You used to have to pay for the mobile apps (though, not per device but per apple/google account) a while ago, maybe the previous poster was talking about that.

One swing with a sledgehammer should do the trick.

No, blocking an instance only prevents you from seeing communities on those instances. You can still interact with users from that instance in other communities. It basically just prevents you from accidentality wandering into their home-turf.

The instance you’re on really doesn’t matter that much (unless you want one that already comes with a big de-federation list, like certain “safe-space” instances).

The more important part is curating your feed by blocking offending instances/users you don’t want to interact with.

Alright then, knock yourself out. Don’t expect any good-faith arguments or reasonable conversation from these instances, though. You’ll be disappointed.

Just block the tankie triad instances and the problem mostly goes away.

I mean, it’s not the best song but I wouldn’t call it garbage.

Absolutely. I hate children, though.

This does qualify as a thought I guess …

https://xkcd.com/3253/

(read the alt-text!)

Cabbages.

Are you telling me there are porn videos involving Joseph D. Kucan?

If you try and stop your adult son from being a Superhero you are a abusive predator

No, you’re not. Are you sure you know what these words mean?

On the internet? No.

Many thousand dollars sunk into hardware. The electricity bill, I guess. Other than that, Mullvad is probably the only running cost related to self-hosting.

thank you for not using /s and just taking the downvotes like champ!

Patreon is up there.

Most of the page is just wasted white space, the menu collapses randomly to little icons (guess so we can have more whitespace), the video feed is a small strip between the white space with only one video per column, ensuring you can never fit more than 3 on the page. The player somehow stretches across the fill page width, replacing some of the wasted white space with wasted black space. And that’s just the interface.

You also have to unsubscribe from like 7 mailing lists per creator, individually, no option to disable entire lists (or they don’t work). They also randomly add new lists which are by default enabled so you have to go through all your creators again. Oh, and if you click too fast when disabling their settings, sometimes it won’t save … at some point I just made an outlook rule auto-flagging all their mails as spam, because fuck that.

I don’t think you understand what that means.

You asked for reasons, I gave you one.

Well, what’s there not to hate about the biggest paedo ring in the world?

Noise cancelling headphones!