1. It has gotten bigger. More active. More posts, more new content. When i first came over i would check the All page, sorted by eitber Active or Hot, and only find a couple of new posts per day. It is still nowhere near as active as Reddit was back then (probably a goos thing), but it has enough content to help me procrastinate at work now.

2. LemmyNSFW died and has been replaced by FediNSFW recently. I am sure that it will be better in the long-term, but it still doesn’t seem to be back to where it was yet. I think a lot of the old posters were bots, largely re-posting from Reddit, and not all of those have been rebuilt yet. I have mixed feelings about that.

3. The Connect app has gotten better and better. Love it.

4. For the past year or so, Lemmy has been of a size big enougj for patterns to ripple and promulgate through it bht small enough to notice them. For example, almost immediately after New Years several different communities on different instances started to see a drastix influx of webcomic posts. Usually 4-panel ones. Usually low-fidelity ones (XKCD-style, not Girl Genius for example). And usually oned with some sort of error or controversy. Rage bait to get the comments going, but nothing controversial enough to get banned or removed.

There would be new accounts made that just posted a handful of these comics quickly, and sometimes argue with people in the comments. Once people like me started pointing out the pattern they started deleting the posts and accounts after a couple days. I’m not sure when it stopped, but i have not noticed one for probably a month.

It’s also known as Price Discrimination, and depending on the details and jurisdiction sometimes it IS illegal.

Laws need to be updated to keep up with tech, and ENFORCED.

Sony Xperia 1 IV. Their naming scheme is terrible.

Main reason is because I wanted a future-proof, flagship phone with a headphone jack and micro SD card slot. Both have proven very useful, and I am still kind of in shock that most manufacturers have dropped them.

Stock android. Still using the NoVa launcher because I haven’t had the free time to try out others, plus my pi-hole seems to block the ads they have been introducing for now.

The Xperia has a weirdly narrow screen. I like it in a vacuum better than todays phablets, but I think the occasional webpage scales weirdly.

All of your problems seem to be with things outside of OnlyFans.

It combines the sexual exploitation of mainstream porn with the economic exploitation of the gig economy

A quote directly from one of the articles you linked that I think hits the nail on the head. The problem is capitalism. The workers of OnlyFans are being exploited in the same way that Uber drivers are. Honestly, in a similar manner to how baristas and programmers and oil riggers and everyone else working under capitalism is. That’s why I’m not sad that this billionaire owner died.

The other problems you mention are problems on other platforms. It sounds like whatever dating app you are using has a problem with people using it to advertise their business- I think it’s the responsibility of the dating app to crack down on such misuse and give users a mechanism to report that.

If your Facebook feed is full of OF ads… Well first of all you should get off of Facebook because it’s terrible, but also Meta should crack down on what advertising they allow and how. Or maybe… You’re in the tiny minority if people who care?

Other platforms have tools to address similar issues. I always laugh when people complain about seeing adult content on Steam because that is turned off by default- you need to dig through your store preferences to allow that. The old LemmyNSFW instance had different communities- some allowed or even encouraged OF creators, while others banned them. That seemed to work well. I haven’t paid as much attention to FediNSFW and it’s probably still forming those sorts of structures, but I expect them to be there eventually.

I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect OnlyFans to have any sort of say in where and how creators advertise on other platforms. Such restriction wood be draconian.

Brother I do that every day and I’m an accountant

“Back in my days the women of porn were properly underpaid and fully exploited to do exactly what I wanted for way cheaper!”

I’m not mourning the death of a billionaire. And sure, the advertising of pornographic content could probably use a bit of regulation… Heck, that probably applies to advertising more broadly. But I’m not upset that sex workers today have alternatives to working with sketchy producers. I’d rather a #girlboss spam Facebook (which you shouldn’t be using in 2026 anyways) than a GirlsDoPorn situation.

Congratulations!

One of the most important pieces of Trump’s 2024 election was getting the Hispanic vote. Sure, he spent years before, during, and after his first term talking about cracking down on immigration on the southern border, talking about how all of the people coming from Mexico or further south were a bunch of criminals and drug dealers. BUT he courted the Cuban population in southern Florida - mostly the descendants of people who were wealthy enough to have their wealth redistributed by Castro. By calling Harris a communist he was able to get their votes, win Florida, and that would have made the difference in the election.

The very concept of who counts as “white” changes depending on what the racists of the time want. In the not-too-distant past, Irish and Italian people were not considered white. I still don’t know if Bernie Sanders or other Jews are considered white or not.

Even for data like this… Is it really a black women vs white women issue, or is it a rich person vs poor person issue? And yes, those economic division have deep roots in the history of racism, but that doesn’t explain the whole picture.

