because you're in a situation where you can almost 100% be certain the person you're talking to is still actually a human and it also leads to lovely conversations about other shit, and really brings back the feel of the "old" internet before it got infested with big tech who capitalism-ed it into a pile of garbage.
It's almost stopped me buying ANY games, at all.
At some point within a year or few of a release the odds of anything I find interesting showing up for free on epic is damn near 100%.
It's the ultimate patient gamers bit: wait 2 or 3 years and that game you want will be $0.
(It's why my epic library is now bigger than my steam library, despite spending $0.)
I was excited until the article clearly outlined that it was a multiplayer, online-only game.
Alas.
Working rootkit anti-cheat, so I can dump Windows.
I'd argue the problem is that Hollywood has lost the ability to make cheap movies, and thus if it doesn't gross a billion dollars, it's a flop.
A stupid example, I'll admit, but I think most people will agree was good: The Breakfast Club. It had a $1 million budget, which isn't shit even adjusted for inflation (about $3 million).
Maybe they should find people who can make a movie for less than a hundred million and see if they come up with any winners?
That's probably true, though I'm not sure who has ever actually made a legitimate determination since you'd have to remove the non-humans from the numbers first and, well, Reddit isn't going to tank their MAU numbers by ever releasing that kind of stat.
It's also not helped once you hit a certain size and the nature of scale takes over and the level of toxicity goes up: even in small groups, when a new person shows up and asks the same question for the 20th time, they start taking shit for it. If you're in a BIG group, it turns into a giant dogpile, and people stop asking questions because who the hell likes that kind of response, so you end up with a lot of people who are subscribed to something, but none of whom actually contribute at all.
It sounds like British politicians are the ones deciding harmful content, no?
So this will probably go exactly how you're expecting, in the long term.
The best 1 month anniversary is doing the same thing when you first met.