porn star; that is if i were hot. lol

i learned to stay away from midtown or battery-park/statue-of-liberty or any other tourist traps between friday afternoon and monday morning as a result of this.

– lemmy at its core

t go through the ALL feed every once and a while.

i know that this type of sexual behavior is described on the kinsey scale since i’m op’s exact opposite; but the verbose justification where kinsey was more succinct has my-lady-doth-protest-too-much energy, but with a dash of transphobia.

I never thought of it as powerful before and I like it! Lol

I used to be on .world also but left partially because of the points you’ve made and switching to .ml has been MUCH better for me.

I’ve been moving from one social media platform to another, since the time of icq & bbs, every time it enshitifies and it’s clear that happens once it becomes centralized enough and w significant financial backing.

.world and .ee are the closest things to that, that exists on the lemmyverse and I hope that they don’t go down the same path.

Not more stoked than I; I’ve never had a busier social life and my asocially autistic ass is still surprised by it each time I get another invite.

I’m aware that it makes people cringe, but it’s so true that I’ve never been more happy; more bottoms than a top could ever ask for… Enough to over come the negativety from all the judgemental or bitter queens.

technically; that was a movie, not tng.

but I did log into my Google account

I did log into Windows 11 with my Microsoft account.

both google and microsoft are constantly slurping your data (including ip addresses and browser fingerprints) to sell to sites like reddit and they make a TON of money off it. i know for a fact that reddit buys google’s analytics and that could explain whey it took a couple of days to catch up with you.

I don’t track every IP address I’ve ever used.

sites like reddit do keep track of your ip address via automated means and this is another way they can track you

There’s just WAY more content on Reddit that you can’t get on Lemmy.

is that content still worth it despite knowing that you’re supporting the consent manufacturing that enables endless wars and genocides like the gazans or perpetuating the capitalist profit motives that makes things like housing and eggs so unaffordable for us?

i know that it seems like your contributions to this dystopian system feels negligible at most and likening reddit usage to it feels specious; but then again the drop of rain would never feel responsible for the flood if it could and, after all, it’s only rain.

did you use the same websites on brave that you normally use?

did you use a different operating system?

did you use a brave account on it?

did you verify that your vpn was using an exit point ip address that you’ve never used before every single time you accessed reddit?

most importantly: why bother using reddit?

The neurodivergent attract the neurodivergent like magnets; it’s either a strong, irresistible bond or a complete, u equivocal rejection, never in between.

It sounds like they’re undiagnosed.

agreed, but only for now.

if you read further on in this post, it’ll appear that their ultimate goal is to give brands the opportunity to clean any ghoulish reputation w money.

nothanks does

i wish i could say the same thing; but i dont have enough money to know. lol

i think i’m going to start using more than one at a time as a cross comparison and investigate the dissenter.

based solely on what you’ve found (and not doing my own homework): it seems like they’re going the adblock plus route where they’re good to use until they get a critical enough mass of users to start selling their data and the we’ll have to switch to the ublock origin like alternative.

that’s good to know that they’re doing the same thing as adblock plus did.

there are other apps that do the same thing and i’ll be trying them now; thanks for the heads up.

edit: maybe this one?

very much so! lemmy has been a godsend for me.

i knew i was too weak to avoid reddit; so i tried to get them to ban me by breaking all of the rules and they wouldn’t.

so i setup a blacklist in my own dns w an 8 hour timeout and a 30 minute window to force myself to stay away.