joshchandra

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[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 6 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

why are people still using facebook?

I run a free board game group on there called West Allis Board Games. Believe me, I would like to leave Meta and I offer everyone https://gamenight.host/@wa_bgn as a nonprofit alternative, but no one is on the latter and everyone is on the former. If you have any ideas on what I can do, I'm all ~~ears~~ eyes.

I asked the attendees about how they'd feel if we moved to a different platform and they immediately said they don't want to handle dozens of accounts scattered across different platforms. I also advertise the group on related subreddits and, most recently, the locally relevant /c/ equivalents here.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Ironically........ I myself found this through Reddit, no joke! But yeah, I hope to sway more people here.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 2 days ago

Wow, infinite aliases?! This is way better than Fx Relay, thanks!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I rather have them using AI to create it than having to go searching for real content.

A rebuttal to this that I've read is that the easy access may encourage people to dig into it and eventually want "the real thing"... but regardless, with it being FOSS, there's no easy way to stop it anyway... It's just a Pandora's box that we can never close.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Consider the decentralized family of https://trom.tf/ apps, such as https://search.trom.tf/ as a replacement (that's the only one I use of their stuff so far... but may poke around more later).

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

... until they keep having to dismiss people and go, "... huh." This is a marathon we're playing. You certainly don't have to use it, but I think the philosophy makes sense, especially given how AdNauseam doesn't click on acceptable ads that don't track you.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Dang, I had no idea of Portmaster! I wish I talked to you years ago and will check these out, thanks, and I fully agree with your stance as well.

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ha, this is as hilarious as it is creative. Interesting find; got any more?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago

Hmm, I thought I saw a similar picker existing in AdNauseam, but I may be wrong. I could definitely get on board with your approach; while Inspector can delete stuff, it doesn't remember them across page reloads or sessions, so this would be handy indeed!

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Oh, what can it do that AdNauseam and NoScript can't?

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Join me in leaving uBlock Origin for AdNauseam! I made a post about it that ended up gaining significant traction: https://midwest.social/post/25573927

[–] joshchandra@midwest.social 2 points 4 days ago (6 children)

omg, I'm using NoScript now and my eyes have been opened; I can't ever go back!! Thanks for the analogy; that was a much-needed, jolting wake-up call.

 

It garbles advertisers' data as a result, but you must disable uBlock Origin to run it; they can't work simultaneously. I recently moved to it and, so far, am never looking back!

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