Most likely YouTube, Lemmy, and Facebook. After that is assorted pirate streaming sites and whatever Tachiyomi sources I have. I give a little education and entertainment, I take a little education and entertainment...
I'm sure Meta dislikes my use case, as I'm basically a data miner. I have a profile that I haven't contributed to in probably 5 years or so, I don't post or upload. I was going to delete my account around the time I moved over here to Lemmy, but I started posting to the Superbowl community as it was fizzling out already. I shared what handful of photos I had, but I soon ran out.
I started getting stuff from various sources like Flickr and eBird and the news, but I started getting really interested in wildlife rehab. As charities, Facebook is still the way to go to promote charities since it's free, widespread, and easy and quick to use. When every penny, second, and view counts, what beats Facebook for that?
Now my feed is basically nothing but animal rescues and wildlife photographers (and increasingly AI) and I curate (steal) the good stuff and bring it to you all here without Zuckerberg getting his mitts on your data and the original source still gets all the credit.
Doing that and seeing the positive stories lead me to volunteering at my local rehab this year and it's been lifechanging. So there is still some good that can be taken from it if one puts in the effort, but you still shouldn't because it's Meta and they've got the ick. So let me do it for you. I've already taken the hit and shared enough stuff, so now I'm going to siphon their stuff like they want to do to us, but I do it to promote wildlife rescue.
It's not like any of the rescues particularly love Facebook that I'm aware of, they just want people to exist and know they need volunteers and money. Photographers want to promote their work or sell prints or their guided tours. I pass all that info along to you guys so you can find them on whatever platform you want. It's not like I want to take any credit for it, I want you guys to support them, but if you guys won't touch Facebook, they lose out. But I've dedicated hundreds of dollars and 100+ hours this year because of my sharing content, one or 2 of my subs have become volunteers, and hopefully a handful of others have kicked in something to their local rescues.
So Facebook can still provide some stuff, at the cost of privacy, but if I can extract the good and leave the bad behind for my 5000 subs, I feel that's me doing something good.
Fair explanation, but don't get sucked in. I noticed the algo just subtly shifts enough where you don't notice it at first, and the comment sections are always so angry. Don't let it happen to you over there
It does still try to hit me with political ragebait, but I ignore all that.
Comments are total shit no matter the subject. Even reading the comments for the rescue I work at, at least half of it is people telling us we're the worst people on Earth. 🙄
My RSS reader, YouTube, and I'll lump my daily puzzles together as the third (NYT, Puzzmo and LinkedIn). I really just get everywhere else through the RSS.
depends on the browser. I use chrome for just google things and edge for just microsoft things. taking those two out and just with what I have in firefox it would be piefed.social, then duck duck go, then wikipedia I think.
Reddit itself is very US-centric and has pro-US stances relative to many Lemmy instances. Is it for a lack of non-US communities or non-US users in general?
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sylver_dragon@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 337d
Ad Blockers must be working. Marketers are now just straight up asking people to spy on themselves.
eldavi@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 337d
i always respond w porn sites because they seem to try avoiding it. lol
bathing_in_bismuth@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 337d
nicetryfbi.gov
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 11 pts · 337d
How would I know that?
Scavenger8294@feddit.org · 2 pts · 337d
some people have their go to sites
swelter_spark@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 337d
Same.
AstroLightz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 337d
bluesheep@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 334d
One can only wonder what distro this person runs
hoagecko@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 337d
This Image is Visualization of visited sites using the LightBeam Firefox extension.
MrMoon@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 337d
Pornhub, xhentai and YouTube.
vortexal@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 336d
I haven't heard of that second one before.
MrMoon@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 334d
Noob
vortexal@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 334d
I'm not gonna lie, I wasn't expecting that response.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 336d
Uhhhh, here you go
ilovetrump.org
democracyisforlosers.org
petitionstotrump.gov
leviathan@feddit.org · 5 pts · 337d
Wikipedia, Github, Alternativeto
glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 337d
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 337d
Wikipedia, DDG, and unfortunately old reddit (I only lurk when on desktop since we're missing certain things like an active community for my city)
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 4 pts · 337d
Github, Lemmy, my blog.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d
Most likely YouTube, Lemmy, and Facebook. After that is assorted pirate streaming sites and whatever Tachiyomi sources I have. I give a little education and entertainment, I take a little education and entertainment...
