If we want online discourse to improve, we need to move beyond the big platforms.

We’re in a very strange moment for the internet. We all know it’s broken. That’s not news. But there’s something in the air—a vibe shift, a sense that things are about to change.

  • @nucleativeEnglish
    73•1 year ago

    Oh the irony, I opened the site which has no less than 3 popups and it immediately fried my mobile browser. I had to kill the tab.

    • @tinkeringidiotEnglish
      12•1 year ago

      My pihole guaranteed that my experience remained pristine. The author didn’t make any money from my visit, but their income loss is a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

      Which is really what the whole problem here boils down to.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•1 year ago

      And people ask why we use adblocks… my potato computer can’t even browse the web without blocking as much stuff as I can.

      • @[email protected]English
        4•1 year ago

        I use pihole at home, but when I take my laptop out and about, I sometimes notice its fan going wild. Shut down the tab I’m reading and it calms down. What the hell are running on these sites?

        • jelloeater - Ops MgrEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          Run pihole as a service… I think you can do that, maybe with a docker container?

        • @[email protected]English
          1•1 year ago

          I remember one time wwhen I was browsing reddit for a few minutes (booted righ before, doing nothing else, fedora os, minimum stuff installed, no unusual activity in the process list, automatic updates disabled) and noticed my fans spinning a lot, so I opened the system monitor to check what was happening. It was showing high cpu usage in a firefox process, and it registered 40bg of downloaded data!

          It never happened again, so I guess it was some sort of bug they fixed, but still, it was something so bizarre to see.

    • z500English
      4•1 year ago

      Oh God, it’s all over now, the bed bug experts have been compromised

        • ripcord
          5•1 year ago

          Are you not using ublock or something too? I didn’t see any of that and is all I have installed. Maybe I just got lucky.

          • @nucleativeEnglish
            5•1 year ago

            Not using ublock on my mobile until just now. I went to another location and opened it and this site wasn’t as bad that time, just the paywall got me

            • @[email protected]English
              4•1 year ago

              try hitting reading mode before the site can fully load I’ve found that can bypass it 9/10

              • @nucleativeEnglish
                2•1 year ago

                Ok, will try reading mode next time I see a paywall. Thanks for the tip!