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  • Blackspider1111tosh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•Advertising Lemmy on r/placeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    A lot of people are thinking short term when it comes to Reddits traffic IMO. Sure, temporarily we would boost Reddits traffic but long term would probably hurt them. By this time next year, I’m sure Lemmy would have much higher contributing numbers than now, and next r/place will either A) not happen or B) happen with embarrassingly low participation. We could have c/place here instead.

    I agree that helping Reddits traffic by participating doesn’t seem like a good idea, but I also don’t think that ignoring Reddit will make the *problem go away either. So I support the cause, but as I used to use RIF, I will not be participating, but more luck to you.

    *one could argue there is no problem as Reddit is a separate entity to Lemmy. But I, like the rest of the community, support having more people switch here so we have more content. Honestly, I don’t care about Reddit as long as Lemmy can provide the content we used to see over there.

  • Blackspider1111toNo such thing as stupid questions@lemmit.online•Did Africans own slaves in the past?English
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    1 year ago

    Yes.

    And to expand on it a little bit more, African tribes in the 17th and 18th century hated each other. Typically, one African tribe would capture members of another and then sell them to European slave traders if they didn’t use them for slaves themsleves. That’s partly how African slaves became more popular than any other ethnic group becoming slaves around that time.

    Historically, farther back in BCE, (I can’t confirm an exact time frame, but I know this happened for centuries) jews and other Hebrew ethnic groups were very popular in Northern Africa for slaves. That’s how we have the pyramids today. This is (partly) mentioned in the Bible, however, there are other third party secular sources that have confirmed this as true.

    And lastly, while technically African, white south Africans during the British empire also owned slaves and apartheid was very popular until the 1990s because of this as well.

    Due to all this, one could argue that Africans invented slavery and spread the practice worldwide, however I’m not a scholar so I’m sure a history professor at a university could explain the nuances of my answer in detail and add corrections as needed.

  • Blackspider1111toAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Do you use adblock? Why? Why not?
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    1 year ago

    Yes, I use adblock. Most sites I visit didn’t have ads on them 15 years ago. I don’t want to see the ads now. As others have said, they are way too scammy and intrusive.

    But your second point about not caring about the creator, i always thibk about this. YouTube. They will do two 15 second unskippable ads for a 5 second video… and then the creator of that video DOES NOT SEE A CENT FROM THE ADVERTISERS OR YOUTUBE! Why? Because its not monetizable, thats why! Why would I waste my time over that kind of crap? Or, worse yet, if I wanted to watch another advertisement on YouTube, I have to watch an ad to watch an ad? Why does that make sense? It’s not the consumers that don’t watch ads that don’t care about the creators. It’s a platform that monetizes its users and then doesn’t pay them for it.

    Which don’t get me started on Reddit…