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 3 pts · 337d
May I ask honestly why Facebook? Every time I try it I just see rage bait and people I stopped caring about 20 years ago
anon6789@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 337d
I very valid question with a very valid answer.
I'm sure Meta dislikes my use case, as I'm basically a data miner. I have a profile that I haven't contributed to in probably 5 years or so, I don't post or upload. I was going to delete my account around the time I moved over here to Lemmy, but I started posting to the Superbowl community as it was fizzling out already. I shared what handful of photos I had, but I soon ran out.
I started getting stuff from various sources like Flickr and eBird and the news, but I started getting really interested in wildlife rehab. As charities, Facebook is still the way to go to promote charities since it's free, widespread, and easy and quick to use. When every penny, second, and view counts, what beats Facebook for that?
Now my feed is basically nothing but animal rescues and wildlife photographers (and increasingly AI) and I curate (steal) the good stuff and bring it to you all here without Zuckerberg getting his mitts on your data and the original source still gets all the credit.
Doing that and seeing the positive stories lead me to volunteering at my local rehab this year and it's been lifechanging. So there is still some good that can be taken from it if one puts in the effort, but you still shouldn't because it's Meta and they've got the ick. So let me do it for you. I've already taken the hit and shared enough stuff, so now I'm going to siphon their stuff like they want to do to us, but I do it to promote wildlife rescue.
It's not like any of the rescues particularly love Facebook that I'm aware of, they just want people to exist and know they need volunteers and money. Photographers want to promote their work or sell prints or their guided tours. I pass all that info along to you guys so you can find them on whatever platform you want. It's not like I want to take any credit for it, I want you guys to support them, but if you guys won't touch Facebook, they lose out. But I've dedicated hundreds of dollars and 100+ hours this year because of my sharing content, one or 2 of my subs have become volunteers, and hopefully a handful of others have kicked in something to their local rescues.
So Facebook can still provide some stuff, at the cost of privacy, but if I can extract the good and leave the bad behind for my 5000 subs, I feel that's me doing something good.
Wahots@pawb.social · 2 pts · 336d
Thank you for what you do!
anon6789@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
I get a lot of enjoyment from having so many of you to share all I learn with.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 2 pts · 337d
Fair explanation, but don't get sucked in. I noticed the algo just subtly shifts enough where you don't notice it at first, and the comment sections are always so angry. Don't let it happen to you over there
anon6789@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 337d
It does still try to hit me with political ragebait, but I ignore all that.
Comments are total shit no matter the subject. Even reading the comments for the rescue I work at, at least half of it is people telling us we're the worst people on Earth. 🙄
Mocheeze@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 336d
My RSS reader, YouTube, and I'll lump my daily puzzles together as the third (NYT, Puzzmo and LinkedIn). I really just get everywhere else through the RSS.
Nemo@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 337d
in the last three months:
Cowbee@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 337d
Lemmy.ml & Hexbear.net, Prolewiki, Red Sails. At least, for now.
TechnoCat@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 337d
AmanitaCaesarea@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 337d
YouTube Cineby.app HiAnime. Better not misspell Hianime lol ;)
nagaram@startrek.website · 1 pts · 336d
Probably
Hachyderm.io Startrek.website
Then if web apps count then my proxmox instance
If not then floatplane.com
I'm a Linus shill, but I'm also a Craft Computing, LevelOneTechs, and Jeff Geerling shill.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 335d
127.0.0.1:80
monovergent@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 337d
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 337d
depends on the browser. I use chrome for just google things and edge for just microsoft things. taking those two out and just with what I have in firefox it would be piefed.social, then duck duck go, then wikipedia I think.
toomuchrdio@retrolemmy.com · 1 pts · 337d
youtube, my site, lemmy
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 0 pts · 337d
Reddit
Practically the only way to find content written by humans
JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social · 4 pts · 337d
May I burn in hell, but that's in my top 3 also, along with Google and WP.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 337d
Looks like I'm going to get downvoted into oblivion
Thanks for staying on this ship with me
folaht@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 337d
I blame lemmy's and lemmygrad's political structure for the latter (too US-centric/pro-US).
monovergent@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 337d
Reddit itself is very US-centric and has pro-US stances relative to many Lemmy instances. Is it for a lack of non-US communities or non-US users in general?
folaht@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 336d
No, I just only visit /r/Sino and that's my base level of US-neutral
monovergent@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 336d
based