A new study found that, on TikTok and Elon Musk's Twitter, nearly 3/4 of all partisan content being pushed algorithmically to German users favored the party best known for its ties to neo-Nazis.
Wtf? How are there still people using this kinda garbage app? Lemmy and the fediverse is free, run and developed by volunteers. There are plenty of open source clients to choose from. Why in the fuck are people actively choosing to look at ads?
Seriously tho what are you even talking about?
If you want to look at ads that much you can go back to reddit yourself. Im gonna stay here telling people not to let themselves be leeched of with ad tech and tracking when there is no reason to.
Familiarity for one; it was a great Reddit client and it’s a good Lemmy one too. I certainly made the shift to Lemmy a lot more frictionless.
It also has a sensible layout, decent customisation, the dev is (or was, at least) responsive to the users and it was a solution that ‘just worked’.
I paid for ad free ages ago, moving from RIF and I hadn’t looked back.
It hasn’t been updated in a while though, so I’m playing with Thunder and it’s been a pretty nice option as well. Plus, you know, FOSS and available on Droidify/F-Droid. It’s far and away the best ‘native’ Lemmy clientnive used to date.
Even my lemmy feed on Boost is full of AfD adverts, it’s enfuriating.
Wtf? How are there still people using this kinda garbage app? Lemmy and the fediverse is free, run and developed by volunteers. There are plenty of open source clients to choose from. Why in the fuck are people actively choosing to look at ads?
I don’t get it either.
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Ayee i caught a nazi that uses nazi words 🎉
Seriously tho what are you even talking about? If you want to look at ads that much you can go back to reddit yourself. Im gonna stay here telling people not to let themselves be leeched of with ad tech and tracking when there is no reason to.
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Damn dude, how are you this mad over something like this? I can taste the salt through the screen.
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This is really bad rage bait man. You at least have to engage with the topic at surface level if you wanna really make people mad.
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How do you get ads on Lemmy?
You get ads on Boost
Why would someone use boost instead of another option?
General curiosity
Familiarity for one; it was a great Reddit client and it’s a good Lemmy one too. I certainly made the shift to Lemmy a lot more frictionless.
It also has a sensible layout, decent customisation, the dev is (or was, at least) responsive to the users and it was a solution that ‘just worked’.
I paid for ad free ages ago, moving from RIF and I hadn’t looked back.
It hasn’t been updated in a while though, so I’m playing with Thunder and it’s been a pretty nice option as well. Plus, you know, FOSS and available on Droidify/F-Droid. It’s far and away the best ‘native’ Lemmy clientnive used to date.
It’s a very good app and the ads are to me (and I hate ads very much, I use ublock and revanced) not significantly intrusive.
Change apps!
Other than the ads, is there a compelling reason to?
https://adaway.org/
No need to thank me.
Ooh, I’m on trackercontrol - is adaway better or pretty much the same? I get ads on tiktok but not much else 😅
I don’t know about trackercontrol but I haven’t seen a single ad in the last three years with Adaway.