• @flambonkscious@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    78•1 year ago

    All addiction advertising should be illegal… Imagine struggling with withdrawal and giving up, and then cigarettes appear, bam!

    Or alcohol - addicts actually need that shit to get through the day. The offramp for these things needs planning and consistency and this is just reinforcing the impulses

  • Track_ShovelEnglish
    50•1 year ago

    Welcome.

    I’ve been here a year and it’s great. Prior to leaving Reddit, I was really disenfranchised with their community. Everyone on Reddit are insanely negative, pedantic fuck weasels. Subs were rife with bots that posted the same banal content, and turned into giant echo chambers. It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one.

    Lemmy is smaller, but our content is great and our communities are very friendly. You get to be you without much worry of some dickcheese jumping down your throat.

    You’re gonna like it here

    • @Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
      24•1 year ago

      It was near impossible to have an opinion contrary to the popular one

      You’re wrong, and you should feel dumb and embarrassed for having a wrong opinion! Come on everyone, dogpile him! /s

    • @LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml
      4•1 year ago

      I alway wonder if people browse the main reddit site and not their own feed. Reddit is shit but that’s mostly just the look and feel.

      • @frostysauce@lemmy.world
        3•1 year ago

        Yeah, browsing my own curated subs on old.reddit with RES and uBlock Origin is nowhere near as bad as people are making reddit out to be. Don’t get me wrong, reddit IS shit, but my experience isn’t the kind of shit people say it is.

        • @Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4•1 year ago

          I mean you’ve gone to great lengths to hide all the shit.

          That doesn’t mean it’s not there.

          The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely. Pretty much only go when looking for something specific even more anyway.

          • @frostysauce@lemmy.world
            3•1 year ago

            The day they finally kill old.reddit is the day I give it up completely.

            Same here, for sure. I do lemmy on my phone and reddit on my laptop, I’ll just switch to lemmy on both when that day comes.

  • @garbagebagel@lemmy.world
    13•1 year ago

    I was listening to this podcast that had an ad for a government system to help out people experiencing substance use (specifically alcohol) issues…directly followed by a government liquor store ad. In every single episode.

  • Mister Neon
    8•1 year ago

    I’m using the Boost app for Lemmy which has a one time fee to disable all ads. If you’re sticking around it may be worth the investment if you’re avoiding temptation. Stay sober my dude.

      • @CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
        11•1 year ago

        Some app devs are setting up their own ad networks, injecting inline ads similar to how reddit operated. I know everyone needs to eat, but it’s kinda lame when most lemmy instances the apps connect to are operated and funded purely by the generosity of random system admins.

        • @Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          I suspect most are using Google built in AD network for ease of use.

          I don’t mind using ads or payment to remove them for apps. Some of those Devs spend a lot of time working on them.

    • @thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world
      5•1 year ago

      or any of the other lemmy apps that start without ads…

      i still haven’t heard a compelling reason to use that one other than “it’s what I was already used to on Reddit”

      • Dale'sDeadBug
        8•1 year ago

        Lots of customization options and yeah, it’s what we know. I’m comfortable with how the app organizes stuff and am happy to support the dev.