Damn, tf did you do? I’m only banned from .ml bc when O first joined Lemmy, I selected them as my instance not knowing any better. Then I did what any sane person would do and told tankies they were insane and a curse upon the workd. The Davel, a mod there, got butthurt as hell and here I am.
I recommend using iCloud for sync instead if you’re on Apple.
Confiscations? I’m unfamiliar with the term
Well that’s what I mean by “good faith participation” — usually that includes showing off what you are doing/creating to a community you are a part of.
The problem, that you acknowledge, is that some businesses (in reality a majority) do purely advertisements. It is indeed a slippery slope.
However, I’ve seen small businesses/individuals post content that gets praised by the general population of a community and then people start asking “Hey, where’d you get that? Where can I get that?” And then the OP is like “Well I actually make it myself, I sell them as a business but also engage in the hobby myself”. THAT is the most successful way I have seen a business interact in an online forum.
I shouldn’t be required to take extra steps to mute advertisements I didn’t ask for, consent to, or otherwise search for.
If small businesses want their own instances, that’s in their power to do so, willing participation in those instances will be difficult to accumulate I suspect.
They should leave it alone. I don’t want to see ads everywhere or worse, ads disguised as content. Reddit has been going to shit due to, in part, the rampant commercialization of the platform.
If a post puts out a call asking for a product that your SB can provide, feel free to post that you have the answer. Beyond that, don’t inundate us with attempts to see your product.
Edit: That said, I do agree with the other commenter who says be an easy-to-contact support account.
You work with model train products it seems, so good-faith, non-advertising participation in such communities is the best way to engage. That’ll do more for your branding, reputation, and business profits that shoehorning ads in.
Lmao consider me pre-seed then, where’s my money lmao.
Wtf is a “pre-seed founder”?
I’m stalwart enough in my leftism that anything that corpos love makes me question it immediately. I’ve nothing inherent against immigrants/refugees who come here through the (very flawed) process or even those who don’t but come here, integrate, and then contribute/participate positively within the communities they immigrate to.
However, the H1B shit just seems to a) exploit minorities/immigrants while holding their visa over their head (dems shouldn’t like this based on their principles) while b) outsources jobs that could likely be given to existing, qualified citizens (republicans shouldn’t this based on their principles), c) all to ultimately benefit a corporation’s quarterly earnings.
I dislike Trump as much as the next guy but I don’t currently have an issue with him obliterating the H1B program.
Lol at that point ya may as well get an electric moped!
Can corroborate lmao. They’ve saved me so much time that I usually spent correcting misinfo, but I guess that’s what they want on their platform. Anyways Lemmy’s been an okay replacement.
At a certain point, you’d essentially be feeding a super-staph infection the now useless antibiotics as a supplement for it to grow lmao.
The drivers for sure. I live in a major metropolitan area on the east coast and at the intersection of three jurisdictions.
My home state’s drivers are slow as molasses and geriatric or are obviously foreign and didn’t take U.S. driver’s ed.
Across the river is a bunch of sheltered drivers who I normally pity. Their city is usually walkable or transit-able so driving is not something you could even expect them to be good at.
And then there’s the adjacent state which is notoriously home to some of the worst drivers in the US who genuinely, routinely make me fear for my life when they’re in my proximity on the road lol. Hate those drivers.
Other than that, I think the culture of my home state is much warmer and friendly while the adjacent state is nice but the people are also a bit more standoffish and cold. Home state is a barren wasteland of awful roads and data centers, adjacent state has so much green space and well-developed communities.
Was the Lemmy dev DaveL or Davel or something?