Same reasons that ad tiers are gaining a foothold in streaming services like Netflix. The consumer has shown they are fine with it.

Yep, I remember when Netlfix first put it out there that they would start with the ads, and everyone on reddit was like, “Canceling my Netflix right now!!”

Netflix is doing just fine without the 5 redditors who actually did cancel it. lmao

Totally agree!

Great post. Thank you for this insight!

And he was right!

Ahhh, the good ole days

Change will only ever come from the workers organizing together from the ground up,

Amen, brother.

Whenever I see these articles, I feel like it’s part of OpenAI’s marketing strategy to use the fear-based media to pump up the sense of how revolutionary their tech is

Yep, I think that’s what’s going on too.

Because your comment is there, I just noticed it, and I replied to it.

Again, that’s the same thread I posted already.

Enjoy the attention others give you!

Well, I mean, I did post a disclaimer right after posting the original article in question, in an effort to deflect this “attention.” Um, didn’t seem to work in that thread in the original community. :/

And I posted here for a technical answer since my posting history shows nothing every posted to the instance (which I’d never even heard of until today) that banned me.

But thanks for your input. I may not agree with it, but I support your right to it.

I’d just block that one nutter and move on. Are they here in the thread, by any chance?

Yep, and he’s giving you some crap right now in this thread. It’s @pooperNickel@lemm.ee

lol

Yeah I read the thread and saw how you left out the context with the screenshots proving you got permabanned from an entire instance for being “toxic”. The fake sounding comments in your history don’t convince me that’s wrong either.

I posted the link to the thread though. I didn’t leave out the context, because all the links are in that, and you can go up the thread tree as far as you want. I linked to the part where he posted the screenshot.

Also, there’s no instance in my entire posting history of ever interacting with that community. So I was curious how I could be banned from a place I’ve never posted to.

Do you have any info about what I supposedly posted that got me banned? The only two instances I’ve posted to are here on .world and a few times on .ml, and I’m not banned from either of those.

or says thank you after every interaction…

lol yeah, because I say thank you, I’m obviously fake. Ok…

But wait, I am talking to you right now. Or am I faking that too? Um…

Why did you draw attention to all of this here?

Because I had a question about what it meant. And I didn’t understand what the user was meaning and I have never even been to the instance that banned me. And I’ve received some helpful answers. After I posted, I realized that it was probably better to send to No Stupid Questions, so I crossposted. I def can see how tech people would be annoyed with my question tho, sorry!

That user just got banned from World News sub and just now had comments removed from the c/politics sub I was talking with I’m in. So now I realize that he’s actually full of shit.

And hey, if you don’t agree, that’s cool too.

Than— oops, sorry! I was just about to say it. Bad habit, I know now!

chances are you know what you did,

Actually no. I have never read of Dubvee, don’t know how to get to it, I don’t even know what it is. I am genuinely curious, which is why I posted here.

And no, it’s NOT that important, but a user is accusing me of being toxic and using that as proof, but with no posts or samples of anything that I have ever posted to that community or anything.

And as I said earlier, in addition to not even knowing what that community is, there are no posts or comments or notifications on my end either. I legit only found out when he posted that screenshot in a political news community.

My main instance is here on Lemmy.world, and I only recently even learned what instances were. Not that I am a moron, but I am still new to the whole fediverse model. I was just a reddit user that came here after the suck was just too much there.

And even then I had to follow step-by-step directions on how to set up an account. I’ve only been on for less than a month.

Which does make me sound like a moron, but I’m learning! Thank you for the reply.

And no, you don’t have time to go thru my comment history. The majority of which is me arguing with this one user who alternates from saying I am a computer bot to russian operative living outside of the US and/or a secret Trump plant. Even tho I created and mod the socialist sub here on Lemmy! It’s been fucking wild couple of weeks! lmao

I was going to get into Linux right after I retired, but then decided un-retire and went back into the workforce to be an elementary teacher’s aide.

But when I retire again in another year or so, I am gonna look into the the whole Linux thing. Right now I’m Mac-based, so hopefully it won’t be so hard. But I actually can’t wait to learn all about it!

Ahh, ok, well he has been following me for a while now and my account is only a month old. But another user said it happens often to new users, so maybe it’s just that.

One, weird that he went into that much detail, when even I don’t know how to see that info and never had any idea. And two, weird how he is laughing about the proof, without showing any actual comments that got me permabanned. But meh, as someone else said, the dude is probably full of shit. And I didn’t even know I was permabanned and never heard of that instance. lol

Thank you for replying. You guys rock!

That’s just the thread I have already posted when I asked the question, friend.

Someone mentioned that any owner of an instance can ban me. Is it possible that the guy who is showing me this “proof,” yet declined to show me any posts, actually owns an instance, and then banned me. Then returned to magically say “Gotcha!”?

Cuz he has been following me for several days and has had some of his comments removed for civility. So I am wondering if it’s some weird persona vendetta. Our conversation is in the thread, but i am beginning to think this is all a fack gotcha to weirdly make him think he has got me or something. I don’t know. I love Lemmy, but man some of these posters…lol

And that’s what’s so weird. I have never even heard of dubvee, or even know how to get there.

Wait, is it possible that the guy who is showing me this “proof” of how “toxic” I am, actually owns an instance, banned me, and then decided to use that for proof?! Because his attitude definitely would fit the profile of someone doing that! And when I asked him what post did it, he declined to show me. Yet was happy to show the screenshot of the ban. Which I didn’t even know I had.

EDIT: No proof of that. Just curious

Hmm, but any idea on what post would have banned me and I never received any notification. I did crosspost some socialist community articles to the .MI socialist community now that I think of it.

But I never got any negative comments nor any notification. But maybe it was because I crossposted an article?!

Because the user attacking me who showed the screenshot is trying to show how “toxic” I am, but I still have no clue and nothing in there says anything about “toxic.” lol

I mean, not that important. Since I didn’t even know I got permabanned from whatever instance it is, but just curious. Thank you!