Modern internet is broken and no longer built for human beings. By 2026 the internet is filled with robots . One type of robots generates content and injects advertisements, another type ingests that content and emulates human engagement metrics. Modern social media platforms treat spam as something evil that must be automatically removed. But the irony is that commercial spam was never removed. It became the dominant form of communication on the internet.
  • Dave.@aussie.zone
    14·
    2 days ago

    Do not remove my spam

    If I want to find something, I’ll look for it.

    Don’t dump a truckload of unsolicited information in my inbox/workflow/field of view.

    Otherwise you’re as bad as door to door religious folks. Oh yes, I’ve heard about Jesus, thanks. Now let me get back to what I was actually doing a few minutes ago before you begged for my attention.

    • ApocolypticGopher@infosec.pub
      7·
      2 days ago

      Yeah the author talks about how on the old internet it was great that you’d just stumble across people on blogs\rss, mailing lists, and other things you subscribe to. Then just chucks all that to the side and sets up automated ways to force his work in front of people.

      • Shin@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The author also forgot that often in th mailing list, rss and such, it’s somewhat expected outside view, similar to a post in th federated media (like this one)

  • felsiq@lemmy.zip
    18·
    2 days ago

    I’ve never been so unable to relate to someone’s thought process, I love this

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
    3·
    2 days ago

    I agree with OP. They’re basically asking that you should be allowed to promote open source, freely available solutions to problems people might have.

    It’s a lot different from an ad since it’s ultimately well intentioned. Of course there might be caveats like not actually being open source or doing a rugpull im the future. But, those can be handled.

    I’m so tired of people never even having heard of lichess, or linux, or other foss tools because the marketing for windows and chess commis so aggressive. Most people on lemmy may not realize this, since I suspect we have a uniquely high population of adblock users, on a social media platform with no ads. But regular users, even ones who may be using github, sort of live with in that bubble, and only know about xyz tool because they saw an ad or youtube recommended it to them or whatever.

    edit: though I do think they were kinda pushy in the issue linked after users told them no in criticized it for being too new. But ultimately, without that issue people wouldn’t even know about their project.

    • Shin@piefed.socialEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’m a Adblock user for so long that I have no ideia what/how the internet is without one. And I always brute force people around me to install one.