Look at the people around Trump. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is one of those Cuban south Floridians. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer is a Hispanic woman. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is part Samoan, born in Somoa. FBI Director Kash Patel is Indian - his family fled persecution in Uganada.

And then there’s foreign policy. Trump seems to largely be pushing the USA away from predominantly white European countries that have historically been allies. Trying to break up NATO and undermine the EU, making threats against Canada and Greenland. Cozying up to Muhammed Bin Salman.

The people in power love when the masses fight amongst themselves.

It’s a good start, but I think the reality is that it’s a bunch of spectrums grouped together into one. I would point to all of the tests on embrace-autism’s website and how many of them are measuring different things. On some of the tests I score on the autistic side of the results, on others I don’t.

One area is social cues. The strengths of autism include things like having heightened sense, good memory, systemizing, attention to detail, and pattern recognition. For me I find that all of these things lead to me generally being BETTER than most people at recognizing social cues, and from previous discussions here there seems to be a population of people with a similar experience. But it seems that the majority of the autistic community finds that they are often oblivious to social cues.

I think that in the future, autism will be broken out into multiple sub-categories. Right now it’s just too broad.

I make the occasional connection with others who have similar profile of autistic traits to me, but there’s a lot of autistic people out there who are wildly different from me and I don’t feel that same connection.

Whatever is the most appropriate for the task at hand. Sometimes it makes sense to make your own.

I honestly am starting to think the anti-vaxx crowd has been astroturfed by pharmaceutical corporations in order to convince the general public that anyone who questions Big Pharma is some loomy who thinks vaccines cause autism wants to drink raw milk.

That’s why in rooting for a small mom and pop competitor to the space, like checks notes … Intel.

We’re fucked aren’t we?

I remember when I was a child and I first got experience with computers. I saw how file systems worked and thought to myself “wow I should structure my own mind this way so I can try to think as well as a computer can!”. I may have autism.

AI is the exact opposite. Taking something beautiful, clear, clean, organized, efficient, definitive. And inserting all the messy, sloppy, uncertain, unreproducible aspect of our bloody electric meat brains. It’s a move in the opposite direction of where I think humanity should be going.

What about 1870 then?

I don’t know the context for this microblog, but I don’t think whats happening in Iran is what he was thinking of when he said “digital horrors”.

I remember seeing footage of bombings from the Bosnian war in the 90’s. Well before digital video on the internet was popular, it was just on cable TV.

I don’t know Lauderdale personally, but he has a funny YouTube channel and seems cool enough that I’m gonna hold off on judging this without context.

As an aside, one of the most petty things I get annoyed at is how badly named and organized these things are. In all things.

Any sort of dark and somber low-fantasy game could be called a souls-like.

Heck, even the term RPG could apply to almost 80% of videogames. The history of exactly where it came from is a bit messy, but seems to have been used differentiate D&D from other tabletop games like poker or monopoly, or maybe even war games. It makes sense in that context, but I today’s context it’s hard to find a videogame that isn’t engaging in roleplay in some form. Yet we look to things like level and stat progression as being “RPG elements” even if they have nothing to do with roleplay at all.

It’s not just games. “Metal” music very rarely has anything to do with metals.

A lot of it is marketing. These labels make it easier to sell things. Having categories at all hells consumers find things they like or don’t like (such as OP). I just wish things were better-organized. I like things like Steam’s tag system a lot, but the tags themselves have been halhazardly cobbled together over decades of making words up and changing what they mean.

This situation is making oil more profitable for the other countries that produce it. Coincidentally, that includes the USA who started this mess, and who also kidnapped the leader of another oil producing country a couple months ago.

Climate change is a producer problem, and this price increase only hurts consumers.

A lot of people in the US still have states that don’t allow mail-in voting, and can’t get off work to vote. Those people are poor.

A lot of poor people voted against this. Didn’t matter- they still got it.

They’re going to suffer heavily. We can all try to do what we can to reduce the use of fossil fuels, but consumers have not had enough power to do anything meaningful at any point in my lifetime.

Rich people will still technically be affected, but yeah they aren’t going to go hungry.

I never claimed Uber was 100% safe. There’s also plenty of cases of non-sexual assault and robbery. There’s way more cases of simple negligent driving resulting in injury and death.

Uber’s own data indicates 99.9998% of trips in 2021-2022 were completed with no safety incident. Now if you want to discredit that self-reporting as biased, fair enough.

What would you say is the threshold for justifying gender segregation? 99.9999%? 99.99999%? 99.999999%?