I heard bears attract them
Only the ones with a poor understanding of risk. Maybe that's desirable?
Schadrach
joined 2 years ago
Why are so many people doing an act that is objectively creepy, stupid and most users hate the entire experience?
The death of third places.
My favorite saying: "There are two kinds of people you can never trust in this world - salesmen and politicians, and politicians are just salesmen selling that they should be in charge."
The hypothetical was a world without advertising, not a world without capitalism. You could make a food blog for the love of it without caring if anyone reads it or not now, but you likely wouldn't bother with SEO if you did for the same reason.
Right, but the food blog is still going to end up with an incentive for people to see it, so they're still going to SEO because they can't get subs/patrons/whatever they get income from from people who don't know they exist. So, the implication is that search engines would preference a different style of food blog in the absence of advertising?
You have a long blog post because Google's SEO favors that, and that's tied into advertising.
So in your hypothetical advertising free world we also don't have search engines, at all? Or at least search engine results specifically don't favor long blog posts?
Online recipes will still have long, unnecessary stories at the start.
This is less because of that and more copyright. You can't copyright a recipe as such, so the framing and layout and bullshit narrative are there to fix that.
...and most of the people who agree with that notion would also consider reading Lemmy to be "trawling dark waters" because it's not a major site run by a massive corporation actively working to maintain advertiser friendliness to maximize profits. Hell, Matrix is practically Lemmy-adjacent in terms of the tech.
eventually they want to move on to the real thing, as porn is not satisfying them anymore.
Isn't this basically the same argument as arguing violent media creates killers?
They have to deal with old men masturbating to them getting raped online.
The moment it was posted to wherever they were going to have to deal with that forever. It's not like they can ever know for certain that every copy of it ever made has been deleted.
it says “this hidden site”, meaning it was a site on the dark web.
Not just on the dark web (which technically is anything not indexed by search engines) but hidden sites are specifically a TOR thing (though Freenet/Hyphanet has something similar but it's called something else). Usually a TOR hidden site has a URL that ends in .onion and the TOR protocol has a structure for routing .onion addresses.
I found her video on Men interesting. Not the contents of the video as such (though her production was as always top notch) but the reaction to it. It seemed like a big chunk of her fan base was mad at her for touching the topic at all and another big chunk acted like she was saying a bunch of uniquely revelatory things and were pointing to stuff she said that Alison Tieman had arrived at something like a decade before.